Materials/Resources for Post-Fire
Post-Fire Forest Management Fact Sheets
Managing Competing Vegetation After High Severity Wildfire
Managing Competing Vegetation with Herbicide
Post-Fire Erosion Control: Mitigating Hillslope Erosion
Recommendations for Managing Oak and Hardwood Resprouts
Post-fire Considerations: Using prescribed fire to build forest resilience
Post-Fire Management Overview
Post-fire Management Concerns & Challenges:
Introduction
For a brief overview and further resources, view Post-Fire Consideration for Landowners by Ryan Tompkins, UCCE Forester & Natural Resource Advisor
For a detailed introduction, view Recovering from Wildfire: A Guide for California's Forest Landowners by Kristen Shive, UCCE Fire Specialist, and Susan Kocher, UCCE Forester & Natural Resource Advisor
For a series of presentations on post-fire topics, visit the UC Forestry and Range YouTube Channel to find our Wildfire Series: Post-Fire Recovery, which overviews post-fire topics such as:
Post-fire Reforestation Consideration
Post-fire Oak Survival and Regeneration
Understanding Wildfire Impacts on Soil
Post-fire Safety and Environmental Considerations
Post-fire Safety and Environmental Considerations
For resources on:
- Assessing Fire-Killed Trees
- Snags and Safety
- Erosion Control
See our for a brief overview of the importance of managing for competing vegetation following a wildfire and treatment practices
Visit, the Wildfire Forestry Recovery Page
See our Post-Fire Erosion Control: Mitigating Hillslope Erosion Following a Wildfire by Alison Deak (UCCE Fire Advisor) for a brief overview of the post-erosion control consideration and techniques.
Suggested Resources:
"Persistence of fire-killed conifer snags in California, USA”
View “Assessing Post Fire Tree Mortality: A Forest Stewardship Follow Up Workshop” (Beginning to minute 41)
Post-fire Reforestation Practices
Post-fire Reforestation Practices
Suggested resources:
Review “Forest Stewardship #7: Forest Regeneration”
Review “Forest Stewardship #25 Climate Change”
Review “Reforestation Practices for Conifers in California: Chapter 3”
Post-fire Competing Vegetation Management
Post-fire Competing Vegetation Management
See our Managing Competing Vegetation After High Severity Wildfire fact sheet for a brief overview of the importance of managing for competing vegetation following a wildfire and how you can leverage treatment tools to meet your management objectives.
For more information on how herbicide is used in post-fire reforestation efforts, view our new Managing Competing Vegetation with Herbicide fact sheet
Review “Forest Stewardship #6 Forest Vegetation Management”
Review “Reforestation Practices for Conifers in California: Chapter 8”
Review “Field Guide: Weeds, Forages and Natives of the Central Sierra Nevada”
View UC Livestock and Range advisor factsheet on Post-fire Grazing in Intermountain Ranges
View our Post-fire factsheet on Recommendations for Managing Oak and Hardwood Resprouts
For more information, visit our Reforestation Page