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To understand benefits of integrating management at landscape scales, we estimated cost and projected integrated outcomes for three alternatives for public land management in the interior Columbia River basin over 100 years. Effectiveness was measured in terms of costs and trends of long-term (100 years) land and fire management, landscape health, and reduction of risks across several broad aquatic, terrestrial, landscape, and socioeconomic indicators. Lowest costs with most positive cumulative trends for these variables occurred where alternatives 'step down' assessment and planning from broader scales, focusing restoration efforts sufficiently to overcome opposite effects of traditional reserve protection or commodity management strategies. Integrated management implemented at interconnected scales appears to have multiple positive outcomes. Landscape health, conditions for native fish and wildlife species and jobs from restoration activities can improve, while risks to firefighters and property decline. © 2001 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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- Columbia River basin
- ecosystem dynamics
- fire damage (property)
- fire injuries (humans)
- fire intensity
- fire management
- fire suppression
- firefighting personnel
- fuel loading
- fuel management
- grazing
- hardwood forests
- Idaho
- land management
- landscape ecology
- livestock
- logging
- Montana
- native species (animals)
- native species (plants)
- Oregon
- pine forests
- roads
- site treatments
- statistical analysis
- thinning
- Washington
- weeds
- wilderness areas
- wildfires
- wildlife
- Wyoming
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