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Abstract
Fire suppression, vegetation management activities, wildfires, grazing, climate change, and other factors result in constantly changing vegetation and habitat conditions across millions of hectares in the Western United States. In recent years, the size and number of large wildfires has grown, threatening lives, property, and ecosystem integrity. At the same time, habitat for species of concern is often becoming less suitable, the economic vitality of many natural resource-dependent human communities is declining, and resources available for land management are limited. Techniques are needed to prioritize where natural resource management activities are likely to be most effective and result in desirable conditions. Solutions driven by single-resource concerns have proven problematic in most cases, as multiple ecological resources and human systems are necessarily intertwined.
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Keywords
Landscapes,
state-and-transition modeling,
vegetation mapping,
fuels,
wildfire hazard,
treatment costs,
biomass,
wildlife habitat,
decision support,
climate change,
watersheds,
community economics,
all ownerships,
geographic information systems,
landscape assessment
Citation
Hemstrom, Miles A.; Halofsky, Jessica E.; Triepke, F. Jack; Barbour, R. James; Salwasser, Janine. 2014. Overview of the integrated landscape assessment project. In: Halofsky, Jessica E.; Creutzburg, Megan K.; Hemstrom, Miles A., eds. 2014. Integrating social, economic, and ecological values across large landscapes. Gen.Tech. Rep. PNW-GTR-896. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station: 1-14. Chapter 1.
