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Causes of Missing Snowmelt Following Drought

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Forest Vegetation Change and Its Impacts on Soil Water Following 47 Years of Managed Wildfire

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Potential wildfire and carbon stability in frequent‐fire forests in the Sierra Nevada: trade‐offs from a long‐term study

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A Mixed Methods Literature Review and Framework for Decision Factors That May Influence the Utilization of Managed Wildfire on Federal Lands, USA

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Hydrological benefits of restoring wildfire regimes in the Sierra Nevada persist in a warming climate

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Spatial overlap of wildfire and biodiversity in California highlights gap in non‐conifer fire research and management

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Impacts of Wildfires on Groundwater Recharge: A Comprehensive Analysis of Processes, Methodological Challenges, and Research Opportunities

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Characterising the holdover phase of lightning-ignited wildfires in Catalonia

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Structure, diversity and health of Sierra Nevada red fir forests with reestablished fire regimes

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Too hot, too cold, or just right: Can wildfire restore dry forests of the interior Pacific Northwest?

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Effectiveness of forest density reduction treatments for increasing drought resistance of ponderosa pine growth

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How forest management changed the course of the Washburn fire and the fate of Yosemite’s giant sequoias (Sequoiadendron giganteum)

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The role of fire on Earth

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Fitting the solutions to the problems in managing extreme wildfire in California

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Managing forward while looking back: reopening closed forests to open woodlands and savannas

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Management Implications of Snowpack Sensitivity to Temperature and Atmospheric Moisture Changes in Yosemite National Park, CA

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A good idea or just an idea: Which adaptation strategies for conservation are tested?

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Drivers of understory plant communities in Sierra Nevada mixed conifer forests with pyrodiversity

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Patterns of wildfire risk in the United States from systematic operational risk assessments: how risk is characterised by land managers

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Different roads, same destination: The shared future of plant ecophysiology and ecohydrology

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Comparing Geography and Severity of Managed Wildfires in California and the Southwest USA before and after the Implementation of the 2009 Policy Guidance

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Hydrology and stream water quality of fire-prone watersheds

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Analyzing Wildfire Suppression Difficulty in Relation to Protection Demand

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Spatial patterns of meadow sensitivities to interannual climate variability in the Sierra Nevada

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Water Budgets for the Delta Watershed: Putting Together the Many Disparate Pieces

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Seeing the Disturbed Forest for the Trees: Remote Sensing Is Underutilized to Quantify Critical Zone Response to Unprecedented Disturbance

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Stranded land constrains public land management and contributes to larger fires

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Assessing fuel treatments and burn severity using global and local analyses

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Second-Entry Burns Reduce Mid-Canopy Fuels and Create Resilient Forest Structure in Yosemite National Park, California

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Fire exclusion alters forest evapotranspiration: A comprehensive water budget analysis in longleaf pine woodlands

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Large‐diameter trees affect snow duration in post‐fire old‐growth forests

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Fire return intervals explain different vegetation cover responses to wildfire restoration in two Sierra Nevada basins

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Restoring Historic Forest Disturbance Frequency Would Partially Mitigate Droughts in the Central Sierra Nevada Mountains

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Finding floral and faunal species richness optima among active fire regimes

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Forest resilience research using remote sensing and GIS – A systematic literature review

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Spatial Monte Carlo Simulation and Analysis of Climate Change Enhanced Fire and Projected Landscape-Scale Variation in Vegetation Heterogeneity

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The effectiveness of adding fire for air quality benefits challenged: A case study of increased fine particulate matter from wilderness fire smoke with more active fire management

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Fire Exclusion and Megadrought Accelerate Whitebark Pine Mortality and Succession in a Trailing Edge Subalpine Forest

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Satellite and eddy covariance analysis reveals short-lived evapotranspiration changes after fire in Mediterranean woodland

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Differing Sensitivities to Fire Disturbance Result in Large Differences Among Remotely Sensed Products of Vegetation Disturbance

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Influence of wildfire and feral horse use on mule deer summer range occupancy

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Effect of Forest Management Practices on Water Balance Across a Water–Energy Gradient in the Upper Kings River Basin, USA

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Impacts of mega drought in fire-prone montane forests and implications for forest management

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A System Dynamics Model Examining Alternative Wildfire Response Policies

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Construction and assessment of a fire risk index system for typical grasslands in Xinjiang, China

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Hydrologic responses to restored wildfire regimes revealed by soil moisture-vegetation relationships

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Vegetation change during 40 years of repeated managed wildfires in the Sierra Nevada, California

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Forest Vegetation Change and Its Impacts on Soil Water Following 47 Years of Managed Wildfire

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Fire, water, and biodiversity in the Sierra Nevada: a possible triple win

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Restoring a Natural Fire Regime Alters the Water Balance of a Sierra Nevada Catchment

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