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2013:
Stark, D.L., D.L. Wood, A.J. Storer, and S.L. Stephens. 2013. Prescribed fire and mechanical thinning effects on bark beetle caused tree mortality in a mid-elevation Sierran mixed-conifer forest. Forest Ecology and Management (in press).
Bell, Moritz, and Stephens. 2013. Short-term physiological effects of smoke on grapevine leaves. International Journal of Wildland Fire (in press).
Barros, A.M.G., J.M.C. Pereira, M.A. Moritz, and S.L. Stephens. 2013. Spatial Characterization of Wildfire Orientation Patterns in California. Forests
(4):197-217. (doi:10.3390/f4010197) [Download]
Jakubowski, M., Q. Guo, B. Collins, S. Stephens, and M. Kelly. 2013. Predicting surface fuel models and fuel metrics using lidar and CIR imagery in a dense, mountainous forest. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing 79(1):37-49.
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Gill, A.M., S.L. Stephens, and G.J. Carry. 2012. The world-wide wildfire problem. Ecological Applications (in press).
Fry, D.L., and S.L. Stephens. 2012. Seed viability and female cone characteristics of mature knobcone
pine trees. Western Journal of Applied Forestry (in press).
Krasnow, K.D., A.S. Halford, and S.L. Stephens. Aspen restoration in the eastern Sierra Nevada:
effectiveness of prescribed fire and conifer removal. Fire Ecology 8(3):104-118.
doi: 10.4996/fireecology.0803104.[Download]
McIver, J., S. Stephens, J. Agee, J. Barbour, R.
Boerner, C. Edminster, K. Erickson, K. Farris, C. Fettig, C. Fiedler, S. Haase, S. Hart, J.
Keeley, E. Knapp, J. Lehmkuhl, J. Moghaddas, W. Otrosina, K. Outcalt, D.
Schwilk, C. Skinner, T. Waldrop,
P. Weatherspoon, D. Yaussy, A. Youngblood, and S. Zack. Ecological effects of alternative fuel reduction treatments: highlights of the U.S. Fire and Fire Surrogate study
(FFS). International Journal of Wildland Fire. 2012. [Download]
North, M.P., B.M. Collins, and S.L. Stephens. 2012. Using fire to
increase the scale, benefits and future maintenance of fuels treatments.
Journal of Forestry 110(7):392-401. [Download].
Stephens, S.L., B.M. Collins, and G. Roller. 2012. Fuel treatment
longevity in a Sierra Nevada mixed conifer forest. Forest Ecology and
Management 285:204-212. [Download]
Miller, J.D., B.M. Collins, J.A. Lutz,
S.L. Stephens, J.W. van Wagtendonk, and D.A. Yasuda. 2012. Differences in wildfires among ecoregions and land management agencies in the Sierra Nevada region, California, USA. Ecosphere 3(9): art80. [Download]
Chiono, L.A., K.L. O’Hara, M.J. De Lasaux, G.A. Nader, and S.L.
Stephens. 2012. Development of vegetation and surface fuels following
fire hazard reduction treatment. Forests 2012 3:700-722.
(doi:10.3390/f3030700)
[Download]
Stephens, S.L., J.D. McIver, R.E.J. Boerner, C.J. Fettig, J.B. Fontaine,
B.R. Hartsough, P. Kennedy, and D.W. Schwilk. 2012. Effects of forest
fuel reduction treatments in the United States. BioScience 62:549-560. [Download]
Collins, B.M., and S.L. Stephens. 2012.
Fire and Fuels Reduction. In: North, M. (ed). Managing Sierra Nevada Forests.
USDA Forest Service, PSW General Technical Report. PSW-GTR-237. Pp. 1-12. [Download] Stephens, S.L., R.E.J. Boerner, J.J.
Moghaddas, E.E.Y. Moghaddas, B.M. Collins, C.B. Dow, C. Edminster, C.E. Fiedler, D.L. Fry, B. R.
Hartsough, J.E. Keeley, E.E. Knapp, J.D. McIver, C.N. Skinner, and A. Youngblood. 2012. Fuel
treatment impacts on estimated wildfire carbon loss from forests in Montana, Oregon, California, and Arizona.
Ecosphere 3(5):38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1890/ES11-00289.1. [Download] Fry, D.L., J. Dawson, and S.L. Stephens. 2012. Age and structure of mature knobcone pine forests in the northern California Coast Range, USA. Fire Ecology 8(1): 49-62. doi: 10.4996/fireecology.0801049. [Download]
Gibbons, P., L. van Bomme, A.M. Gill,
G.J. Cary, D.A. Driscoll, R.A. Bradstock, E. Knight, M.A. Moritz, S.L.
Stephens, and D.B. Lindenmayer. 2012. Land management practices associated
with house loss in wildfires. PLoS ONE 7(1):e29212. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0029212. [Download]
2011: Spies, T. A., D.B. Lindenmayer, A.M.
Gill, S.L. Stephens, and J.K. Agee. 2011. Challenges and a checklist for
biodiversity conservation in fire-prone forests: Perspectives from the Pacific
Northwest of USA and Southeastern Australia. Biological Conservation 145:5-14.
[Download].
Collins, B.M., S.L. Stephens, G.B.
Roller, and J.J. Battles. 2011. Simulating fire and forest dynamics for a
landscape fuel treatment project in the Sierra Nevada. Forest Science 57:77-88. [Download]
Evans, A.M., R.G. Everett, S.L.
Stephens, and J.A. Youtz. 2011. Comprehensive fuels treatment practices guide
for mixed conifer forests: California, Central and Southern Rockies, and the
Southwest. US Forest Service Forest Guild. [Download]
Collins, B.M., R.G.
Everett, and S.L. Stephens. 2011. Impacts of fire exclusion and recent managed
fire on forest structure in old growth Sierra Nevada mixed-conifer forests.
Ecosphere 2(4):art51. [Download]
Perry, D.A., P.F. Hessburg, C.N. Skinner, T.A. Spies, S.L. Stephens, A.H. Taylor, J.F. Franklin, B. McComb, G. Riegel. 2011. The ecology of mixed severity fire regimes in Washington, Oregon, and Northern California. Forest Ecology and Management 262:703-717. [Download]
Forrestel, A.B., M.A. Moritz, and S.L. Stephens. 2011. Landscape-scale vegetation change following fire in Point Reyes, California, USA. Fire Ecology 7(2):114-128. [Download]
2010:
Stephens, S.L., D.L. Fry, B.M. Collins, C.N. Skinner, E. Franco-Vizcaino, and T. J. Freed. 2010. Fire-scar formation in Jeffrey pine-mixed conifer forests in the Sierra San Pedro Mrtir, Mexico. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 40:1497-1505. [Download] Fry, D.L., and S.L. Stephens. 2010. Stand-level spatial dependence in an old-growth Jeffrey pine - mixed conifer forest, Sierra San Pedro Martir, Mexico. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 40:1830-1814. [Download] Moghaddas, J.J., B.M. Collins, K. Menning, E.E.Y. Moghaddas, and S.L. Stephens. 2010. Fuel treatment effects on modeled landscape-level fire behavior in the northern Sierra Nevada. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 40:1751-1765. [Download]
Mutch, R.W. M.J. Rogers, S.L. Stephens, and A.M. Gill. 2010. Protecting lives and property in the wildland urban interface: Communities in Montana and Southern California adopt Australian paradigm. Fire Technology DOI: 10.1007/s10694-010-0171-z. [Download] Collins, B.M., and S.L. Stephens. 2010. Stand-replacing patches within a mixed severity fire regime: quantitative characterization using recent fires in a long-established natural fire area. Landscape Ecology 25:927939. [Download] Stephens. S.L., C.I. Millar, and B.M. Collins. 2010. Operational approaches to managing forests of the future in Mediterranean regions within a context of changing climates. Environmental Research Letters 5: 024003. [Download]
Collins, B.M., S.L. Stephens, J.M. Moghaddas,
and J. Battles. 2010. Challenges and approaches in planning fuel treatments
across fire-excluded forested landscapes. Journal of Forestry 108: 24-31.
[Download]
Trouet, V., A.H. Taylor, E.R. Wahl, C.N. Skinner, and S.L. Stephens. 2010.
Fire-climate interactions in the American West since 1400 CE. Geophysical
Research Letters 37: doi:10.1029/2009GL041695 [Download]
Weise, D.R., S.L. Stephens, F.M. Fujioka,
T.J. Moody, and J. Benoit. 2010. Estimation of fire danger in Hawaii using
limited weather data and simulation. Pacific Science
64: 99-220. [Download]
McGinnis, T.W., J.E. Keeley, S.L. Stephens, and G.B. Roller. 2010. Fuel buildup
and potential fire behavior after stand-replacing fires, logging fire-killed
trees and herbicide shrub removal in Sierra Nevada forests. Forest Ecology and
Management 260:22-35. [Download]
Potts, J.B., E. Marino, and S.L. Stephens. 2010. Chaparral shrub recovery after fuel reduction: A comparison of prescribed fire and mastication techniques. Plant Ecology [Download].
York, R. A., D. Fuchs, J.J. Battles, and S.L. Stephens. 2010. Radial growth responses to gap creation in large, old Sequoiadendron giganteum. Applied Vegetation Science 13:498-509. [Download]
2009:
Skinner, C.N., C.S. Abbott, D.L. Fry, S.L. Stephens, A.H. Taylor, and V. Trouet. 2009. Human and climatic influences on fire occurrence in California's North Coast Range, USA. Fire Ecology. [Download]
Vaillant, N.M. and S. L. Stephens. 2009. Fire history of a lower elevation Jeffrey pine-mixed conifer forest. Fire Ecology . [Download]
North, M., K. Van de Water, S.L. Stephens, and B. Collins. 2009. Climate, rain shadow, and human-use influences on Eastern Sierra Nevada fire regimes. Fire Ecology . [Download]
Gill, A.M., and S.L. Stephens. 2009. Scientific and social
challenges for the management of fire-prone wildland-urban interfaces.
Environmental Research Letters 4 034014 [Download]
Padgett, K.A., S.L. Stephens, and B. Lane. 2009.
Effect of prescribed fire for tick control in California chaparral. Journal of
Medical Entomology. J. Med.
Entomol. 46(5): 1138Đ1145. [Download]
Stephens, S.L., J. Moghaddas, B. Hartsough, E. Moghaddas, and N. E. Clinton. 2009. Fuel treatment effects on stand level carbon pools, treatment related emissions, and fire risk in a Sierran mixed conifer forest. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 39: 1538-1547. [Download]
Vaillant, N. M., J. Fire-Kaufman, and S. L. Stephens . 2009. Effectiveness of prescribed fire as a fuel treatment in Californian coniferous forests. International Journal of Wildland Fire, 18:165-175. [Download]
North, M. P. Stine, K. O'Hara, W. Zielinski, and S. Stephens. 2009. An Ecosystems Management Strategy for Sierra Mixed-Conifer Forests. US Dept. Agriculture Forest Service Pacific Southwest Research Station. General Technical Report PSW-GTR-220 w/ addendum. 52 pages. [Download]
Potts, J. B., S. L. Stephens. 2009. Invasive and native plant responses to shrubland fuel reduction: comparing prescribed fire, mastication, and treatment season. Biological Conservation 142: 1657-1654 [Download]
Stephens, S.L., J.J. Moghaddas, C. Ediminster, C.E. Fiedler, S. Hasse, M.Harrington, J.E. Keeley, J.D. McIver, K. Metlen, C.N. Skinner, and A.Youngblood. 2009. Fire treatment effects on vegetation structure, fuels, and potential fire severity in western U.S. forests. Ecological Applications 19: 305-320. [Download]
McIver, J., A. Youngblood, and S.L. Stephens. 2009. The national Fire and Fire Surrogate study: ecological consequences of fuel reduction methods in seasonally dry forests. Ecological Applications 19: 283-284. [Download]
Krasnow, K., T. Schoennagel, T.T. Veblen. 2009. Forest fuel mapping and evaluation of LANDFIRE fuel maps in Boulder County, Colorado, USA. Forest Ecology and Management 257, 1603-1612. [Download]
Schwilk, D.W., J.E. Keeley, E.E. Knapp, J. McIver, J.D. Bailey, C.J.Fettig, C.E. Fiedler, R.J. Harrod, J.J. Moghaddas, K.W. Outcalt, C.N.Skinner, S.L. Stephens, T.A. Waldrop, D.A. Yaussy, and A. Youngblood. 2009. The national Fire and Fire Surrogate study: effects of fuel reduction methods on forest vegetation structure and fuels. Ecological Applications 19: 285-304. [Download]
Stephens S. L., M. Adams, J. Hadmer. F. Kearns, B. Leicester, J. Leonard, M. Moritz. 2009. Urban-wildland fires: how California and other regions of the US can learn from Australia Environmental Research Letters 4 014010 [Download]
Kobziar, L.N., S.L. Stephens, and J.R. McBride. 2009. The efficacy of fuels reduction treatments in a Sierra Nevada pine plantation. International Journal of Wildland Fire 18, 791–801. [Download]
Collins BM, Miller JD, Thode AE, Kelly M, van Wagtendonk JW, Stephens SL. 2009. Interactions among wildland fires in a long-established Sierra Nevada natural fire area. Ecosystems DOI: 10.1007/s10021-008-9211-7 [Download]
2008:
Fry D. 2008. Prescribed fire effects on deciduous oak woodland stand structure, northern Diablo Range, California. Rangeland Ecology and Management. 61(3): 294-301. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.2111/07-113.1 [Download]
Evett, R.R., C.R. Mohrle, B.L. Hall, T.J. Brown, and S.L. Stephens. 2008. The effect of monsoonal atmospheric moisture on lightning fire ignitions in southwestern North America. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 148:1478-1487. [Download]
Stephens, S.L., Weise, D.R., Fry, D.L., Keiffer, R.J., Dawson, J., Koo, E., Potts, J., and Pagni, P. 2008. Measuring the rate of spread of chaparral prescribed fires in northern California. Fire Ecology 4: 74-86. [Download]
Stephens S.L, Fry D, Franco-Vizcano E. 2008. Wildfire and forests in Northwestern Mexico: the United States wishes it had similar fire 'problems'. Ecology and Society. 13(2): 10 [Download]
Everett, R.G. 2008. Dendrochronology-based Fire History of Mixed Conifer
Forests in the San Jacinto Mountains, California. Forest Ecology and Management.
256 (2008) 1805-1814. [Download] Amacher, A.J., R.H. Barrett, J.J. Moghaddas, and S.L.
Stephens. 2008. Preliminary effects of fire and mechanical fuel treatments
on the abundance of small mammals in the mixed-conifer forest of the
Sierra Nevada. Forest Ecology and Management 255: 3193-3202 [Download] Moghaddas, E.E.Y., and S.L. Stephens. 2008. Mechanized
fuel treatment effects on soil compaction in Sierra Nevada mixed-conifer stands.
Forest Ecology and Management 255: 3098-3106. [Download] Moghaddas, J.J., R.A. York, and S.L. Stephens. 2008.
Initial response of conifer and California black oak seedlings following fuel
reduction activities in a Sierra Nevada mixed conifer forest. Forest Ecology and
Management 255: 3141-3150. [Download] Skinner, C.N., J.H. Burk, M. Barbour, E.
Franco-Vizcaino, and S.L. Stephens. 2008. Long-term influences of climate on
fire regimes in montane forests of northwestern Mexico. Journal of Biogeography
35(8):1436-1451. [Download] Hartsough, B.R., S. Abrams, R.J. Barbour, E.S. Drews,
J.D. McIver, J.J. Moghaddas, D.W. Schwilk, and S.L. Stephens. 2008. The
economics of alternative fuel reduction treatments in western United States dry
forests: financial and policy implications from the National Fire and Fire
Surrogate Study. Forest Economics and Policy. 10:344-354 [Download] McCaffery, S., J.J. Moghaddas, and S.L.
Stephens. 2008. Survey results from fire and fire surrogate fuel treatments in a
Sierran mixed conifer forest, California, USA. International Journal of Wildland
Fire. 17: 224-233 [Download] Collins, B.M., and S.L. Stephens. 2008. Tree scarring
patterns in Sierra Nevada wilderness areas burned by multiple wildland fire use
fires. Fire Ecology 3(2): 53-67. [Download] Moritz, M.A., and S.L. Stephens. 2008. Fire and
sustainability: considerations for California’s altered future climate. Climatic
Change 87 (Suppl 1):S265–S271. [Download] Fried, J.S., Gilles, J.K., Riley, W.J., Moody, T.J., de
Blas, C.S., K. Hayhoe, M. Moritz, S.L. Stephens, and M. Torn. 2008. Predicting
the effect of climate change on wildfire behavior and initial attack success
Climatic Change 87 (Suppl 1):S251–S264. [Download] 2007:
Collins, B.M. and S.L. Stephens. 2007. Managing Natural Fires in
Sierra Nevada Wilderness Areas. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
5(10): 523-52 [Download] Millar, C.I., N.L. Stephenson, and S.L.
Stephens. 2007. Climate change and forests of the future: managing
in the face of uncertainty. Ecological Applications 17(8): 2145-2151.
[Download] Stephens, S.L., R.E. Martin, and N.E.
Clinton. 2007. Prehistoric fire area and emissions from California's
forests, woodlands, shrublands and grasslands. Forest Ecology and
Management 251:205-216. [Download] Kaufmann, M. R., D. Binkley, P. Z. Fulé, M. Johnson, S. L.
Stephens, and T. W. Swetnam. 2007. Defining old growth for fire-adapted
forests of the western United States. Ecology and Society 12(2): 15. [Download] Youngblood, A., H. Bigler-Cole, C.J. Fettig,
C. Fiedler, E. E. Knapp, J.L. Lehmkuhl, K.W. Outcalt, C.N. Skinner, S.L.
Stephens, and T.H. Waldrop. 2007. Making Fire and Fire Surrogate Science
Available: A Summary of Regional Workshops With Clients. Department of
Agriculture Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station General Technical
Report PNW-GTR-727. [Download] Moghaddas, E. and S. L. Stephens. 2007.
Thinning, burning, and thin-burn fuel treatment effects
on soil properties in a Sierra Nevada mixed-conifer forest. Forest Ecology
and Management. 250:156-166. [Download]
Collins, B.M., N. K. Kelly,, J.W. van Wagtendonk, and
S.L. Stephens. 2007. Spatial patterns of large natural
fires in Sierra Nevada wilderness areas. Landscape Ecology 22:545-557. [Download]. Stephens, S.L., and
Collins, B.M. 2007. Fire policy in the urban-wildland interface in the United
States: What are the issues and possible solutions? In: Living on the edge:
economics, institutional and management perspectives on wildfire hazards in the
urban interface. Advances in the Economics of Environmental Resources, Vol. 6.
Elsevier Ltd. [Download]. Evett, R., Franco-Vizcaino, E.,
and Stephens, S.L. 2007. Comparing modern and past fire regimes to assess
changes in prehistoric lightning and anthropogenic ignitions in a Jeffrey
pine-mixed conifer forest in the Sierra San Pedro Martir, Mexico. Canadian
Journal of Forest Research 37: 318-330. [Download]. Menning, K.M., and Stephens, S.L.
2007. Fire climbing in the forest: a semi-qualitative, semi-quantitative
approach to assessing ladder fuel hazards. Western Journal of Applied Forestry
22(2): 88-93. [Download]. Evett, R., Franco-Vizcaino, E., and Stephens, S.L. 2007. Phytolith evidence for the absence of a prehistoric grass understory in a
Jeffrey pine-mixed conifer forest in the Sierra San Pedro Martir, Mexico.
Canadian Journal of Forest Research 37:306-317. [Download]. Schmidt, L., Hille, M.G., and
Stephens, S.L., 2007. Restoring northern Sierra Nevada
mixed conifer forest composition and structure with prescribed fire. Fire
Ecology 2(2):204-217. [Download]. Stephens, S.L., Fry, D. L.,
Franco-Vizcaino, E., Collins, B.M., and Moghaddas, J.J. 2007. Coarse woody
debris and canopy cover in an old-growth Jeffrey pine-mixed conifer forest from
the Sierra San Pedro Martir, Mexico. Forest Ecology and Management 240: 87-95. [Download] Collins, B. M., Moghaddas, J.
J., and Stephens, S. L. 2007. Initial changes in forest structure and understory
plant community following fuel reduction activities in a Sierra Nevada mixed
conifer forest. Forest Ecology and Management 239: 102-111. [Download] Kobziar, L., Moghaddas, J. J., and Stephens, S. L.
2007. Tree mortality patterns following prescribed fires in a mixed conifer
forest. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 36:3222-3228. [Download]. 2006: Apigian, K., D. Dahlsten, and
S.L. Stephens. 2006. Biodiversity of Coleoptera and the importance of habitat
structural features in a Sierra Nevada mixed-conifer forest. Environmental
Entomology 35: 964-975.[Download] Kobziar, L., and Stephens, S.
L. 2006. The effects of fuels treatments on soil carbon respiration in a Sierra
Nevada pine plantation. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 141: 161-178. [Download]
Moody, T.J., Fites-Kaufman,
J., and Stephens, S.L. 2006. Fire history and climate influences from forests in
the northern Sierra Nevada, USA. Fire Ecology 2: 115-141.[Download] Stephens, S.L., Sugihara, N.G., 2006. Fire management and
policy since European settlement. Sugihara, NG, van Wagtendonk, J, Shaffer, KE ,
Fites-Kaufman, J, , Thode, AE, editors. Fire in California’s ecosystems.
California: University of California Press. Berkeley. Pp. 431-443. [Download] Husari, S., Nichols, T., Sugihara, N.G. Stephens, S.L.,
2006. Fuel management. Sugihara, NG, van Wagtendonk, J, Shaffer, KE , Fites-Kaufman,
J, , Thode, AE, editors. Fire in California’s ecosystems. California: University
of California Press. Berkeley. Pp. 444-465.[Download] Stuart, J., Stephens, S.L.,
2006. North coast California bioregion. Sugihara, NG, van Wagtendonk, J,
Shaffer, KE , Fites-Kaufman, J, , Thode, AE, editors. Fire in California’s
ecosystems. California: University of California Press. Berkeley. Pp. 147-169. [Download] Stephens, S.L., and W.J. Libby.
2006. Anthropogenic fire and bark thickness in coastal and island pine
populations from Alta and Baja California. Journal of Biogeography 33: 648-652.
(See Erratum on next line for a corrected Figure 1) [Download] Stephens, S.L., and W.J.
Libby. 2006. ERRATUM FOR: Anthropogenic fire and bark thickness in coastal and
island pine populations from Alta and Baja California. Journal of Biogeography
33: 760. [Erratum
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fire history of a Ponderosa pine-mixed conifer forest in the southeastern Klamath
Mountains, California. Forest Ecology and Management . 223: 428-438. [Download] Apigian, K., D. Dahlsten, and S.L. Stephens. 2006. Fire and fire surrogate
treatment effects on leaf litter arthropods in a western Sierra Nevada
mixed-conifer forest. Forest Ecology and Management 221:110-122. [Download] 2005:
Stephens, S.L., and P.Z. Fule. 2005. Western pine forests with continuing
frequent fire regimes: Possible reference sites for management. Journal of
Forestry 103(7): 357-362. [Download]
Stephens, S.L., and D. R. Fry. 2005. Spatial distribution of regeneration patches
in an old-growth Pinus jeffreyi-mixed conifer forest in northwestern
Mexico. Journal of Vegetation Science 16:693-702. [Download]
Beche, L.A., S.L. Stephens, and V.H. Resh. 2005. Prescribed fire effects on a riparian and stream community in the Sierra Nevada: Dark Canyon Creek, California, USA. Forest Ecology and Management 218:37-59 [Download].
Stephens, S.L. and J.J. Moghaddas. 2005. Silvicultural and reserve impacts on potential fire behavior and forest conservation: 25 years of experience from Sierra Nevada mixed conifer forests. Biological Conservation 25:369-379. [Download]
Stephens, S.L. and J.J. Moghaddas. 2005. Fuel treatment effects on snags and coarse woody debris in a Sierra Nevada mixed conifer forest. Forest Ecology and Management 214:53-64. [Download]
Stephens, S.L. and J.J. Moghaddas. 2005. Experimental fuel treatment impacts on
forest structure, potential fire behavior, and predicted tree mortality in a
mixed conifer forest. Forest Ecology and Management 215:21-36. [Download]
Hille, M.G., and S.L. Stephens. 2005. Mixed conifer forest duff
consumption during prescribed fires: tree crown impacts. Forest Science 51(5):
417-424. [Download] Stephens, S.L. 2005. Forest fire causes and extent on United
States Forest Service Lands. International Journal of Wildland Fire 14(213-222.
[Download] Youngblood, A., K.L. Metlen, E. Knapp, K.W. Outcalt, S.L.
Stephens, T.A. Waldrop, and D. Yaussy. 2005. Implementation of the Fire and Fire
Surrogate Study A national research effort to evaluate the consequences of fuel
reduction treatments. In: Peterson, C.E., and Maguire, D.A. (eds).
Balancing ecosystem values: innovative experiments for sustainable forestry.
USFS Gen. Tech. Rep. PNW-GTR-635. Portland, OR. Pp. 315-323. [Download]
Purcell, K., and S.L. Stephens. 2005. Changing fire regimes and the avifauna of
California oak woodlands. Studies in Avian Biology. 30:33-45 [Download] Stephens, S.L., & D.L. Fry. 2005. Fire history in coast
redwood stands in the Northeastern Santa Cruz Mountains, California. Fire
Ecology 1(1):2-19. [Download]. Stephens, S.L. and Gill, S.J. 2005. Forest structure and mortality in an
old-growth Jeffrey pine-mixed conifer forest in northwestern Mexico. Forest
Ecology and Management.. 205:15-28. [Download] Stephens, S.L. and Ruth, L.W. 2005. Federal forest fire policy in the United
States. Ecological Applications, 15(2):532-542 [Download] 2004:
Knapp, E.E., S.L. Stephens, J.D. McIver, J.J. Moghaddas, and J.E.
Keeley. 2004. The Fire and Fire Surrogate Study in the Sierra Nevada: Evaluating
restoration treatments at Blodgett Experimental Forest and Sequoia National
Park. In: Murphy, D.D., and Stine, P.A. (eds.), Proceedings
of the Sierra Nevada Science Symposium, Tahoe
City, CA. USFS PSW General Technical Report PSW-GTR-193. pp. 79-85. [Download]
Purcell, K., and S.L. Stephens. 2005. Natural and anthropogenic fire regimes,
vegetation effects, and potential impacts on the avifauna of California’s oak
woodlands. USFS General Technical Report PSW-191 [Download]
Skinner, C.N., and S.L. Stephens. 2004. Fire in the Sierra Nevada. Proceedings
of the Sierra Nevada Science Symposium, Tahoe City, CA. USFS PSW General
Technical Report. PSW-GTR-193. pp. 65-68. [Download]
Stephens, S.L., Piirto, D.D., and D.F. Caramagno, 2004. Fire
regimes and resultant forest structure in the native Ano Nuevo
Monterey pine (Pinus radiata) forest, California. American Midlland
Naturalist 152: 25-36. [Download]
Stephens, S.L., Finney, M.A., and Schantz, H. 2004. Bulk density and fuel loads of ponderosa pine and white fir forest floors: impacts of leaf morphology. Northwest Science 78: 93-100. [Download]
Stephens, S.L. 2004. Fuel loads, snag density, and snag recruitment in an unmanaged Jeffrey pine-mixed conifer forest in northwestern Mexico. Forest Ecology and Management 199: 103-113. [Download]
Stephens, S.L. and Collins, B.M. 2004. Fire regimes of mixed conifer forests in the north-central Sierra Nevada at multiple spatial scales. Northwest Science 78: 12-23. [Download]
Stephens, S.L., Meixner, T., Poth, M., McGurk, B, Payne, D. 2004. Prescribed fire, soils, and stream water chemistry in a watershed in the Lake Tahoe Basin. International Journal of Wildland Fire 13: 27-35. [Download]
2000 - 2003:
Stephens, S.L., Skinner, C.N., Gill, S.J., 2003. Dendrochronology-based fire history of Jeffrey pine-mixed conifer forests in the Sierra San Pedro Martir, Mexico. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 33:1090-1101. [Download]
Stephens, S.L., and M.A. Finney, 2002. Prescribed Fire Mortality of Sierra Nevada Mixed Conifer Tree Species: Effects of Crown Damage and Forest Floor Combustion. Forest Ecology and Management 162: 261-271. [Download]
Stephens, S.L. 2001, Fire History of Adjacent Jeffrey pine and Upper Montane Forests in the Eastern Sierra Nevada. International Journal of Wildland Fire 10:161-176. [Download]
Stephens, S.L. 2000. Mixed Conifer and Upper Montane Forest Structure and Uses in 1899 from the Central and Northern Sierra Nevada, CA. Madrono, vol. 47, no. 1, pp. 43-52. [Download]
1993 - 1999:
Stephens, S.L, D. Dulitz, and R.E. Martin, 1999. Giant Sequoia Regeneration in Group Selection Openings in the Southern Sierra Nevada. Forest Ecology and Management vol. 120, no. 1-3, pp. 89-95. [Download]
Stephens, S.L., and D.L. Elliott-Fisk. 1998. Sequoiadendron giganteum-Mixed Conifer Forest Structure in 1900-1901 from the Southern Sierra Nevada, CA. Madrono, 45:221-230. [Download]
Stephens, S.L. 1998. Evaluation of the effects of silvicultural and fuels treatments on potential fire behaviour in Sierra Nevada mixed-conifer forests. Forest Ecology and Management 105, no. 1-3, pp.21-34. [Download]
Stephens, S.L. 1997. Fire History of a Mixed Oak-Pine Forest in the Foothills of the Sierra Nevada, El Dorado County, California. Symposium on Oak Woodlands: Ecology, Management, and Urban Interface Issues. USDA Forest Service General Technical Report-PSW GTR-160, pp 191-198. [Download] [Download link to Entire General Technical Report GTR-160 ]
Elliott-Fisk, D.L, S.L. Stephens, J.A. Aubert, D. Murphy, J. Schaber. 1997. Mediated Settlement Agreement for Sequoia National Forest- Giant Sequoia Groves, an Evaluation. Sierra Nevada Ecosystem Project. Addendum (Davis: University of California, Centers for Water and Wildland Resources). pp. 277-328. [Download]
Elliott-Fisk, D.L, T.C. Cahill, O.K. Davis, L. Duan, C.R. Goldman, G.E. Gruell, R. Harris, R. Kattelmann, R. Lacey, D. Leisz, S. Lindstrom, D. Machida, R.A. Rowntree, P. Rucks, D.A. Sharkey, S.L. Stephens, and D.S Ziegler. 1997. Lake Tahoe case study. Sierra Nevada Ecosystem Project. Addendum (Davis: University of California, Centers for Water and Wildland Resources). pp. 217-276. [Download]
Stephens, S.L., Molina D. M., Carter, R., Martin, R. E.. 1995. Comparison of fuel load, structural characteristics, and infrastructure before and after the Oakland Hills Tunnel fire. Biswell Symposium, USDA PSW General Technical Report-158 . pp.189-191 [Download]
Stephens, S.L., D. Gordon, and R.E. Martin. 1993. Combustion characteristics of domestic vegetation found in the urban/wildland interface of California. Proceeding of the 12th International Conference on Fire and Forest Meteorology, Society of American Foresters, Jekyl Island, Georgia. pp. 565-571. [Download]
Appendices & Databases:
FOR: Apigian, K., D. Dahlsten, and S.L. Stephens. 2005. Fire and fire surrogate treatment effects on leaf litter arthropods in a western Sierra Nevada mixed-conifer forest:
Appendix 1: Coleoptera collected over the course of fire and fire surrogate study on effects on leaf litter arthropods [Download]
Appendix 1: Species Collected & Total Abundance during fire and fire surrogate study on effects on leaf litter arthropods . [Download]
Appendix 2: Ant Genera and Species collected over the fire and fire surrogate study on effects on leaf litter arthropods. [Download]
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