North American forests are experiencing unprecedented challenges due to extreme wildfires, pathogen and
insect outbreaks, heat stress, drought, rapid development, and invasive species. Exacerbated by climate
change, these threats collectively diminish cultural values, economic values, and habitat. Contemporary
and historical management, including a long legacy of fire exclusion in many sites, are root causes of current
forest conditions.Cristina Eisenberg et al.
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