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Integrated spacial fire and forest management planning

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posted on 2023-05-17, 05:21 authored by Acuna, MA, Palma, C, Cui, W, Martell, B, Weintraub, A
Forest management planners usually treat potential fire loss estimates as exogenous parameters in their timber production planning processes. When they do so, they do not account for the fact that forest access road construction, timber harvesting, and silvicultural activities can alter a landscape's vegetation or fuel composition, and they ignore the possibility that such activities may influence future fire losses. We develop an integrated fire and forest management planning methodology that accounts for and exploits such interactions. Our methodology is based on fire occurrence, suppression, and spread models, a fire protection value model that identifies crucial stands, the harvesting of which can have a significant influence on the spread of fires across the landscape, and a spatially explicit timber harvest scheduling model. We illustrate its use by applying it to a forest management unit in the boreal forest region of the province of Alberta in western Canada. We found that for our study area, integrated fire - forest management planning based on our methodology could result in an 8.1% increase in net present value when compared with traditional planning in which fire loss is treated as an exogenous factor.

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Publication title

Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Volume

40

Issue

12

Pagination

2370-2383

ISSN

1208-6037

Department/School

School of Architecture and Design

Publisher

NRC research press

Place of publication

Canada

Repository Status

  • Restricted

Socio-economic Objectives

Forestry not elsewhere classified

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