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Over my years of working as a research ecologist for the U.S. Forest Service in Hawaii, I watched fountain grass repeatedly rise up like a green phoenix after ecologically devastating wildfires and rapidly establish in what to this species is a very favorable postfire environment of increased light and nutrients and decreased plant competition.

Robert J. Cabin: The Wildfires in Hawaii Are a Loss for Our World Robert J. Cabin 2011

The authors conclude: “There is a real likelihood of Yellowstone’s forests being converted to nonforest vegetation during the mid-21st century because reduced fire intervals would likely preclude postfire tree regeneration.”

David Kroodsma: This Week in Climate Science: Yellowstone Wildfires, Sea Levels and Shorebirds, and Fracking Accounting David Kroodsma 2011

Over my years of working as a research ecologist for the U.S. Forest Service in Hawaii, I watched fountain grass repeatedly rise up like a green phoenix after ecologically devastating wildfires and rapidly establish in what to this species is a very favorable postfire environment of increased light and nutrients and decreased plant competition.

Robert J. Cabin: The Wildfires in Hawaii Are a Loss for Our World Robert J. Cabin 2011

The authors conclude: “There is a real likelihood of Yellowstone’s forests being converted to nonforest vegetation during the mid-21st century because reduced fire intervals would likely preclude postfire tree regeneration.”

David Kroodsma: This Week in Climate Science: Yellowstone Wildfires, Sea Levels and Shorebirds, and Fracking Accounting David Kroodsma 2011

However, one controversial sentence ( "The results presented here suggest that postfire logging may conflict with ecosystem recovery goals.") was removed by the authors between on-line and print publication (with no public explanation given).

Archive 2006-01-01 ScienceWoman 2006

Based on their data, the authors make several broad conclusions with management implications: Our data show that postfire logging, by removing naturally seeded conifers and increasing surface fuel loads, can be counter-productive to goals of forest regeneration and fuel reduction.

Archive 2006-01-01 ScienceWoman 2006

Nothing you have said, written, implied, averred or alleged yet provided no detail for your assertion negates the fact that postfire logging has likely net negative impacts overall.

Reply to Science « Climate Audit 2006

In fact, the acknowledged authors report of a site on the east coast of Hudson Bay where no trees are presently growing that: The northernmost postfire regeneration during the 20th century occurred about 130 km south of the study area Payette et al 1989b.

Esper et al. [2002]: Quebec « Climate Audit 2005

The authors conclude: "There is a real likelihood of Yellowstone's forests being converted to nonforest vegetation during the mid-21st century because reduced fire intervals would likely preclude postfire tree regeneration."

The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com David Kroodsma 2011

Cruz A, Fernandez-Gonzales F, Moreno JM (2003) Effects of the recent land-use history on the postfire vegetation of uplands in Central Spain.

PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Anne-Laure Daniau et al. 2010