Planning and managing for resilience : lessons from national forest plan revisions
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Date
2020
Authors
Abrams, Jesse
Greiner, Michelle
Timberlake, Thomas
Schultz, Courtney A.
Evans, Alexander M.
Huber-Stearns, Heidi
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Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon
Abstract
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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2 pages