The potential for enhancing fire resistance in western Cascadian forests, estimated via inventory analysis and management modeling, is contrasted with post-fire FIA observations. Weather’s dominating influence on observed effects suggests management interventions will be most successful on the minority of area within all fire perimeters that burns under benign weather.
Learning Objectives:
understand how adjustments to business-as-usual forest management in westside forests can elevate resistance to stand-replacing fire, and the financial implications of a shift to such fire-focused silviculture;
understand and discuss statistical summaries of tree survival and carbon dynamics outcomes when fire visits westside forests and the predictive power of fire resistance metrics calculated from the forest inventory;
understand how short and medium-term fire outcomes for survival, stocking, and regeneration of trees relate to both management choices concerning intended age structures and predominantly weather-driven fire severity.
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