Susan Dickerson-Lange of NSD + CGS is pleased to share, along with her co-author, Kenna Patrick, and collaborators from TNC, UW, and SPU, that they’ve just published a new paper in Frontiers in Hydrology. It reports on 3 years of data collection in the Eastern Cascades, to help characterize whether thinning and prescribed burning to reduce fire risk and drought stress are likely to have a buffering, neutral, or amplifying effect on climate-induced reductions in snow storage (spoiler alert – the data suggest that the answer is neutral, except on north-facing aspects where thinning may have a buffering effect). Also, a big shout out to Julia Jay for supporting data processing and analysis!
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/water/articles/10.3389/frwa.2023.1115264/full)