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Type: Conference Paper
Author(s): Young-Hwan Kim; Pete Bettinger
Compiler(s): Michael Bevers; Tara M. Barrett
Publication Date: 2005

This paper presents preliminary work associated with scheduling fuel management treatments to achieve timber harvest and landscape pattern goals. Four landscape patterns of management activities are modeled (dispersed, clumped, random, and regular). The overall intent of this research is to examine the effects of spatial and temporal placement of fuel management activities on resulting wildfire behavior although we do not provide results on wildfire behavior here. However, in this paper, we describe the forest planning scheduling processes that provide solutions that both place activities in a pattern on the landscape, and achieve commodity production goals. Results indicate that the scheduling methodology developed with this preliminary research is adequate in allowing one to optimize the spatial pattern of management units across a landscape while attempting to also achieve a commodity production goal. The scheduling methodologies developed in this study are expected to facilitate an understanding of the impact of the spatial variation of management activities on wildfire behavior and management goals.

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Citation: Kim, Y., and P. Bettinger. 2005. Spatial optimization of fuel management activities, in Bevers, M. and Barrett, T. M., Systems Analysis in Forest Resources: Proceedings of the 2003 Symposium. Stevenson, WA. USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station,Portland, OR. p. 205-214,General Technical Report PNW-GTR-656.

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Topics:
Fire Behavior    Fuels    Mapping    Models
Regions:
Keywords:
  • forest management
  • fuel management
  • GIS
  • logging
  • Oregon
  • statistical analysis
  • wildfires
Tall Timbers Record Number: 21650Location Status: In-fileCall Number: A13.88:PNW-656Abstract Status: Fair use, Okay, Reproduced by permission
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FRAMES Record Number: 46000

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