Northern spotted owl nesting habitat under high potential wildfire threats along the California Coastal Redwood Forest by Hysen, LB, Cushman, SA, Fogarty, FA, Kelly, EC, Nayeri, D, Wan, HY

“…Large and severe wildfires, exacerbated by climate change and human behavior, are occurring more frequently in many forests across the western United States. While wildfire is a natural part of most terrestrial ecosystems, rapidly changing fire regimes have the potential to alter habitat beyond the adaptive capabilities of species. …”

Temporal Patterns of Structural Sagebrush Connectivity from 1985 to 2020 by Erin K. Buchholtz, Michael S. O’Donnell, Julie A. Heinrichs, Cameron L. Aldridge

“…The sagebrush biome within the western United States has been reshaped by disturbances, management, and changing environmental conditions. …”
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Spatial Estimates of Soil Moisture for Understanding Ecological Potential and Risk: A Case Study for Arid and Semi-Arid Ecosystems by Michael S. O’Donnell, Daniel J. Manier

“…We applied the model across the western United States using monthly climate averages (1981–2010). …”
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<em>CYMBOSPONDYLUS</em> VERTEBRAE (ICHTHYOSAURIA, SHASTASAURIDAE) FROM THE UPPER ANISIAN PREZZO LIMESTONE (MIDDLE TRIASSIC, SOUTHERN ALPS) WITH AN OVERVIEW OF THE CHRONOSTRATIGRAPH... by MARCO BALINI, SILVIO C. RENESTO

“…Records of Cymbospondylus in the Southern Alps, Germanic Basin, western United States and Spitsbergen are summarized and all previous occurrences of the genus are bio-chronostratigraphically correlated by utilizing the abundant ammonoid literature. …”
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Snow Water Equivalent Accumulation Patterns from a Trajectory Approach over the U.S. Southern Rocky Mountains by Isaac J. Y. Schrock, Steven R. Fassnacht, Antonio-Juan Collados-Lara, William E. Sanford, Anna K. D. Pfohl, Enrique Morán-Tejeda

“…Data were used from 90 snow stations for a 34-year period across the Southern Rocky Mountains in the western United States. The stations were divided into sub-sets based on elevation, latitude, and the mean annual maximum SWE. …”
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Evaluating the safety effectiveness of downgrade warning signs on vehicle crashes on Wyoming mountain passes by Milhan Moomen, Mahdi Rezapour, Mustaffa Ngah Raja, Khaled Ksaibati

“…Highway safety on mountain passes is a major concern to most highway agencies in the Western United States. Large trucks are known to be disproportionately affected on downgrades which characterize mountain passes in comparison to other vehicle classes. …”
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The complete genome sequence of 'Candidatus Liberibacter solanacearum', the bacterium associated with potato zebra chip disease. by Hong Lin, Binghai Lou, Jonathan M Glynn, Harshavardhan Doddapaneni, Edwin L Civerolo, Chuanwu Chen, Yongping Duan, Lijuan Zhou, Cheryl M Vahling

“…This disease has led to multi-million dollar losses for growers in the central and western United States over the past decade and impacts the livelihood of potato farmers in Mexico and New Zealand. …”
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Hydrology, rather than wildfire burn extent, determines post‐fire organic and black carbon export from mountain rivers in central coastal California by Riley Barton, Christina M. Richardson, Evelyn Pae, Maya S. Montalvo, Michael Redmond, Margaret A. Zimmer, Sasha Wagner

“…To better predict and mitigate the effects of wildfires on aquatic ecosystems and resources, we must evaluate the relationships between fire, hydrology, and carbon export, particularly in the fire‐prone western United States. This study examined the spatiotemporal export of particulate and dissolved OC (POC and DOC, respectively) and particulate and dissolved black carbon (PBC and DBC, respectively) from five coastal mountain watersheds following the 2020 CZU Lightning Complex Fires (California, USA). …”
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The Effect of Seeding Treatments and Climate on Fire Regimes in Wyoming Sagebrush Steppe by Chris Bowman-Prideaux, Beth A. Newingham, Eva K. Strand

“…Wildfire size and frequency have increased in the western United States since the 1950s, but it is unclear how seeding treatments have altered fire regimes in arid steppe systems. …”
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Ocean Temperatures Do Not Account for a Record-Setting Winter in the U.S. West by Matthew D. LaPlante, Liping Deng, Luthiene Dalanhese, Shih-Yu Wang

“…The record-setting winter of 2022–2023 came as an answer to both figurative and literal prayers for political leaders, policy makers, and water managers reliant on snowpacks in the Upper Colorado River Basin, a vital source of water for tens of millions of people across the Western United States. But this “drought-busting” winter was not well-predicted, in part because while interannual patterns of tropical ocean temperatures have a well-known relationship to precipitation patterns across much of the American West, the Upper Colorado is part of a liminal region where these connections tend to be comparatively weak. …”
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“Our Laws Have Not Caught up with the Technology”: Understanding Challenges and Facilitators in Investigating and Prosecuting Child Sexual Abuse Materials in the United States by Olivia Cullen, Keri Zug Ernst, Natalie Dawes, Warren Binford, Gina Dimitropoulos

“…To meet these objectives, qualitative interviews and focus groups were conducted with participants throughout the western United States. Two major themes arose from this research: Theme 1: Challenges to investigating and prosecuting CSAM; and Theme 2: Facilitators to investigating and prosecuting CSAM. …”
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Facebook Ads Manager as a Recruitment Tool for a Health and Safety Survey of Farm Mothers: Pilot Study by Burke, Richard R, Weichelt, Bryan P, Namkoong, Kang

“…Compared to the distribution of female producers in the United States, our advertisements were unexpectedly overrepresented in the eastern United States and were underrepresented in the western United States. ConclusionsFacebook Ads Manager represents a potentially cost-effective and timely method to recruit participants for online health and safety research when targeting a specific population. …”
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Fire Severity in Reburns Depends on Vegetation Type in Arizona and New Mexico, U.S.A. by Larissa L. Yocom, Jeff Jenness, Peter Z. Fulé, Andrea E. Thode

“…After more than a century of low fire activity in the western United States, wildfires are now becoming more common. …”
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Geophysical and Geochemical Constraints on Neogene‐Recent Volcanism in the North American Cordillera by Roy D. Hyndman, Dante Canil

“…Geochemical data for the Canadian Cordillera are integrated with data from the western United States. Upper mantle xenoliths indicate a dry strong lithosphere, <50 ppm H2O. …”
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Hydrocarbon Bio-Jet Fuel from Bioconversion of Poplar Biomass: Life Cycle Assessment of Site-Specific Impacts by Erik Budsberg, Nathan Parker, Varaprasad Bandaru, Renata Bura, Rick Gustafson

“…This research uses spatial analysis and life cycle assessment methodologies to investigate potential environmental impacts associated with converting land to grow poplar trees for conversion to bio-jet fuel from different regions within the western United States. Results vary by region and are dependent on land availability, type of land converted, prior land management practices, and poplar growth yields. …”
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Integrated STEM for Teacher Professional Learning and Development: “I Need Time for Practice” by Andrea C. Burrows, Mike Borowczak, Adam Myers, Andria C. Schwortz, Courtney McKim

“…The study is set in the western United States (USA) and involves 60 pre-collegiate teachers (in the USA these are K-12 teachers) over the course of three years (June 2014–May 2017). …”
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High hopes, low odds: factors impacting the higher education considerations of disadvantaged students by Telford, T

“…</p> <p>Student participants were recruited from within Upward Bound programs associated with public universities throughout a single state located in the Western United States. Upward Bound, one of eight federally-funded TRIO programs, is a pre-collegiate bridge program that seeks to increase higher education attainment amongst students from disadvantaged backgrounds. …”

Reducing predictive uncertainty in log-derived water saturation models in a giant tight shaly sandstones - a case study from Mesaverde tight gas reservoir by Amiri, Morteza, Zahedi, Gholamreza Reza, Yunan, Mat Hussin

“…A log-derived calibration coefficient is introduced to calibrate conventional water saturation models in tight shaly sandstone reservoirs in the Rocky Mountains, western United States, in this study.It is implemented for calibration of eight traditional saturation models in this giant gas field to prove its validity. …”

Bat use of abandoned mines throughout Nevada by Megan L. Moran, Janet C. Steven, Jason A. Williams, Richard E. Sherwin

“…Abstract Abandoned mines offer important roosting habitat for several species of bats throughout the western United States. Currently, abandoned mine reclamation programs are tasked with closing abandoned mines to ameliorate safety, health, and environmental hazards found in and around these sites. …”
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Development of RNAi Methods for the Mormon Cricket, <em>Anabrus simplex</em> (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae) by Toan Hoang, Bert Foquet, Seema Rana, Drew W. Little, Derek A. Woller, Gregory A. Sword, Hojun Song

“…Mormon crickets are a major rangeland pest in the western United States and are currently managed by targeted applications of non-specific chemical insecticides, which can potentially have negative effects on the environment. …”
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