Land manager experiences with resilience in national forest planning and management
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Date
2020
Authors
Coughlan, Michael R.
Ellison, Autumn
Abrams, Jesse
Huber-Stearns, Heidi
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Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon
Abstract
Through a Joint Fire Science-funded research project,
we investigated the concept of resilience as a
means of constructively living with disturbances
such as fire and insect outbreaks on national forest
lands, including what resilience means, what it
takes to plan for resilient outcomes, and the factors
that complicate and encourage these outcomes.
Previous reports from this research document
how agency policy mandates, approaches, and
resources encourage the use of resilience in planning
and compare three
recently completed national forest plan revisions in terms of how they incorporated resilience concepts. This report focuses on
how resilience is incorporated in project planning
on national forests and how well it aligns with
planning processes and frameworks on a broader
scale. We draw upon data from a national survey
of Forest Service planners conducted in 2020.
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18 pages