State Natural Areas and the Evolution of Land Conservation in Twentieth-Century Wisconsin Land conservation initiatives underwent rapid change in early twentieth-century Wisconsin, culminating in the protection of hundreds of local natural areas scattered across the state.

New 𝘈𝘳𝘤𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘢 article by Nathan Kiel. Read about how land conservation initiatives underwent rapid change in early twentieth-century Wisconsin, culminating in the protection of hundreds of local natural areas scattered across the state.
@nathankiel.bsky.social #envhist #wisconsin #conservation

How much profit is your utility making off you?

Electricity costs are soaring - this tool from @energyandpolicy.org shows how much extra your utility charges per month.

Nationally, electric utilities took ~15% of your bill for profit last year.
energyandpolicy.org/utilityprofi...

Forests are reorganizing in their composition and structure in response to climate change - will they be able to maintain their carbon?
Turns out: yes - they even sequestered more carbon than resilient forests!

New paper out in Global Biogeochemical Cycles 🔄💎 @agu.org dx.doi.org/10.1029/2025...

Herd of bison crossing the snow covered plains

Good morning from @altyellonatpark.org

All our public lands should look like this

Honored my picture was selected. Check out the other winners and submissions. All these photos are stunning!

I’m really concerned about early career scientists using generative AI in writing, because writing is how we think and reflect. There’s almost nothing *more* human than that, and to give that gift away to a machine is almost unconscionable to me

Quote of the day from my fellow PhD colleague:

"We don't do things because they are easy, but because we thought they were easy."

Conceptual figure of postfire reorganization pathways and photo representations of pre- versus postfire differences in stand structure and composition.

🆕 in Ecosphere's "Vegetation Ecology" track: A hot & dry future may shake up Yellowstone forests—think fewer spruce, more fire-tolerant neighbors

📄Simulated postfire tree regeneration suggests reorganization of Greater Yellowstone forests during the 21st century
doi.org/10.1002/ecs2...

Great work led by @knowlton.bsky.social & hopeful takeaways for forests of Greater Yellowstone! Rather than failing to regenerate after fire, forests may shift in composition and structure throughout the 21st century.

How do changes in disturbance and regeneration interact to affect widely different temperate forest ecosystems? New insights from a simulation experiment on forest change, led by @christinadollinger.bsky.social, out now in Global Ecology and Biogeography doi.org/10.1111/geb.... #ERCresearch

Thank you so much, Jonathan!

Thanks also to the BlueSky-less coauthors Paul Hood, Diane Abendroth, and Kristin Braziunas!

Can fire exclusion zones enhance postfire tree regeneration? A simulation study in subalpine conifer forests Climate change and novel fire regimes increasingly challenge stewardship of forests adapted to infrequent, stand-replacing fire. Novel fire regimes may disrupt mechanisms that sustained postfire rege...

New paper in Ecological Applications! Management that mimics historical mosaics of fire severity could promote postfire tree regeneration under future climate change. Thanks to co-authors @monicagturner.bsky.social @rupertseidl.bsky.social @christinadollinger.bsky.social @knowlton.bsky.social

Interested in what me and my amazing coauthors found out about future carbon? 🌳🇯🇵🇩🇪🇺🇸

Then come listen to my talk tomorrow (Thursday) at GfÖ!
(12:15, Room 2.002)

The #TurnerLab was well represented at #ESA2025 and we appreciated the energy, enthusiasm and awesomely good science! Thanks for a great meeting @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social

Taylor’s law predicts unprecedented pulses of forest disturbance under global change - Nature Communications Large pulses of disturbance have been observed globally in response to climate change. Using Taylor’s Law, the authors show that those pulses were not unpredictable but expected given a strong scaling...

As the mean rate of forest disturbance is increasing, so does its temporal variance. Proof that Taylor's law also applies to disturbance ecology, and a warning of more severe future extremes. Paper led by @corneliussenf.bsky.social w/ @tommaso-jucker.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Hi! #journorequest here: For HCN, I'm looking to speak with #federal scientists from the West who are preparing for #fieldwork this upcoming season. How has the federal chaos affect your planning?

I'd be happy to offer anonymity. You can reach me at shien.kim@hcn.org or via Signal @shienkim.1721.

Conserving landscape dynamics, not just landscapes Abstract. Protected areas form the backbone of modern conservation. However, the current policies and practices in protected areas reinforce a static view

“Within protected areas, there is an urgent need to rethink what we are protecting: the current landscape conditions or the landscape dynamics that generate those conditions.”

New paper in BioScience “Conserving landscape dynamics, not just landscapes”

Link: academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...

Electric utilities falling behind on emission reduction targets Many of the nation’s largest electric utilities are not on track to achieve their interim emission reduction goals or the “net-zero” targets

Our new report finds utilities are falling behind on interim emission reduction goals promised to investors and customers. This trend is made more concerning given it is playing out against the backdrop of the Trump admin's attacks on climate policy.
energyandpolicy.org/electric-uti...

Sparse subalpine forest recovery pathways, plant communities, and carbon stocks 34 years after stand‐replacing fire Changing global climate and wildfire regimes are threatening forest resilience (i.e., the ability to recover from disturbance). Yet distinguishing areas of “no” versus “slow” postfire forest recovery...

New paper in #EcologicalMonographs w/ @monicagturner.bsky.social & E. Mavencamp! Among sparse/non-forested areas 34 years after the severe 1988 Yellowstone Fires:

- ~1/2 appear “locked in”;
- Plant communities shifted to resemble meadows;
- Aboveground C repartitioned w/ 96% stored in dead wood.

A friend likes the „Who Was…“ series!

www.whowasbookseries.com/who-was/

The Association for Fire Ecology is an international organization dedicated to improving the knowledge and use of fire in land management. We are scientists, educators, students, managers, practitioners, policymakers, and interested citizens helping to shape the emerging profession and growing field of fire ecology.

The Association for Fire Ecology is now on Bluesky!🦋 Follow us to stay up-to-date with Fire Ecology Journal articles, fire ecology news and job posts, and Fire Ecology Chats podcast episodes. Learn more about us here: fireecology.org

Led by Yavar Pourmohammad and published in @agu.org Earth's Future, we developed #MachineLearning models to infer the cause of wildfires that were recorded with an unknown/missing cause from their physical, biological and administrative covariates: doi.org/10.1029/2024...
@climate-guy.bsky.social

There are THREE! Count em THREE memoirs coming out in 2025/2026 by women/non-binary folks who have worked as wildland firefighters or hotshots. Here they are, for those interested in pre-orders or learning more about the authors.

Future landscapes of Greater Yellowstone YouTube video by UW-Madison Campus Connection

Conveying results of #simulationmodels is tricky. We produced a video to help folks understand how #climatechange and #fire could affect the iconic landscape of Greater #Yellowstone. Would love to see this used for ecology classes and outreach. @ttkeller.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIp7...

Future landscapes of Greater Yellowstone YouTube video by UW-Madison Campus Connection

Excited to connect with folks here! I work with forests, fire, and people who live with forests that burn. Last year, we partnered with the UW-Madison media team to produce a video on some of the Turner lab’s work in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. Enjoy!