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Land management planning at broad scales requires integrative techniques to understand and synthe... more Land management planning at broad scales requires integrative techniques to understand and synthesize the effects of different land management activities and address socioeconomic and conservation concerns. The Integrated Landscape Assessment Project was developed to support the vital but complex task of broadscale integration of information to assess ecological sustainability at multiple scales. The project supports ecosystem management planning at a regional scale across all lands of Arizona, New Mexico, Oregon, and Washington by simulating landscape dynamics using state-and-transition models (STMs) and linking model output to management planning considerations such as fuel conditions, wildlife habitat, community economics, and climate change. The stakeholders and target users for the project products include natural resource planners, decisionmakers, and modelers who can provide additional analyses in support of planning and policy. This chapter reports on the STM component of th...
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Management and Conservation in the Coniferous Forests of Western North America, 2003
... function, including wildlife habitat (Franklin et al. 1981). Taiga and boreal forestTiaga and... more ... function, including wildlife habitat (Franklin et al. 1981). Taiga and boreal forestTiaga and boreal forests extend across a large area from central Alaska well into British Columbia (Fig. 2.1). The climate is cool and moist with ...
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Natural Resources and Environmental Issues, 2011
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Landscape and Urban Planning, 2007
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Research Paper Pacific Northwest Research Station Usda Forest Service, 2009
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Background/Question/Methods Information on the effects of management activities such as fuel redu... more Background/Question/Methods Information on the effects of management activities such as fuel reduction treatments and of processes such as vegetation growth and disturbance on fire hazard can help land managers prioritize treatments across a landscape to best meet management goals. State and transition models (STMs), such as the Vegetation Dynamics Development Tool (VDDT), allow landscape-scale simulations that incorporate effects of succession, management, and disturbance on vegetation composition and structure. STMs have been used for many different types of landscape-scale assessments. However, STMs such as VDDT do not currently assess fuels and fire hazard for different vegetation states. We integrated VDDT with a software application called the Fuel Characteristic Classification System (FCCS) to enable assessment of fuel properties and fire hazard with succession, disturbance, and management across landscapes over time. We created FCCS fuelbeds from inventory plots for each veg...
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USDA Forest Service - Research Note PNW-RN
Riparian or streamside areas are the focus of considerable management and public interest in the ... more Riparian or streamside areas are the focus of considerable management and public interest in the interior Northwest. Unfortunately, the vegetation and geomorphic characteristics of streamside areas are difficult to assess across large landscapes because streamside areas are geographically small in much of the arid interior. However, managers and scientists need methods to assess streamside conditions across large landscapes for land management planning, watershed analysis, and landscape simulation modeling. We present proposed methods for characterizing streamside vegetation and topography by using geographic information systems, terrain models, and photo-interpreted vegetation maps. We proposed application of resulting information for restoration planning and linkage to landscape wildlife and aquatic habitat models in the upper Grande Ronde subbasin of northeastern Oregon.
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Vegetation patterns in eastern Oregon and Washington are largely a result of environmental condit... more Vegetation patterns in eastern Oregon and Washington are largely a result of environmental conditions, species distributions, plant ecology, and disturbances operating at multiple scales and in different environments. In turn, vegetative patterns strongly influence the amount, severity, and distribution of disturbances generated by various agents. This paper focuses on the latter - the relations between vegetation pattern, disturbance, and forest health and productivity. At all scales, vulnerability to disturbance appears to increase when vegetation condition and pattern differs from the historical or expected range for a given environment. Generally, forests that are older, composed of larger trees, denser, more homogeneous, or more contiguous than would be expected under natural or historical disturbance regimes are more vulnerable to mortality from insects and disease. Factors related to vulnerability include site potential, host abundance, canopy structure, host size, patch vigo...
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Land management planning at broad scales requires integrative techniques to understand and synthe... more Land management planning at broad scales requires integrative techniques to understand and synthesize the effects of different land management activities and address socioeconomic and conservation concerns. The Integrated Landscape Assessment Project was developed to support the vital but complex task of broadscale integration of information to assess ecological sustainability at multiple scales. The project supports ecosystem management planning at a regional scale across all lands of Arizona, New Mexico, Oregon, and Washington by simulating landscape dynamics using state-and-transition models (STMs) and linking model output to management planning considerations such as fuel conditions, wildlife habitat, community economics, and climate change. The stakeholders and target users for the project products include natural resource planners, decisionmakers, and modelers who can provide additional analyses in support of planning and policy. This chapter reports on the STM component of th...
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Management and Conservation in the Coniferous Forests of Western North America, 2003
... function, including wildlife habitat (Franklin et al. 1981). Taiga and boreal forestTiaga and... more ... function, including wildlife habitat (Franklin et al. 1981). Taiga and boreal forestTiaga and boreal forests extend across a large area from central Alaska well into British Columbia (Fig. 2.1). The climate is cool and moist with ...
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Background/Question/Methods Information on the effects of management activities such as fuel redu... more Background/Question/Methods Information on the effects of management activities such as fuel reduction treatments and of processes such as vegetation growth and disturbance on fire hazard can help land managers prioritize treatments across a landscape to best meet management goals. State and transition models (STMs), such as the Vegetation Dynamics Development Tool (VDDT), allow landscape-scale simulations that incorporate effects of succession, management, and disturbance on vegetation composition and structure. STMs have been used for many different types of landscape-scale assessments. However, STMs such as VDDT do not currently assess fuels and fire hazard for different vegetation states. We integrated VDDT with a software application called the Fuel Characteristic Classification System (FCCS) to enable assessment of fuel properties and fire hazard with succession, disturbance, and management across landscapes over time. We created FCCS fuelbeds from inventory plots for each veg...
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USDA Forest Service - Research Note PNW-RN
Riparian or streamside areas are the focus of considerable management and public interest in the ... more Riparian or streamside areas are the focus of considerable management and public interest in the interior Northwest. Unfortunately, the vegetation and geomorphic characteristics of streamside areas are difficult to assess across large landscapes because streamside areas are geographically small in much of the arid interior. However, managers and scientists need methods to assess streamside conditions across large landscapes for land management planning, watershed analysis, and landscape simulation modeling. We present proposed methods for characterizing streamside vegetation and topography by using geographic information systems, terrain models, and photo-interpreted vegetation maps. We proposed application of resulting information for restoration planning and linkage to landscape wildlife and aquatic habitat models in the upper Grande Ronde subbasin of northeastern Oregon.
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Vegetation patterns in eastern Oregon and Washington are largely a result of environmental condit... more Vegetation patterns in eastern Oregon and Washington are largely a result of environmental conditions, species distributions, plant ecology, and disturbances operating at multiple scales and in different environments. In turn, vegetative patterns strongly influence the amount, severity, and distribution of disturbances generated by various agents. This paper focuses on the latter - the relations between vegetation pattern, disturbance, and forest health and productivity. At all scales, vulnerability to disturbance appears to increase when vegetation condition and pattern differs from the historical or expected range for a given environment. Generally, forests that are older, composed of larger trees, denser, more homogeneous, or more contiguous than would be expected under natural or historical disturbance regimes are more vulnerable to mortality from insects and disease. Factors related to vulnerability include site potential, host abundance, canopy structure, host size, patch vigo...
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