Five years after the Allen Road Fire, the U.S. government established the Pocosin Lakes National Wildlife Refuge in the North Carolina cost to restore the ditched, dried, and burned peatlands and convert them back into carbon sinks. Refuge managers are working in a 19-year effort to construct an equally ingenious hydrologic system.

The 2011 Horseshoe 2 fire caused intense flooding and soil erosion which led to stream sedimentation, infrastructure damage, and degraded watershed conditions in the Chiricahua Mountains region. To address this, partners engaged in a restoration project in burned (Tex Canyon) and unburned (Bar Boot Allotment) watersheds using in-channel loose rock erosion control structures.

USFWS established the Sevilleta Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) to research fire management with prescribed burns in semiarid grasslands at Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge (SNWR). The effect of prescribed burns and timing on organic matter, ammonium, and nitrate was measured. Results suggest that seasonality affects plant species productivity and composition.

In May 2016, a 36-acre prescribed underburn was completed by BLM crew on the Marty and Peggy Main property near Trail, Oregon. The Main property is a 120-acre parcel consisting of low-elevation, dry, mixed conifer forest typical of the area. The overarching goal is to restore ecosystem processes and return the site to a more frequent, lower-severity disturbance regime.

After the 2018 Martin Fire, the USDA and the Nevada Department of Wildlife completed a restoration project on public and private land to rehabilitate the burned rangeland. Using herbicide and previously tested experimental seed mixes, the project sought to control cheatgrass and establish both native and non-native perennial plant species to lessen the long-term wildfire damage on the rangeland.

Through a collaboration with USGS, the San Carlos Apache Forest Resources Program (SCAFRP) completed an analysis of aerial photographs and remote sensing data that help them develop baseline, historical extent of these ecosystems. Their goal is to restore the ecosystems by actively managing grasslands and savannas for prevention and reversal of woody species encroachments.

The project is part of the St. Vrain Forest Health Partnership which is a collaborative of agencies and community members working to increase the pace and scale of cross-boundary forest restoration that provide infrastructure protection and public safety in the St. Vrain Watershed.

The Nature Conservancy conducted research in the Saz-Zim Bog with the mission to measure carbon and methane emissions from the bog in order to learn more about its potential for mitigating climate change and the best approach for restoration. Long misunderstood and unappreciated, peatlands are gaining recognition for the carbon storage and other ecosystem benefits they provide.

The Karuk Tribe of California and the Six Rivers and Klamath National Forests worked on developing a programmatic approach to watershed restoration in the Karuk Ancestral Territory, an area that was degraded by past mining, excessive logging, and road building activities.

Managers at the Marine Corps Air Station Yuma (MCASY) used a web-based weather-monitoring network and a cloud-based mapping app to help detect, map, monitor, and treat invasive Sahara mustard (Brassica tournefortii) and buffelgrass (Pennisetum ciliare) at the Barry M. Goldwater Range-West (BMGR-W) of the Sonoran Desert in southwestern Arizona.

The Wood for Life partnership (WFL) was a collaborative network of organizations in northern Arizona including the USFS, Navajo Nation, and Hopi Tribe. They are working to remove thinned fuelwood from restoration projects in the wildland urban interface (WUI) to reduce the risk of wildfires, and make the removed wood available for Navajo Nation and Hopi Tribe members.