In this Issue

This issue of Fire Ecology begins with another classic fire paper in Forum, this time from South Africa.  John Phillips wrote his landmark paper on African fire in 1930, and it remains relevant today.  From Africa to Argentina, Salvia et al. begin the Research Articles section of the journal with a description of the recovery process of wetlands after burning in delta marshes.  This is followed by six North American research papers.  Sherrill and Romme evaluate spatial variation in postfire cheatgrass at Dinosaur National Monument.  Gucker et al. synthesize information on fire and invasive plants in the eastern United States.  Teske et al. evaluate fire-on-fire interaction in three large wilderness areas in Montana and Idaho.  Milich et al. investigate heat effects on five cypress species of California.  Scott et al. model the threat of unsuppressed wildfires reaching adjacent urban-wildland interface areas in Wyoming, and Hubbert et al. evaluate hydrologic effects of wildfires in grass-converted and chaparral watersheds of southern California.  Finally, a Short Communication from Standiford et al. details fire history in blue oak woodlands of the Sierra Nevada. 

~ Jim Agee, Editor

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