Identify and prioritize landscapes for treatment.
1. Recognize and support collaborative solutions for the local prioritization of landscapes for treatment (i.e. WUI, Middle ground and back country or wilderness) to reduce potential large fire costs and mitigate negative consequences while considering the benefits of wildland fire.
2. Use completed risk and hazard assessments such as Westwide Risk Assessment (state and private), Regional Ecosystem Assessments (BLM), State Forest Assessments, Community Wildfire Protection Plan risk assessments (state, private, federal), and/or local risk and hazard assessments to prioritize landscapes for treatment and for building capacity for collaboration.
3. Consider local and regional priorities such as protection and enhancement of sensitive species habitat, air quality, and economic opportunities when utilizing data to prioritize treatments.
4. Enable local collaboratives to use national, regional, Tribal, and local data to inform scale and interconnectivity of priority focal landscapes.
5. Recognize the value of previous investments and prioritize ongoing maintenance, enhancement of past treatment areas, or areas of post fire restoration in allocation of funds.
6. Provide opportunities to ground truth existing data, which feeds into the various risk and hazard assessments.
7. Utilize local and traditional ecological knowledge of fire history and vegetative conditions in prioritizing projects and informing the decision-making process.
8. Define treatment effectiveness and collect data to use in identification and prioritization of projects and in promoting the positive effects of hazardous fuels treatments.
Katie Lighthall
541-408-3048
klighthall@bendcable.com
Short Term (0-2 years), Mid Term (2-4 years), Long Term (>4 years), & Ongoing
Other collaborators: NGOs. Supp info: Decision makers at the appropriate level will be ultimately responsible for prioritizing landscapes for treatment. Feb 2014 - Action 1.2 WG - USFS Pacific NW region taking the lead to examine what scalable tools are available to assist in this decision-making process. Will recognize and support collaborative solutions for the local prioritization of landscapes for treatment to reduce potential large fire costs and mitigate negative consequences while considering the benefits of wildland fire.
