Research Briefs 1. Insights from wildfire backburns for conducting hot prescribed burns in ponderosa pine plantations 2. Impacts of Repeated Prescribed Burns on Fuel and Forest Conditions in the Sierra Nevada 3. Prescribed Fire Liability in California 4. Pyrosilviculture: merging prescribed fire and silviculture 5. California’s 1-million-acres goal: tracking our progress 6. Winter burning opportunities in the sierra nevada