EWP Briefing Papershttps://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/xmlui/handle/1794/131262024-03-29T14:29:11Z2024-03-29T14:29:11ZLand manager experiences with resilience in national forest planning and managementCoughlan, Michael R.Ellison, AutumnAbrams, JesseHuber-Stearns, Heidihttps://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/xmlui/handle/1794/258482021-01-11T23:17:20Z2020-01-01T00:00:00ZLand manager experiences with resilience in national forest planning and management
Coughlan, Michael R.; Ellison, Autumn; Abrams, Jesse; Huber-Stearns, Heidi
As the concept of resilience has gained importance as a guiding principle in land management objectives and policies in recent years, there has been some question about how the concept is operationalized in forest planning efforts. In this Joint Fire Science Program-funded research project, we surveyed 428 USDA Forest Service planners to get their perspectives on what resilience means, what it takes to plan for resilience, and the factors that complicate and encourage resilient landscape outcomes. Survey results illustrate how resilience is incorporated into planning and how well it aligns with planning processes and frameworks on a broader scale, including factors that enable or constrain managing for resilience.
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2020-01-01T00:00:00ZPlanning and managing for resilience : lessons from national forest plan revisionsAbrams, JesseGreiner, MichelleTimberlake, ThomasSchultz, Courtney A.Evans, Alexander M.Huber-Stearns, Heidihttps://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/xmlui/handle/1794/258472020-11-10T15:21:03Z2020-01-01T00:00:00ZPlanning and managing for resilience : lessons from national forest plan revisions
Abrams, Jesse; Greiner, Michelle; Timberlake, Thomas; Schultz, Courtney A.; Evans, Alexander M.; Huber-Stearns, Heidi
Recent federal forest and wildfire policies have increasingly united around a vision of restoring resilient landscapes in the face of increasingly destructive wildfires driven by altered forest conditions and climate change. The process of revising forest plans guiding national forest management presents opportunities to reorient management informed by concepts of resilience. This Joint Fire Science Program-funded research used case studies of three recently completed national forest plan revision processes to determine whether and how USDA Forest Service staff were able to plan for resilient outcomes.
The lessons from our comparative analysis are relevant for forest managers and key stakeholders attempting to plan in pursuit of more resilient landscapes.
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2020-01-01T00:00:00ZStrategies for addressing mountain pine beetle outbreaks on national forestsDavis, Emily JaneHuber-Stearns, HeidiAbrams, JesseSteen-Adams, Michelle M.Bone, Christopher,1978-Moseley, CassandraEllison, Autumnhttps://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/xmlui/handle/1794/248142023-02-07T22:26:14Z2019-01-01T00:00:00ZStrategies for addressing mountain pine beetle outbreaks on national forests
Davis, Emily Jane; Huber-Stearns, Heidi; Abrams, Jesse; Steen-Adams, Michelle M.; Bone, Christopher,1978-; Moseley, Cassandra; Ellison, Autumn
Elevated outbreaks of mountain pine beetle (Dendroctonus ponderosae) have occurred on national forests
across the western U.S. over the past two decades. Resulting widespread tree mortality has affected
forest health, tourism and recreation, the timber industry, public safety, and other values. There
is an ongoing need to better understand federal land management approaches to mountain pine beetle (MPB)
and other disturbances on public lands, as well as the variables that support or inhibit effective responses. This
National Science Foundation-funded research investigated MPB response through case studies on national
forestlands in five states, focusing on feedbacks between social and ecological systems during outbreaks.
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2019-01-01T00:00:00ZLessons learned from the Blue Mountains restoration strategy teamHuber-Stearns, HeidiSanto, AnnaDavis, Emily JaneMoseley, CassandraEllison, Autumnhttps://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/xmlui/handle/1794/241622019-09-18T22:34:11Z2018-01-01T00:00:00ZLessons learned from the Blue Mountains restoration strategy team
Huber-Stearns, Heidi; Santo, Anna; Davis, Emily Jane; Moseley, Cassandra; Ellison, Autumn
In January 2013, the Pacific Northwest Region of the Forest Service initiated the Eastside Restoration
Strategy to improve forest health conditions by accelerating the pace and scale of restoration on
national forests in eastern Oregon and Washington. As part of this effort, the Region created a dedicated
interdisciplinary (ID) Blue Mountains Restoration Strategy team to conduct landscape-level planning
across three national forests and innovate strategies to more effectively reach planning decisions. The
team worked on two NEPA processes: a 100,000-acre project on one forest, and 600,000 acres of dry
forest restoration activities across three forests. In 2016, the Forest Service requested a review to identify
transferrable insights from the project.
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2018-01-01T00:00:00Z