| Climate change and forests of the future: managing in the face of uncertainty CI Millar, NL Stephenson, SL Stephens Ecological applications 17 (8), 2145-2151, 2007 | 1561 | 2007 |
| Federal forest‐fire policy in the United States SL Stephens, LW Ruth Ecological applications 15 (2), 532-542, 2005 | 578 | 2005 |
| Experimental fuel treatment impacts on forest structure, potential fire behavior, and predicted tree mortality in a California mixed conifer forest SL Stephens, JJ Moghaddas Forest Ecology and Management 215 (1-3), 21-36, 2005 | 356 | 2005 |
| Fire treatment effects on vegetation structure, fuels, and potential fire severity in western US forests SL Stephens, JJ Moghaddas, C Edminster, CE Fiedler, S Haase, ... Ecological Applications 19 (2), 305-320, 2009 | 340 | 2009 |
| Evaluation of the effects of silvicultural and fuels treatments on potential fire behaviour in Sierra Nevada mixed-conifer forests SL Stephens Forest Ecology and Management 105 (1-3), 21-35, 1998 | 322 | 1998 |
| Managing forests and fire in changing climates SL Stephens, JK Agee, PZ Fule, MP North, WH Romme, TW Swetnam, ... Science 342 (6154), 41-42, 2013 | 250 | 2013 |
| The effects of forest fuel-reduction treatments in the United States SL Stephens, JD McIver, REJ Boerner, CJ Fettig, JB Fontaine, ... BioScience 62 (6), 549-560, 2012 | 240 | 2012 |
| Prescribed fire mortality of Sierra Nevada mixed conifer tree species: effects of crown damage and forest floor combustion SL Stephens, MA Finney Forest Ecology and Management 162 (2-3), 261-271, 2002 | 233 | 2002 |
| The ecology of mixed severity fire regimes in Washington, Oregon, and Northern California DA Perry, PF Hessburg, CN Skinner, TA Spies, SL Stephens, AH Taylor, ... Forest Ecology and Management 262 (5), 703-717, 2011 | 225 | 2011 |
| Interactions among wildland fires in a long-established Sierra Nevada natural fire area BM Collins, JD Miller, AE Thode, M Kelly, JW Van Wagtendonk, ... Ecosystems 12 (1), 114-128, 2009 | 219 | 2009 |
| Forest fire causes and extent on United States Forest Service lands SL Stephens International Journal of Wildland Fire 14 (3), 213-222, 2005 | 212 | 2005 |
| Prehistoric fire area and emissions from California's forests, woodlands, shrublands, and grasslands SL Stephens, RE Martin, NE Clinton Forest Ecology and Management 251 (3), 205-216, 2007 | 200 | 2007 |
| Spatial patterns of large natural fires in Sierra Nevada wilderness areas BM Collins, M Kelly, JW van Wagtendonk, SL Stephens Landscape Ecology 22 (4), 545-557, 2007 | 198 | 2007 |
| Using fire to increase the scale, benefits, and future maintenance of fuels treatments M North, BM Collins, S Stephens Journal of Forestry 110 (7), 392-401, 2012 | 194 | 2012 |
| The national Fire and Fire Surrogate study: effects of fuel reduction methods on forest vegetation structure and fuels DW Schwilk, JE Keeley, EE Knapp, J McIver, JD Bailey, CJ Fettig, ... Ecological Applications 19 (2), 285-304, 2009 | 185 | 2009 |
| An ecosystem management strategy for Sierran mixed-conifer forests M North, P Stine, K O'Hara, W Zielinski, S Stephens Gen. Tech. Rep. PSW-GTR-220 (Second printing, with addendum). Albany, CA: US …, 2009 | 178 | 2009 |
| Reform forest fire management MP North, SL Stephens, BM Collins, JK Agee, G Aplet, JF Franklin, ... Science 349 (6254), 1280-1281, 2015 | 175 | 2015 |
| Dendrochronology-based fire history of Jeffrey pine-mixed conifer forests in the Sierra San Pedro Martir, Mexico SL Stephens, CN Skinner, SJ Gill Canadian Journal of Forest Research 33 (6), 1090-1101, 2003 | 169 | 2003 |
| Impacts of fire exclusion and recent managed fire on forest structure in old growth Sierra Nevada mixed‐conifer forests BM Collins, RG Everett, SL Stephens Ecosphere 2 (4), 1-14, 2011 | 165 | 2011 |
| Land management practices associated with house loss in wildfires P Gibbons, L Van Bommel, AM Gill, GJ Cary, DA Driscoll, RA Bradstock, ... PloS one 7 (1), e29212, 2012 | 137 | 2012 |