Wildfire exclusion over the past century or more has resulted in extensive fuel accumulations throughout much of the West that combined with recent climatic patterns have increased the frequency of relatively...

To the best of our knowledge, one or more authors of this paper were federal employees when contributing to this work.

Fuel management has been used as an effective local strategy to reduce the

Several large wildfires in southwestern Oregon during the summers of 2001 and 2002 provided the opportunity to investigate the impacts of wildfire on northern spotted owls (Strix occidentalis caurina). I used...