Wildfire and post-fire salvage logging alter forest structure, but consequences for wildlife are uncertain. We examined forest-specialist Pacific marten (Martes caurina) on three recently-burned landscapes in Washington and British Columbia. Marten selected lightly-burned sites with overhead cover and high structural complexity, but avoided severely-burned and salvage-logged sites lacking these features.

Ground fuels (leaf litter and logs) are important in forest fires, but how decomposer organisms (invertebrates, fungi and bacteria) affect fuel breakdown is rarely considered. We review the evidence for the importance of decomposer organisms and its regulation by global change, highlighting knowledge gaps and the way forward.

Pyrogenic carbon (PyC), generated by fire, acts as a stable carbon deposit and is stored in the peatland soil carbon pool. PyC chemical compositions and thermal stability are significantly affected by burning temperature and fuel sources, and can be used to identify PyC sources and fire intensity.

There is a growing interest in connecting fire science and management through processes like co-production of fire science, which can increase the relevance and utility of research products by integrating diverse knowledge and goals. Research organisations can enable and incentivise co-production through modifications to performance evaluations, funding structures and career ladders.

Statistical learning methods were used to develop predictive models of the likely number and location of daily airtanker and helicopter initial attack targets in British Columbia, Canada, that can inform the day-basing or prepositioning of aircraft to reduce response times.