UO faculty, including Heidi Huber-Stearns and James Johnston of IROCE, discuss the challenge of reducing wildfire risk and helping protect the public.

New research from the University of Oregon suggests that old growth trees are drying at an alarming rate in eastern Oregon.

A new study led by James Johnston, an assistant research professor for the University of Oregon, found that about 25% of trees over 300 years old died in the Malheur National Forest from 2012 to 2023.

The study, conducted by a team led by James Johnston, an assistant research professor at the University of Oregon, found that between 2012 and 2023, a quarter of trees over 300 years old in roadless…

Assistant research professor James Johnston led research that discovered very significant decline in old-growth trees in the Blue Mountains of eastern Oregon.

James Johnston, an assistant research professor at the University of Oregon’s Institute for Resilient Organizations, Communities, and Environments, said the Forest Service lacks the personnel and…

A 2021 study found no difference in severity of wildfires across roadless and roaded national forest lands in the West. That research team did find, though, that roadless national forest areas…

Heidi Huber-Stearns, Director of the Center for Wildfire Smoke Research and Practice and James Johnston, an Assistant Research Professor in Institute for Resilient Organizations, Communities, and…

The Northwest Forest Plan (NWFP) record of decision directs federal agencies to monitor the social and economic impacts of the NWFP in two ways: determine whether the supply of timber and nontimber…

In collaboration with the Northern Blues Restoration Partnership (NBRP), Wallowa Resources contracted with the Ecosystem Workforce Program (EWP) at the University of Oregon to conduct socioeconomic…