Journal article
Integrated spatial fire and forest management planning
Canadian Journal of Forest Research, Vol.40(12), pp.2370-2383
2010
Abstract
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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- Title
- Integrated spatial fire and forest management planning
- Authors
- Mauricio Acuna (Author) - University of TasmaniaC Palma (Author) - University of British Columbia, CanadaW Cui (Author) - University of Toronto, CanadaD Martell (Author) - University of Toronto, CanadaA Weintraub (Author) - University of Chile, Chile
- Publication details
- Canadian Journal of Forest Research, Vol.40(12), pp.2370-2383
- Publisher
- N R C Research Press
- Date published
- 2010
- DOI
- 10.1139/X10-151
- ISSN
- 0045-5067
- Organisation Unit
- University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; Forest Industries Research Centre; Forest Research Institute
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99450387902621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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