Blue Mountain National Forests, northeastern Oregon

• Production possibility frontiers and socioecological tradeoffs for restoration of fire adapted forests.
• Economic opportunities and trade-offs in collaborative forest landscape restoration.
• The economic reality of the forest and fuel management deficit on a fire prone western US national forest. 

Deschutes National Forest, central Oregon

• Restoration of fire in managed forests: a model to prioritize landscapes and analyze tradeoffs.

Four Forest Restoration Initiative, northern Arizona

• Scenario planning tools were used to explore tradeoffs between improving fire resilience in fire adapted ponderosa pine forests versus economic objectives given a century of fire exclusion. Economic returns from treatments that typically remove low value trees making it challenging to scale up management to create landscapes that change large wildfire behavior.
• Balancing ecological and economic objectives in restoration of fire frequent forests – Case study from the Four Forest Restoration Initiative.

Scenario planning on the Stanislaus National Forest, California

• Scenario planning is being used by managers on the Stanislaus National Forest to explore forest management scenarios with scientifically defensible information with which to make transparent land management decisions at multiple scales. This work focuses on five major management objectives: 1) fire-adapted communities, 2) forest resilience, 3) fire dynamics, 4) California spotted owl, and 5) economic diversity and social well-being. 

New Mexico State Forest Action Plan

• New Mexico developed a statewide priority map for restoration and analyzed effects of climate change, biodiversity, water, and fire risk to communities and infrastructure. The results were incorporated into their State Forest Action Plan.

Washington State

• Washington State Department of Natural Resources used scenario planning to complete two landscape assessments of restoration priorities in response to House Bill 1784, directing the agency to prioritize state lands for treatments to reduce wildfire risk, prepare for climate change, and sustain wildlife habitat.

Assessment of management tradeoffs on western U.S. national forests

• Tradeoffs between U.S. national forest harvest targets and fuel management to reduce wildfire transmission to the wildland urban interface.

Application of scenario planning for prioritizing agency national forest and fuel management initiatives

Planning for future fire: scenario analysis of an accelerated fuel reduction plan for the western United States.

New Mexico restoration priorities

Planning for future fires