About the Authors

Patrick J. Vogan

Contributed equally to this work with: Patrick J. Vogan, Anna W. Schoettle

Affiliations Mountain Studies Institute, Post Office Box 426, Silverton, Colorado 81433, United States of America, Rocky Mountain Research Station, United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service, 240 West Prospect Road, Fort Collins, Colorado 80526, United States of America

Anna W. Schoettle

Contributed equally to this work with: Patrick J. Vogan, Anna W. Schoettle

aschoettle@fs.fed.us

Affiliation Rocky Mountain Research Station, United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service, 240 West Prospect Road, Fort Collins, Colorado 80526, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: AWS PJV. Data curation: PJV AWS. Formal analysis: PJV AWS. Funding acquisition: AWS. Investigation: PJV AWS. Methodology: AWS PJV. Project administration: AWS. Resources: AWS. Supervision: AWS. Visualization: PJV. Writing – original draft: PJV AWS. Writing – review & editing: AWS PJV.