Publications

A complete list of Dr. Collins’ publications can be found on Google Scholar.

Articles and associated research briefs (if applicable) are available for individuals to download. Do not distribute widely. If a paper does not have a PDF, email Brandon Collins and he will share a copy. 

2022

Bernal, A.A., S.L. Stephens, B.M. Collins, J.J. Battles. 2022. Biomass stocks in California’s fire-prone forests: mismatch in ecology and policy. Environmental Research Letters 17(4): 044047. PDF.

Levine, J.I., B.M. Collins, Z.L. Steel, P. de Valpine, S.L. Stephens. 2022. Higher incidence of high-severity fire in and near industrially managed forests. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. PDF.

Margolis, E.Q., et al. The North American tree-ring fire-scar network. Ecosphere 13:e4159. PDF.

North, M.P., R.E. Tompkins, A.A. Bernal, B.M. Collins, S.L. Stephens, R.A. York. 2022. Operational resilience in western US frequent-fire forests. Forest Ecology and Management 507: 120004. PDF. Research Brief. 

Steel, Z.L., G.M. Jones, B.M. Collins, R. Green, A. Koltunov, K.L. Purcell, S.C. Sawyer, M.R. Slaton, S.L. Stephens, P. Stine, and C.M. Thompson. 2022. Mega-disturbances cause rapid decline of mature conifer forest habitat in California. Ecological Applications. PDF.

Stephens, S.L. A.A. Bernal, B.M. Collins, M.A. Finney, C. Lautenberger, D. Saah. 2022. Mass fire behavior created by extensive tree mortality and high tree density not predicted by operational fire behavior models in the southern Sierra Nevada. Forest Ecology and Management 518: 120258. PDF.

York, R., J. Levine, D. Foster, S. Stephens, B. Collins. 2022. Silviculture can facilitate repeat prescribed burn programs with long-term strategies. California Agriculture 75(3): 104-111. PDF.

2021

Cabiyo, B., J.S. Fried, B.M. Collins, W. Stewart, J. Wong, D.L. Sanchez. 2021. Innovative wood use can enable carbon-beneficial forest management in California. PNAS 118(49). PDF.

Collins, B.M., A. Bernal, R. A. York, J.T. Stevens, A. Juska, S.L. Stephens. 2021. Mixed-conifer forest reference conditions for privately owned timberland in the southern Cascade Range. Ecological Applications 31(7): e02400. PDF.

Jaffe, M.R., B.M. Collins, J. Levine, H. Northrop, F. Malandra, D. Krofcheck, M.D. Hurteau, S.L. Stephens, and M. North. 2021. Prescribed fire shrub consumption in a Sierra Nevada mixed-conifer forest. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 51(11): 1718-1725. PDF.

Low, K.E., B.M.Collins, A. Bernal, J.E. Sanders, D. Pastor, P. Manley, A.M.White, S.L. Stephens. 2021. Longer-term impacts of fuel reduction treatments on forest structure, fuels, and drought resistance in the Lake Tahoe Basin. Forest Ecology and Management 479: 118609. PDF. Research Brief.

Merriam, K.E., M. Coppoletta, A.M. White, B.M. Collins, S.E. Gross. 2021. Postfire Restoration Framework. Gen. Tech. Rep. PSW-GTR-270. Albany, CA: US Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station: 31-45. Chapter 2. PDF.

Moore, I.B., B.M. Collins, D.E. Foster, R.E. Tompkins, J.T. Stevens, S.L. Stephens. 2021. Variability in wildland fuel patches following high-severity fire and post-fire treatments in the northern Sierra Nevada. International Journal of Wildland Fire 30(12): 921-932. PDF. Research Brief.

North, M.P., R.A. York, B.M. Collins, M.D. Hurteau, G.M. Jones, E.E. Knapp, L. Kobziar, H. McCann, M.D. Meyer, S.L. Stephens, R.E. Tompkins, C.L. Tubbesing. 2021. Pyrosilviculture needed for landscape resilience of dry western United States forests. Journal of Forestry 119(5): 520-544. PDF. Research Brief.

Steel, Z. L., B.M. Collins, D.B. Sapsis, and S.L. Stephens. 2021. Quantifying pyrodiversity and its drivers. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 288(1948): 20203202. PDF.

Steel, Z.L., D. Foster, M. Coppoletta, J.M. Lydersen, S.L. Stephens, A. Paudel, S.H. Markwith, K. Merriam, B.M. Collins. 2021. Ecological resilience and vegetation transition in the face of two successive large wildfires. Journal of Ecology 109(9): 3340-3355. 

Stephens, S.L., M.A. Battaglia, D.J. Churchill, B.M. Collins, M. Coppoletta, C.M. Hoffman, J.M. Lydersen, M.P. North, R.A. Parsons, S.M. Ritter, J.T. Stevens. 2021. Forest restoration and fuels reduction: Convergent or divergent? Bioscience 71(1): 85-101. PDF. Research Brief.

Stephens, S.L., S. Thompson, G. Boisrame, B.M. Collins, L.C. Ponisio, E. Rakhmatulina, Z.L. Steel, J.T. Stevens, J.W. van Wagtendonk, K. Wilkin. 2021. Fire, water, and biodiversity in the Sierra Nevada: a possible triple win. Environmental Research Communications 3(8): 081004. PDF.

Wilkin, K., L. Ponisio, D.L. Fry, B.M. Collins, T. Moody, and S.L. Stephens. 2021. Drivers of understory plant communities in Sierra Nevada mixed conifer forests with pyrodiversity. Fire Ecology 17(1): 1-18. PDF.

Ziegler, J.P., C.M. Hoffman, B.M. Collins, E.E. Knapp, W. Mell. 2021. Pyric tree spatial patterning interactions in historical and contemporary mixed conifer forests, California, USA. Ecology and Evolution 11(2): 820-834. PDF.

2020

Coop, J.D., S.A. Parks, C. Stevens-Rumann, S.D. Crausbay, P.E. Higuera, M.D Hurteau, A. Tepley, E. Whitman, T. Assal, B.M. Collins et al. 2020. Wildfire-driven forest conversion in western North American landscapes. BioScience 70(8): 659-673. PDF.

Foster, D.E., J.J. Battles, B.M. Collins, R.A. York, S.L. Stephens. 2020. Potential wildfire and carbon stability in frequent-fire forests in the Sierra Nevada: trade-offs from a long-term study. Ecosphere 11(8): e03198. PDF. 

Levine, J.I., B.M. Collins, R.A. York, D.E. Foster, D.L. Fry, S.L. Stephens. 2020. Forest stand and site characteristics influence fuel consumption in repeat prescribed burns. International Journal of Wildland Fire 29(2) 148-159. PDF. Research Brief.

Ma, Q., R.C. Bales, J. Rungee, M.H. Conklin, B.M. Collins, M.L. Goulden. 2020. Wildfire controls on evapotranspiration in California’s Sierra Nevada. Journal of Hydrology 590: 125364. PDF.

Povak, N.A., V.R. Kane, B.M. Collins, J.M. Lydersen, J.T. Kane. 2020. Multi-scale drivers of severity patterns vary across land ownerships for the 2013 Rim Fire, California. Landscape Ecology 35(2): 293-318. PDF.

Schwartz, M.W., J.H. Thorne, B.M. Collins, P.A. Stine. 2020. “Forest mismanagement” misleads. Science 370(6515): 417-417. 

Stephens, C.W., B.M. Collins, J. Rogan. 2020. Land ownership impacts post-wildfire forest regeneration in Sierra Nevada mixed-conifer forests. Forest Ecology and Management 468: 118161. PDF.

Stevens, J.T., G. F. S. Boisramé, E. Rakhmatulina, S.E. Thompson, B.M. Collins, S.L. Stephens. 2020. Forest vegetation change and its impacts on soil water following 47 years of managed wildfire. Ecosystems 23: 1547–1565. PDF.

Ziegler, J.P., C.M. Hoffman, B.M. Collins, J.W. Long, C.M. Dagley, W. Mell. 2020. Simulated fire behavior and fine-scale forest structure following conifer removal in aspen-conifer forests in the Lake Tahoe Basin, USA. Fire 3(3): 51.

2019

Collins, B.M., J.D Miller, E.E. Knapp, D.B. Sapsis. 2019. A quantitative comparison of forest fires in central and northern California under early (1911-1924) and contemporary (2002-2015) fire suppression. International Journal of Wildland Fire 28(2): 138-148. PDF. 

Collins, B.M., S.L. Stephens, R.A. York. 2019. Perspectives from a long-term study of fuel reduction and forest restoration in the Sierra Nevada. Tree Rings 29: 7-9. PDF.

Hessburg P.F., C.L. Miller, S.A. Parks, N.A. Povak, A.H. Taylor, P.E. Higuera, S.J. Prichard, M.P. North, B.M. Collins, et al. 2019. Climate, environment, and disturbance history govern resilience of Western North American Forests. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 7: 239. PDF.

Hu, T. Q,. Ma, Y. Su, J.J.Battles, B.M.Collins, S.L. Stephens, M. Kelly, Q. Guo. 2019. A simple and integrated approach for fire severity assessment using bi-temporal airborne LiDAR data. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation 78: 25-38.

Kane, V.R., B.N. Barti-Geller, M.P. North, J.T. Kane, J. M. Lydersen, S.M.A. Jeronimo, B.M. Collins, L.M. Moskai. 2019. First-entry wildfires can create opening and tree clump patterns characteristic of resilient forests. Forest Ecology and Management 454: 117659. PDF. Research Brief.

Levine, C. R., C. V. Cogbill, B. M. Collins, A. J. Larson, J. A. Lutz, M. P. North, C. M. Restaino, H. D. Safford, S. L. Stephens, J. J. Battles. 2019. Estimating historical forest density from land-survey data: a response to Baker and Williams (2018). Ecological Applications 29(8):e01968. PDF.

Lydersen, J.M., B.M. Collins, M. Coppoletta, M.R. Jaffe, H. Northrop, S.L. Stephens. 2019. Fuel dynamics and reburn severity following high-severity fire in a Sierra Nevada, USA, mixed-conifer forest. Fire Ecology 15(1): 1-14. PDF.

Lydersen, J.M., B.M. Collins, C.T. Hunsaker. 2019. Implementation constraints limit benefits of restoration treatments in mixed-conifer forests. International Journal of Wildland Fire 28(7): 495-511. PDF.

Stephens, S.L., Kobziar, L.N., Collins, B.M., Davis, R., Fulé, P.Z., Gaines, W., Ganey, J., Guldin, J.M., Hessburg, P., Hiers, K., Hoagland, S., Keane, J.J., Masters, R.E., McKellar, A.E., Montague, W., North, M., Spies, T.A. 2019. Is fire for the birds? How two rare species influence fire management across the United States. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 17: 391–399.

Tubbesing, C.L., D.L. Fry, G.B.Roller, B.M. Collins, V.A. Fedorova, S.L. Stephens, J.J. Battles. 2019. Strategically placed landscape fuel treatments decrease fire severity and promote recovery in the northern Sierra Nevada. Forest Ecology and Management 436, 45–55. PDF.

2018

Collins, B.M. J.M. Lydersen, R.G. Everett, S.L. Stephens. 2018. How does forest recovery following moderate-severity fire influence effects of subsequent wildfire in mixed-conifer forests? Fire Ecology 14:3. PDF.

Fry, D.L., J.T. Stevens, A.T. Potter, B.M. Collins, B.M., S.L. Stephens. 2018. Surface fuel accumulation and decomposition in old-growth pine-mixed conifer forests, northwestern Mexico. Fire Ecology. 14, 1:15. PDF.

Hagmann, R.K., J.T. Stevens, J. Lydersen, B.M. Collins, J.J. Battles, P.F. Hessburg, C.R. Levine, A.G. Merschel, S.L. Stephens, A.H. Taylor, J.F. Franklin, D.L. Johnson, K.N. Johnson. 2018. Improving the use of early timber inventories in reconstructing historical dry forests and fire in the western United States: Comment. Ecosphere 9: e02232. PDF.

Kelly, M., Y. Su, S. Di Tommaso, D. Fry, B. Collins, S. Stephens, Q. Guo. 2018. Impact of Error in Lidar-Derived Canopy Height and Canopy Base Height on Modeled Wildfire Behavior in the Sierra Nevada, California, USA. Remote Sensing, 10(1): 10. 

Lydersen, J.M., and B.M. Collins. 2018. Change in vegetation patterns over a large forested landscape based on historical and contemporary photography. Ecosystems 21(7): 1348-1363. PDF.

Omi, P.N., B.M. Collins, and S.L. Stephens. 2018. Forestry and US Forest Service fire management: Moving beyond conventional practices. In: 193 Million Acres: Toward a Healthier and More Resilient US Forest Service (S.W. Wilent editor). Society of American Foresters, Bethesda, Maryland. Pgs. 105-128.

Stephens, S.L., B.M. Collins, C.J. Fettig, M.A. Finney, M.A.,C.M. Hoffman, E.E. Knapp, M.P. North, H. Safford, R.B. Wayman. 2018. Drought, tree mortality, and wildfire in forests adapted to frequent fire. BioScience 68: 77–88. PDF.

Stephens, S.L., J. T Stevens, B.M. Collins, R.A. York, J.M. Lydersen. 2018. Historical and modern landscape forest structure in fir (Abies)-dominated mixed conifer forests in the northern Sierra Nevada, USA. Fire Ecology 14: 7. PDF.

Stephens, S.L. S.J. Husari, H.T. Nichols, N.G. Sugihara, B.M. Collins. 2018. Fire and Fuel Management. In: Fire in California Ecosystems, 2nd Edition. van Wagtendonk, J., N.G. Sugihara, S.L. Stephens, A.E. Thode, K.E. Shaffer, and J. Fites-Kaufman (Editors). University of California Press, Berkeley, CA. Pgs. 411-428.

Stephens, S.L., M. Maier, L. Gonen, J.D. York, B.M. Collins, D.L. Fry. 2018. Variation in fire scar phenology from mixed conifer trees in the Sierra Nevada. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 48: 101–104. PDF.

2017

Chiono, L.A., D.L. Fry, B.M. Collins, A.H. Chatfield, S.L. Stephens. 2017. Landscape-scale fuel treatment and wildfire impacts on carbon stocks and fire hazard in California spotted owl habitat. Ecosphere, 8(1) e01648. PDF.

Collins, B.M., D.L. Fry, J.M. Lydersen, R. Everett, S.L. Stephens. 2017. Impacts of different land management histories on forest change. Ecological Applications 27: 2475–2486. PDF.

Collins, B. M., J.T. Stevens, J.D. Miller, S.L. Stephens, P.M. Brown, M.P. North. 2017. Alternative characterization of forest fire regimes: incorporating spatial patterns. Landscape Ecology.  PDF.

Knapp, E.E., J.M. Lydersen, M.P. North, B.M. Collins. 2017. Efficacy of variable density thinning and prescribed fire for restoring forest heterogeneity to mixed-conifer forests in the central Sierra Nevada, CA. Forest Ecology and Management 406: 28-36. PDF.

Levine, C.R., C.V. Cogbill, B.M. Collins, A.J. Larson, J.A. Lutz, M.P. North, C.M. Restaino, H.D. Safford, S.L. Stephens, J.J. Battles. 2017. Evaluating a new method for reconstructing forest conditions from General Land Office survey records. Ecological Applications 27(5): 1498-1513.  PDF.

Lydersen, J.M., B.M. Collins, M.L. Brooks, J.R. Matchett, K.L. Shive, N.A. Povak, V.R. Kane, D.F. Smith. 2017. Evidence of fuels management and fire weather influencing fire severity in an extreme fire event. Ecological Applications 27(7): 2013-2030. PDF.

North, M.P., M.W. Schwartz, B.M. Collins, J.J. Keane. 2017. Current and projected condition of mid-elevation Sierra Nevada forests. Gen Tech. Rep. PSW-GTR-254. Albany, CA: US Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station: 109-157. PDF.

Stevens, J.T., B.M. Collins, J.D. Miller, M.P. North, S.L. Stephens. 2017. Changing spatial patterns of stand-replacing fire in California conifer forests. Forest Ecology and Management 406: 28-36. PDF.

2016

Boisramé, G., S. Thompson, B. Collins, S. Stephens. 2016. Managed Wildfire Effects on Forest Resilience and Water in the Sierra Nevada. Ecosystems. PDF. Research Brief. 

Collins, B.M., J.M. Lydersen, D.L. Fry, K. Wilkin, T. Moody, S.L. Stephens. 2016. Variability in vegetation and surface fuels across mixed-conifer-dominated landscapes with over 40 years of natural fire. Forest Ecology and Management 381, 74–83. PDF.

Coppoletta, M., K.E. Merriam, B.M. Collins. 2016. Post-fire vegetation and fuel development influences fire severity patterns in reburns. Ecological Applications 26(3): 686-699. PDF. Research Brief.

Dore, S. D. L. Fry, B. M. Collins, R. Vargas, R. A. York, S. L. Stephens. 2016. Management Impacts on Carbon Dynamics in a Sierra Nevada Mixed Conifer Forest. PLoS One 9(2): e0150256. PDF.

Dow, C.B., B.M. Collins, S.L. Stephens. 2016. Incorporating resource protection constraints in an analysis of landscape fuel treatment effectiveness in the northern Sierra Nevada, CA, USA. Environmental Management 57: 516-530. PDF.

Hessburg, P.F., T. A. Spies, D. A. Perry, C. N. Skinner, A. H. Taylor, P. M. Brown, S. L. Stephens, A. J. Larson, D. J. Churchill, N. A. Povak, P. H. Singleton, B. McComb, W. J. Zielinski, B. M. Collins, R. B. Salter, J. J. Keane, J. F. Franklin, G. Riegel. 2016. Tamm Review: Management of mixed-severity fire regime forests in Oregon, Washington, and Northern California. Forest Ecology and Management 366: 221–250. PDF.

Kramer, H. A., B.M. Collins, C.V. Gallagher, J.J. Keane, S.L. Stephens, M. Kelly. 2016. Accessible light detection and ranging: estimating large tree density for habitat identification. Ecosphere, 7(12): December. PDF.

Lydersen, J. M., B.M. Collins, J.D. Miller, D.L. Fry, S.L. Stephens. 2016. Relating fire-caused change in forest structure to remotely sensed estimates of fire severity. Fire Ecology 12(3): 99–116. PDF.

North, M.P., B.M. Collins, H. Safford, N.L. Stephenson. 2016. Montane Forests. In: Mooney, H., E. Zavaleta eds. Ecosystems of California: Berkeley, CA: University of California Press: 553-577. Chapter 27. PDF.

Paige Fischer, A., T.A. Spies, T.A. Steelman, C. Moseley, B.R. Johnson, J.D. Bailey, A.A. Ager, P. Bourgeron, S. Charnley, B.M. Collins, et al. 2016. Wildfire risk as a socioecological pathology. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 14(5): 276-284. PDF. Research Brief.

Stephens, S. L., B. M. Collins, E. Biber, P. Z. Fulé. 2016. U.S. federal fire and forest policy: emphasizing resilience in dry forests. Ecosphere 7(11): e01584. PDF

Stephens, S.L., J.D. Miller, B.M. Collins, M.P. North, J.J. Keane, S.L.Roberts. 2016. Wildfire impacts on California spotted owl nesting habitat in the Sierra Nevada. Ecosphere 7(October), 1–21. PDF. Research Brief. 

Stevens, J.T., B.M. Collins, J.W. Long, M.P. North, S.J. Prichard, L.W. Tarnay, A.M. White. 2016. Evaluating potential trade-offs among fuel treatment strategies in mixed-conifer forests of the Sierra Nevada. Ecosphere 7(9): e01445. PDF. 

Su, Y., Q. Guo, B.M. Collins, D.L. Fry, T. Hu, M. Kelly. 2016. Forest fuel treatment detection using multi-temporal airborne lidar data and high resolution aerial imagery: a case study in the Sierra Nevada, California. International Journal of Remote Sensing 37(14): 3322-3345. PDF.

Su, Y., Q. Guo, D.L. Fry, B.M. Collins, M. Kelly, J.P. Flanagan, J.J. Battles. 2016. A vegetation mapping strategy for conifer forests by combining airborne LiDAR data and aerial imagery. Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing 42(1): 1-15. PDF.

2015

Collins, B.M., Lydersen, J.M., Everett, R.G., Fry, D.L., Stephens, S.L. 2015. Novel characterization of landscape-level variability in historical vegetation structure. Ecological Applications 25: 1167-1174. PDF.

Gonzalez, P., J.J. Battles, B.M. Collins, T. Robards, D.S. Saah. 2015. Aboveground live carbon stock changes of California wildland ecosystems, 2001-2010. Forest Ecology and Management 348: 68-77. PDF.

Lydersen, J.M., B.M. Collins, E.E. Knapp, G.B. Roller, and S. Stephens. 2015. Relating fuel loads to overstory structure and composition in a fire-excluded Sierra Nevada mixed conifer forest. International Journal of Wildland Fire 24: 484-494. PDF.

North, M.P., A. Brough, J. Long, B. Collins, P. Bowden, D. Yasuda, J. Miller, N. Sugihara. 2015. Constraints on mechanized treatment significantly limit mechanical fuels reduction extent in the Sierra Nevada. Journal of Forestry. 113(1): 40-48. PDF. 

North, M.P., S.L. Stephens, B.M. Collins , J.K. Agee, G. Aplet, J.F. Franklin, and P.Z. Fulé. 2015. Reform forest fire management: Agency incentives undermine policy effectiveness. Science 18: 1280-1281. PDF.

Safford, H.D., J.D. Miller, B.M. Collins. 2015. Differences in land ownership, fire management objectives and source data matter: a reply to Hanson and Odion (2014). International Journal of Wildland Fire 24(2): 286-293. PDF.

Stephens, S.L., Lydersen, J.M., Collins, B.M., Fry, D.L., Meyer, M.D. 2015. Historical and current landscape-scale ponderosa pine and mixed-conifer forest structure in the Southern Sierra Nevada. Ecosphere 6(5) art 79. PDF.  Research Brief.

Stephens, S., M. North, and B. Collins. 2015. Large wildfires in forests: what can be done? Action Bioscience. PDF.

Tempel, D.J., R.J. Gutierrez, J.J. Battles, D.L. Fry, Y. Su, Q. Guo, M.J. Reetz, S.A Whitmore, G.M. Jones, B.M. Collins, S.L. Stephens, M. Kelly, W.J. Berigan, and M. Z. Peery. 2015. Evaluating short- and long-term impacts of fuels treatments and simulated wildfire on an old-forest species. Ecosphere 6(12): art261. PDF.

2014

Collins, B.M. 2014. Fire weather and large fire potential in the northern Sierra Nevada. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 189: 30-35. PDF. 

Collins, B.M., Das, A.J., Battles, J.J., Fry, D.L., Krasnow, K.D., Stephens, S.L. 2014. Beyond reducing fire hazard: fuel treatment impacts on overstory tree survival. Ecol. Appl. 24: 1879–1886. PDF.

Fry, D.L., S.L. Stephens, B.M. Collins, M.P. North, E. Franco-Vizcaino, and S.J. Gill. 2014. Contrasting Spatial Patterns in Active-Fire and Fire-Suppressed Mediterranean Climate Old-Growth Mixed Conifer Forests. PLOS ONE 9(2): e88985. PDF.

Kramer, H.A., Collins, B.M., Kelly, M., Stephens, S.L. 2014. Quantifying ladder fuels: A new approach using LiDAR. Forests 5(6):1432-1453. PDF.

Lydersen, J.M., B.M. Collins, C.M. Ewell, A.L. Reiner, J.A. Fites, C.B. Dow, P. Gonzalez, D.S. Saah, J.J. Battles. 2014. Using field data to assess model prediction of surface and ground fuel consumption by wildfire in coniferous forests of California. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences 119(3): 223-235. PDF.

Lydersen, J.M., M.P. North, B.M. Collins. 2014. Severity of an uncharacteristically large wildfire, the Rim Fire, in forests with relatively restored frequent fire regimes. Forest Ecology and Management 328: 326-334. PDF.

North, M., B. Collins, J. Keane, J.W. Long, C. Skinner, B. Zielinski. 2014. Synopsis of emergent approaches. Gen. Tech. Rep. PSW-GTR-247. Albany, CA: US Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station: 55-70. Chap. 1.3

Stephens, S.L., S.W. Bigelow, R.D. Burnett, B.M. Collins, C.V. Gallagher, J. Keane, D.A. Kelt, M.P. North, L.J. Roberts, P.A. Stine, D.H. Van Vuren. 2014. California spotted owl, songbird, and small mammal responses to landscape fuel treatments. Bioscience 64: 893-906. PDF.

2013

Collins, B.M., H.A. Kramer, K. Menning, C. Dillingham, D. Saah, P.A. Stine, S.L. Stephens. 2013. Modeling hazardous fire potential within a completed fuel treatment network in the northern Sierra Nevada. Forest Ecology and Management 310:156–166. PDF.

Collins, B.M., and G.B. Roller. 2013. Early forest dynamics in stand-replacing fire patches in the northern Sierra Nevada, California, USA. Landscape Ecology 28(9): 1801-1813. PDF.

Jakubowski, M., Q. Guo, B. Collins, S. Stephens, 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. PDF.

Lydersen, J.M., M.P. North, E.E. Knapp, B.M. Collins. 2013. Quantifying spatial patterns of tree groups and gaps in mixed-conifer forests: reference conditions and long-term changes following fire suppression and logging. Forest Ecology and Management 304: 370-382. PDF.

2012

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. PDF.

Miller, J.D., B.M. Collins, J.A. Lutz, S.L. Stephens, J.W. van Wagtendonk, D.A. Yasuda. 2012. Differences in wildfires among ecoregions and land management agencies in the Sierra Nevada region, California, USA. Ecosphere 3(9): art80. PDF.

North, M.P., B.M. Collins, S.L. Stephens. 2012. Using fire to increase the scale, benefits and future maintenance of fuels treatments. Journal of Forestry 110(7): 392-401. PDF. Research Brief. 

Stephens, S.L., B.M. Collins, G. Roller. 2012. Fuel treatment longevity in a Sierra Nevada mixed conifer forest. Forest Ecology and Management 285: 204-212. PDF.

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, A. Youngblood. 2012. Fuel treatment impacts on estimated wildfire carbon loss from forests in Montana, Oregon, California, and Arizona. Ecosphere 3(5): 38. PDF.

2010 – 2011

Collins, B.M., R.G. Everett, 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. PDF.

Collins, B.M., S.L. Stephens, G.B. Roller, J.J. Battles. 2011. Simulating fire and forest dynamics for a landscape fuel treatment project in the Sierra Nevada. Forest Science 57: 77-88. PDF.

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. PDF. Research Brief.

Collins, B.M., S.L. Stephens, J.M. Moghaddas, J. Battles. 2010. Challenges and approaches in planning fuel treatments across fire-excluded forested landscapes. Journal of Forestry 108: 24-31. PDF. 

Moghaddas, J.J., B.M. Collins, K. Menning, E.E.Y. Moghaddas, 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. PDF.

Stephens, S.L., D.L. Fry, B.M. Collins, C.N. Skinner, E. Franco-Vizcaino, T.J. Freed. 2010. Fire-scar formation in Jeffrey pine-mixed conifer forests in the Sierra San Pedro Martir, Mexico. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 40: 1497-1505. PDF.

Stephens. S.L., C.I. Millar, 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. PDF.

2004 – 2009

Collins B.M., Miller J.D., Thode A.E., Kelly M., van Wagtendonk J.W., Stephens S.L.  2009. Interactions among wildland fires in a long-established Sierra Nevada natural fire area. Ecosystems 12: 114-128. PDF. Research Brief.

North, M., K. Van de Water, S.L. Stephens, B. Collins. 2009. Climate, rain shadow, and human-use influences on Eastern Sierra Nevada fire regimes. Fire Ecology 5(3): 20-34. PDF.

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. PDF.

Collins, B. M., Moghaddas, J. J., 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.

Collins, B.M., N. K. Kelly,, J.W. van Wagtendonk, S.L. Stephens. 2007. Spatial patterns of large natural fires in Sierra Nevada wilderness areas. Landscape Ecology 22: 545-557. PDF

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 PDF.

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. PDF.

Stephens, S.L., Fry, D. L., Franco-Vizcaino, E., Collins, B.M., 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

Collins, B.M., P.N. Omi, P.L. Chapman. 2006. Regional relationships between climate and wildfire-burned area in the Interior West, USA. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 36(3): 699-709. PDF.

Stephens, S.L., and B.M. Collins. 2004. Fire regimes of mixed conifer forests in the north-central Sierra Nevada at multiple spatial scales. Northwest Science 78(1): 12-23. PDF.