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A collaborative, cloud-based decision support system for structured wildfire risk mitigation planning
Year: 2026
Multi-stakeholder planning and prioritization for ecosystem management and wildfire risk mitigation are complicated by the need to balance a multitude of values, goals, viewpoints, and interests across large landscapes. Doing so requires quantifying current conditions, defining management feasibility constraints, modeling complex system responses under different management and disturbance scenarios, quantifying outcomes in terms of social values, weighing and assessing tradeoffs, and identifying optimal strategies. Beginning in the 2010s, structured wildfire risk assessment tools were…
Publication Type: Journal Article
Severe fire has impacted populations of the California spotted owl more than fuels management or drought-related tree mortality
Year: 2025
Reducing fuel densities is the primary tool available to improve forest resilience to intensifying disturbance, but implementation is constrained by concern of effects to mature-forest associated species, such as spotted owls (Strix occidentalis). While the negative effects of severe fire on spotted owls are well studied, the influence of drought and fuels management on populations is uncertain, impeding fuels management. We integrated a novel dataset of California disturbance history with passive acoustic monitoring to compare the effects of severe fire, drought, and fuels…
Publication Type: Journal Article