Erosion Control

These publications focus on debris flows and soil loss.

Upcoming Events

None.

Past Events

Salvage Science Summit 2: Technology and Ecology

December 7, 2021 to December 8, 2021

Webinars & Recorded Media

Webinars

Wildfire Effects on Water Quantity, Water Quality, and Aquatic Ecology

Apr 13, 2021

Kevin D. Bladon

Post-Fire Salvage Logging Effects on Soils, Runoff, and Sediment Production in Western Watersheds

Apr 6, 2021

Joseph W. Wagenbrenner

Dirt Goes Downhill: Are We Making Better Post-Wildfire Erosion Control Treatment Decisions?

Feb 17, 2021

Peter R. Robichaud

Dirt Goes Downhill: Are We Making Better Post-Wildfire Erosion Control Treatment Decisions?

Feb 17, 2021

Peter R. Robichaud

Research Briefs

2020 Resources for Postfire Response: Empowering Land Managers with New After Fire Toolkit

Brian Cooke

2015 Assessing soil and vegetation recovery following the 2005 School Fire, Umatilla National Forest - 10-year update

Peter R. Robichaud et al.

Syntheses

2014 A synthesis of post-fire Burned Area Reports from 1972 to 2009 for western US Forest Service lands: trends in wildfire characteristics and post-fire stabilisation treatments and expenditures

Peter R. Robichaud et al.

2013 Does seeding after wildfires in rangelands reduce erosion or invasive species?

David A. Pyke

2011 Does seeding after severe forest fires in western USA mitigate negative impacts on soils and plant communities?

Donna Peppin et al.

2010 Post-wildfire seeding in forests of the western United States: an evidence-based review

Donna Peppin et al.

2004 Postfire seeding for erosion control: effectiveness and impacts on native plant communities

Jan L. Beyers

Publications/Reports

2021 Post-fire management impacts on soil hydrology

Book or Chapter or Journal Article

Demetrio Antonio Zema

2021 Improving post-wildfire peak streamflow predictions for small watersheds and communities

Technical Report or White Paper

Alicia M. Kinoshita, Brenton A. Wilder

2021 Combining Methods to Estimate Post-Fire Soil Erosion Using Remote Sensing Data

Book or Chapter or Journal Article

Ilenia Argentiero, Giovanni Francesco Ricci, Mario Elia, Marina D'Este, Vincenzo Giannico, Francisco Vito Ronco, Francesco Gentile, Giovanni Sanesi

2021 Effectiveness of post-fire salvage logging stream buffer management for hillslope erosion in the U.S. Inland Northwest Mountains

Book or Chapter or Journal Article

Peter R. Robichaud, Edwin D. Bone, Sarah A. Lewis, Erin S. Brooks, Robert E. Brown

2021 Hillslope sediment fence catch efficiencies and particle sorting for post-fire rain storms

Book or Chapter or Journal Article

Codie Wilson, Stephanie Kampf, Joseph W. Wagenbrenner, Lee H. MacDonald, Hunter Gleason

2021 Factors affecting connectivity and sediment yields following wildfire and post‐fire salvage logging in California's Sierra Nevada

Book or Chapter or Journal Article

Will H. Olsen, Joseph W. Wagenbrenner, Peter R. Robichaud

2021 Effectiveness of post‐fire salvage logging stream buffer management

Book or Chapter or Journal Article

Peter R. Robichaud, Edwin D. Bone, Sarah A. Lewis, Erin S. Brooks, Robert E. Brown

2021 Effectiveness of post-fire soil erosion mitigation treatments: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Book or Chapter or Journal Article

Antonio Girona-García, Diana C.S. Vieira, Joana Silva, Cristina Fernández, Peter R. Robichaud, Jan J. Keizer

2021 Using 137Cs measurements to estimate soil erosion rates in forest stands affected by wildfires. Results from plot experiments

Book or Chapter or Journal Article

Paolo Porto, Giovanni Callegari

2020 Temporal evolution of measured and simulated infiltration following wildfire in the Colorado Front Range, USA: shifting thresholds of runoff generation and hydrologic hazards

Book or Chapter or Journal Article

Brian A. Ebel

2020 PEMIP: Post-fire erosion model inter-comparison project

Book or Chapter or Journal Article

Stephanie Kampf, Benjamin Gannon, Codie Wilson, Freddy A. Saavedra, Mary Ellen Miller, Aaron Heldmyer, Ben Livneh, Peter A. Nelson, Lee H. MacDonald

2020 Evaluating post‐wildfire logging‐slash cover treatment to reduce hillslope erosion after salvage logging using ground measurements and remote sensing

Book or Chapter or Journal Article

Peter R. Robichaud, Sarah A. Lewis, Robert E. Brown, Edwin D. Bone, Erin S. Brooks

2020 Evaluating post-wildfire logging-slash cover treatment to reduce hillslope erosion after salvage logging using ground measurements and remote sensing

Book or Chapter or Journal Article

Peter R. Robichaud, Sarah A. Lewis, Robert E. Brown, Edwin D. Bone, Erin S. Brooks

2020 Connectivity of post-fire runoff and sediment from nested hillslopes and watersheds

Book or Chapter or Journal Article

Codie Wilson, Stephanie Kampf, Sandra E. Ryan-Burkett, Tim Covino, Lee H. MacDonald, Hunter Gleason

2020 Quantifying long-term post-fire sediment delivery and erosion mitigation effectiveness

Book or Chapter or Journal Article

Peter R. Robichaud, Sarah A. Lewis, Joseph W. Wagenbrenner, Robert E. Brown, Frederick B. Pierson

2020 Debris-flow dominated sediment transport through a channel network after wildfire

Book or Chapter or Journal Article

Petter Nyman, Walter A.C. Box, Justin C. Stout, Gary J. Sheridan, Saskia D. Keesstra, Patrick N. J. Lane, Christoph Langhans

2020 Remote sensing of vegetation conditions after post-fire mulch treatments

Book or Chapter or Journal Article

Viet D. Vo, Alicia M. Kinoshita

2019 Wildfire as a catalyst for hydrologic and geomorphic change

Book or Chapter or Journal Article

Francis K. Rengers

2019 Effectiveness of straw bale check dams at reducing post-fire sediment yields from steep ephemeral channels

Book or Chapter or Journal Article

Peter R. Robichaud, Keenan A. Storrar, Joseph W. Wagenbrenner

2019 Coupling wildfire spread and erosion models to quantify post-fire erosion before and after fuel treatments

Book or Chapter or Journal Article

Michele Salis, Liliana Del Giudice, Peter R. Robichaud, Alan A. Ager, Annalisa Canu, Pierpaolo Duce, Grazia Pellizzaro, Andrea Ventura, Fermin Alcasena-Urdiroz, Donatella Spano, Bachisio Arca

2019 Impacts of successive wildfire on soil hydraulic properties: implications for debris flow hazards and system resilience

Book or Chapter or Journal Article

Luke A. McGuire, Ann M. Youberg

2019 Post-wildfire sediment cascades: a modeling framework linking debris flow generation and network-scale sediment routing

Book or Chapter or Journal Article

Brendan P. Murphy, Jonathan A. Czuba, Patrick Belmont

2019 Post-fire wood mulch for reducing erosion potential increases tree seedlings with few impacts on understory plants and soil nitrogen

Book or Chapter or Journal Article

Jayne L. Jonas, Erin Berryman, Brett Wolk, Penelope Morgan, Peter R. Robichaud

2019 Post-fire soil erosion mitigation at the scale of swales using forest logging residues at a reduced application rate

Book or Chapter or Journal Article

Sergio A. Prats, Oscar González-Pelayo, Flávio C. Silva, K. J. Bokhorst, J. E. M. Baartman, Jan J. Keizer

2019 Partitioned by process: measuring post-fire debris-flow and rill erosion with structure from motion photogrammetry

Book or Chapter or Journal Article

Nicholas G. Ellett, Jennifer L. Pierce, Nancy F. Glenn

2019 Hydrological impacts of large fires and future climate: modeling approach supported by satellite data

Book or Chapter or Journal Article

Claudia Carvalho-Santos, Bruno Marcos, João Pedro Nunes, Adrián Regos, Elisa Palazzi, Silvia Terzago, Antonio T. Monteiro, João P. Honrado

2019 Effect of moss crusts on mitigation of post-fire soil erosion

Book or Chapter or Journal Article

Flávio C. Silva, Diana C.S. Vieira, Els van der Spek, J. Jacob Keizer

2019 Post-fire wood mulch for reducing erosion potential increases tree seedlings with few impacts on understory plants and soil nitrogen

Book or Chapter or Journal Article

Jayne L. Jonas, Erin Berryman, Brett Wolk, Penelope Morgan, Peter R. Robichaud

2019 Fire regime and ecosystem responses: adaptive forest management in a changing world (Part 1)

Book or Chapter or Journal Article

Daniel Moya, Giacomo Certini, Peter Z. Fule

2019 Progress in simplifying hydrologic model parameterization for broad applications to post-wildfire flooding and debris-flow hazards

Book or Chapter or Journal Article

Francis K. Rengers, Luke A. McGuire, Jason W. Kean, Dennis M. Staley, Ann M. Youberg

2019 The effects of post-fire forest management on soil erosion rates 3 and 4 years after a wildfire, demonstrated on the 2010 Mount Carmel fire

Book or Chapter or Journal Article

Rami Zituni, Lea Wittenberg, Dan Malkinson

2019 Partitioned by process: Measuring post‐fire debris‐flow and rill erosion with structure from motion photogrammetry

Book or Chapter or Journal Article

Nicholas G. Ellett, Jennifer L. Pierce, Nancy F. Glenn

2019 Long-term vegetation response following post-fire straw mulching

Book or Chapter or Journal Article

Jonathan D. Bontrager, Penelope Morgan, Andrew T. Hudak, Peter R. Robichaud

2019 Evolution of debris-flow initiation mechanisms and sediment sources during a sequence of post-wildfire rainstorms

Book or Chapter or Journal Article

Luke A. McGuire, Francis K. Rengers, Jason W. Kean, Dennis M. Staley, Joel B. Smith

2019 Hydrologic and erosion responses to compaction and added surface cover in post-fire logged areas: Isolating splash, interrill and rill erosion

Book or Chapter or Journal Article

Sergio A. Prats, Maruxa C. Malvar, Celeste O.A. Coelho, Joseph W. Wagenbrenner

2019 Soil carbon and nitrogen eroded after severe wildfire and erosion mitigation treatments

Book or Chapter or Journal Article

Derek N. Pierson, Peter R. Robichaud, Charles C. Rhoades, Robert E. Brown

2019 Looking through the window of disturbance at post-wildfire debris-flow hazards

Conference Proceedings

Luke A. McGuire, Francis K. Rengers, Jason W. Kean, Dennis M. Staley, Hui Tang, Ann M. Youberg

2019 Physical vulnerabilities from wildfires: Flames, floods, and debris flows

Book or Chapter or Journal Article

Daniel G. Neary, Jackson M. Leonard

2019 Taking the pulse of debris flows: Extracting debris-flow dynamics from good vibrations in southern California and central Colorado

Conference Proceedings

A. Michel, Jason W. Kean, Joel B. Smith, Kate E. Allstadt, Jeffrey A. Coe

2019 Geomorphic complexity and sensitivity in channels to fire and floods in mountain catchments

Book or Chapter or Journal Article

Dan Brogan, Lee H. MacDonald, Peter A. Nelson, Jacob A. Morgan

2018 Recovery of small-scale infiltration and erosion after wildfires

Book or Chapter or Journal Article

Sierra S. Larson-Nash, Peter R. Robichaud, Frederick B. Pierson, Corey A. Moffet, C. Jason Williams, Kenneth E. Spaeth, Robert E. Brown, Sarah A. Lewis

2018 Rainfall thresholds for post-fire runoff and sediment delivery from plot to watershed scales

Book or Chapter or Journal Article

Codie Wilson, Stephanie Kampf, Joseph W. Wagenbrenner, Lee H. MacDonald

2018 Estimating post-fire debris-flow hazards prior to wildfire using a statistical analysis of historical distributions of fire severity from remote sensing data

Book or Chapter or Journal Article

Dennis M. Staley, Anne Tillery, Jason W. Kean, Luke A. McGuire, Hannah E. Pauling, Francis K. Rengers, Joel B. Smith

2017 Do Post-Fire Mulching Treatments Affect Regeneration in Serotinous Lodgepole Pine?

Book or Chapter or Journal Article

Micah Wright, Monique E. Rocca

2016 Avian community responses to post-fire forest structure: implications for fire management in mixed conifer forests

Book or Chapter or Journal Article

Angela M. White, Patricia N. Manley, Gina L. Tarbill, T. Will Richardson, Robin E. Russell, Hugh Safford, Solomon Z. Dobrowski

2016 Rill erosion in burned and salvage logged western montane forests: effects of logging equipment type, traffic level, and slash treatment

Book or Chapter or Journal Article

Joseph W. Wagenbrenner, Peter R. Robichaud, Robert E. Brown

2015 Predicting spatial distribution of postfire debris flows and potential consequences for native trout in headwater streams

Book or Chapter or Journal Article

Edwin R. Sedell, Robert E. Gresswell, Thomas E. McMahon

2014 Climate change impacts in the United States: The third National Climate Assessment

Technical Report or White Paper

2014 A synthesis of post-fire Burned Area Reports from 1972 to 2009 for western US Forest Service lands: trends in wildfire characteristics and post-fire stabilisation treatments and expenditures

Book or Chapter or Journal Article, Synthesis

Peter R. Robichaud, Hakjun Rhee, Sarah A. Lewis

2014 New insights into debris-flow hazards from an extraordinary event in the Colorado Front Range

Book or Chapter or Journal Article

Jeffrey A. Coe, Jason W. Kean, Jonathan W. Godt, Rex L. Baum, Eric S. Jones, David Gochis, Gregory S. Anderson

2013 Post-fire mulching for runoff and erosion mitigation; Part I: effectiveness at reducing hillslope erosion rates

Book or Chapter or Journal Article

Peter R. Robichaud, Sarah A. Lewis, Joseph W. Wagenbrenner, Louise E. Ashmun, Robert E. Brown

2013 Does seeding after wildfires in rangelands reduce erosion or invasive species?

Book or Chapter or Journal Article, Synthesis

David A. Pyke

2012 Enhanced sediment delivery in a changing climate in semi-arid mountain basins: implications for water resource management and aquatic habitat in the northern Rocky Mountains

Book or Chapter or Journal Article

Jaime R. Goode, Charles H. Luce, John M. Buffington

2012 Probability and volume of potential postwildfire debris flows in the 2012 High Park Burn Area near Fort Collins, Colorado

Technical Report or White Paper

Kristine L. Verdin, Jean A. Dupree, John G. Elliott

2011 Does seeding after severe forest fires in western USA mitigate negative impacts on soils and plant communities?

Synthesis, Technical Report or White Paper

Donna Peppin, Peter Z. Fule, Jan L. Beyers, Carolyn Hull Sieg, Molly E. Hunter

2010 Post-wildfire seeding in forests of the western United States: an evidence-based review

Book or Chapter or Journal Article, Synthesis

Donna Peppin, Peter Z. Fule, Carolyn Hull Sieg, Jan L. Beyers, Molly E. Hunter

2009 Climate and wildfire area burned in western US ecoprovinces, 1916-2003

Book or Chapter or Journal Article

Jeremy S. Littell, Donald McKenzie, David L. Peterson, Anthony L. Westerling

2009 The increasing wildfire and post-fire debris-flow threat in Western USA, and implications for consequences of climate change

Book or Chapter or Journal Article

Susan H. Cannon, Jerome DeGraff

2008 Effectiveness of aerial seeding and straw mulch for reducing post-wildfire erosion, north-western Montana, USA

Book or Chapter or Journal Article

Amy H. Groen, Scott W. Woods

2007 Predicting postfire erosion and mitigation effectiveness with a web-based probabilistic erosion model

Book or Chapter or Journal Article

Peter R. Robichaud, William J. Elliot, Frederick B. Pierson, David E. Hall, Corey A. Moffet

2006 Protection from erosion following wildfire

Conference Proceedings

Peter R. Robichaud, William J. Elliot

2005 Compilation of data relating to the erosive response of 606 recently burned basins in the western U.S.

Technical Report or White Paper

J. E. Gartner, Susan H. Cannon, Erica R. Bigio, Nicole K. Davis, C. Parrett, Kenneth L. Pierce, M. G. Rupert, Brandon L. Thurston, Matthew J. Trebesch, Steve P. Garcia, A.H. Rea

2005 Basic principles of forest fuel reduction treatments

Book or Chapter or Journal Article

James K. Agee, Carl N. Skinner

2004 Postfire seeding for erosion control: effectiveness and impacts on native plant communities

Book or Chapter or Journal Article, Synthesis

Jan L. Beyers

2004 Postfire management on forested public lands of the western United States

Book or Chapter or Journal Article

Robert L. Beschta, Jonathan J. Rhodes, J. Boone Kauffman, Robert E. Gresswell, G. Wayne Minshall, James R. Karr, David A. Perry, F. Richard Hauer, Christopher A. Frissell

2003 Post-fire erosional processes: In the Pacific Northwest and Rocky Mountain region

Book or Chapter or Journal Article

Steven M. Wondzell, John G. King

2003 A review of prescribed burning effectiveness in fire hazard reduction

Book or Chapter or Journal Article

Paulo M. Fernandes, Herminio S. Botelho

2001 Post-fire runoff and erosion from rainfall simulation: contrasting forests with shrublands and grasslands

Book or Chapter or Journal Article

Matthew P. Johansen, Thomas E. Hakonson, David D. Breshears

2001 Initial hydrologic and geomorphic response following a wildfire in the Colorado Front Range

Book or Chapter or Journal Article

John A. Moody, Deborah A. Martin