气候变化领域集成服务门户(CCPortal): Identifying opportunities for the use of broadcast prescribed fire on Colorado's Front Range

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DOI	10.1016/j.foreco.2019.117655
	Identifying opportunities for the use of broadcast prescribed fire on Colorado's Front Range
	Addington R.N.; Tavernia B.G.; Caggiano M.D.; Thompson M.P.; Lawhon J.D.; Sanderson J.S.
发表日期	2020
ISSN	0378-1127
卷号	458
英文摘要	Increasing the pace and scale of fuel treatments to protect social and ecological values from severe wildfire is a major initiative of numerous land management agencies, organizations, and collaborative groups throughout the western United States, including the Colorado Front Range. Broadcast prescribed fire is a relatively low-cost, effective management tool for achieving fuels reduction at scale but is often challenging to implement due to complex socio-ecological factors. We present results of a multi-criteria suitability analysis intended to identify need, opportunities, and constraints for the use of broadcast prescribed fire on Colorado's Front Range based on spatial factors including wildfire hazard, vegetation and fuel types, historical fire regimes, presence of existing fuel treatments, wildland-urban interface development, and predicted prescribed fire behavior. Within our 1.7 million-hectare (ha) analysis area, over 228,000 ha (approximately 13%) were classified as highly suitable for broadcast prescribed fire. Areas of high suitability were split roughly 50:50 between public federal lands (5.3%) and private lands (6.1%), emphasizing the importance of implementing prescribed fire across ownerships to meet management objectives at scale. Patch size analysis revealed opportunities for large-scale (>500 ha) prescribed fire projects spatially distributed throughout the Front Range. These areas may serve as anchors for developing projects focused on protecting values at risk, including wildland-urban interface communities and water resources. Results of this analysis can be used in collaborative settings to develop comprehensive fuels reduction and forest restoration strategies that incorporate the use of prescribed fire, including identifying where mechanical treatments could be applied on the landscape to facilitate the use of broadcast prescribed fire over large extents, as well as where prescribed fire may be a viable option for long-term maintenance of treatments. While our analysis focuses on the Colorado Front Range, it can be replicated in other fire-prone areas of the western United States based on the availability of local data. © 2019 Elsevier B.V.
关键词	Conservation Ecology Forestry Fuels Hazards Restoration Water resources Forest restoration Fuel treatments Mixed-conifer forests Ponderosa pines Wildfire hazards Fires coniferous forest landownership multicriteria analysis prescribed burning private land restoration ecology risk perception vegetation type wildfire Conservation Ecology Forestry Fuels Hazards Restoration Front Range Coniferophyta
语种	英语
来源机构	Forest Ecology and Management
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/133072
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Addington R.N.,Tavernia B.G.,Caggiano M.D.,et al. Identifying opportunities for the use of broadcast prescribed fire on Colorado's Front Range[J]. Forest Ecology and Management,2020,458.
APA	Addington R.N.,Tavernia B.G.,Caggiano M.D.,Thompson M.P.,Lawhon J.D.,&Sanderson J.S..(2020).Identifying opportunities for the use of broadcast prescribed fire on Colorado's Front Range.,458.
MLA	Addington R.N.,et al."Identifying opportunities for the use of broadcast prescribed fire on Colorado's Front Range".458(2020).