Modeling trade-offs between fire threat reduction and late-seral forest structure

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  • David E. Calkin
  • Susan Stevens
  • James K. Agee
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Evaluating the effects of managing for one forest resource in terms of associated impacts on other resources is not easy. Yet methods to identify potential trade-offs among forest resources are necessary to inform people about the implications of management options on public land. This paper uses a case study from a forest reserve in the northwestern United States to quantify trade-offs between fire threat (FT) and late-seral forest (LSF) structure at stand and landscape levels. Simulation of forest dynamics was done with and without silvicultural treatments. A landscape optimization algorithm maximized FT reduction subject to constraints on amount of LSF structure and total area treated. Results suggest that compatibility between the two objectives is possible at the landscape level when LSF structure is about 45% or less of the total reserve area. Conflict can exist between them at the stand level and when more area is required to be in LSF structure in the reserve landscape. Résumé : Il est difficile d’évaluer les effets de l’aménagement d’une ressource forestière en termes d’impacts sur les autres ressources. Toutefois, des méthodes visant à déterminer les compromis possibles entre les ressources forestières sont nécessaires pour informer la population des implications des différentes options d’aménagement sur les terres publiques. Cet article part d’une étude de cas faite dans une réserve forestière du nord-ouest des États-Unis pour quantifier les compromis entre les risques d’incendie et la structure de la forêt de fin de succession aux échelles du peuplement et du paysage. La simulation de la dynamique forestière a été effectuée avec ou sans traitements sylvicoles. Un algorithme d’optimisation à l’échelle du paysage a maximisé la réduction des risques d’incendie conditionnellement à des contraintes quant à la proportion de forêt ayant une structure de fin de succession et de la superficie totale traitée. Les résultats indiquent que les deux objectifs peuvent être compatibles à l’échelle du paysage lorsque la forêt ayant une structure de fin de succession occupe environ 45 % ou moins de la superficie totale de la réserve. À l’échelle du peuplement, la situation peut devenir conflictuelle lorsqu’il est nécessaire d’avoir une plus grande superficie de forêt ayant une structure de fin de succession dans le paysage de la réserve. [Traduit par la Rédaction] Calkin et al. 2574

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تاریخ انتشار 2005