Press

Media interest, research briefs, and interviews

2024 USU researchers identify world's oldest Colorado Blue Spruce - Cache Valley Daily

2024 – Big Blue, Meet Old Blue Utah State TODAY

2024 – Medium-sized fires burn less severely than large fires – Research brief for managers

2024 – High deadwood loadings decades after spruce beetle outbreak – Research brief for managers

2024 – High overlap of fungi across the range of Douglas-fir – Research brief for managers

2024 – Large trees promote belowground fungal diversity – Research brief for managers

2024 – Ancient blue spruce hiding among Engelmann spruce – Research brief for managers

2024 – Growing season frost defoliates aspen and reduces growth by 40% – Research brief for managers

2024 – Pine seedlings regenerate close to large deadwood and mature trees – Research brief for managers

2024 – Fungi benefit limber pine and bristlecone pine – Research brief for managers

2024 – Mapping Utah’s Fires – Eyes on Earth Episode 124

2024 – Fire Behavior Assessment Team Monitoring on the 2024 Park Fire – Report to Lassen National Forest

2024 – Keeping track of our trees – Utah State Today video

2024 – Prescribed fire and mastication reduced bark-beetle caused pine mortality – Research Brief for Managers

2024 – Arms-length expert for Science News article

2024 – ‘What 4 decades of data tell us about Utah’s unique wildfire landscapes’ – KUER 90.1 Utah


2023 – Contributed abstract for the Whitebark Pine Ecosystem Foundation December newsletter

2023 – Heading fires consume more fuels than backing fires – Research Brief for Managers

2023 – ‘Strange Burn: New Research Identifies Unique Patterns in Utah Wildfires’ – Utah State TODAY

2023 – It’s cold out there! Commentary, Tremblings Newsletter, 14(1)


2022 – Fire Behavior Assessment Team Monitoring on the 2022 Mosquito Fire  – Report to Tahoe National Forest

2022 – Contributor to Utah’s Land, Water, and Air: 2022 report to the governor


2021 – Interviewed for The Ecologist

2021 – Research featured on DaVinci


2020 – Interviewed for Folio

2020 – Interviewed for the Gateway


2019 – Images of Research semi-finalist