The Forest Resilience Treatment Planner Prototype

Jun 6, 2021
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A Prototype Decision-Support System for Forest Management Planning

The Forest Resilience Treatment Planner is a set of tools for exploring the outcomes of fuels treatment scenarios.

This Decision Support System consists of two or more models linked together: We have prototyped it with the CBI Forest Resilience Model built in EEMS (eemsonline.org) and the USFS' Forest Vegetation Simulator, or FVS.

It is a desktop application that uses ArcGIS to allow the user to draw polygons of planned treatments, fill out a simple form describing the type of the treatments, run the forest growth model into the future, and then send the resulting forest data into the Forest Resilience Model to evaluate the impacts of the treatments on the future forest's resilience or resistance to wildfire.

Additional models can be added to the DSS-- for example, for evaluating the impacts of vegetation treatments on habitat connectivity.

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forest resilience
Citation
Conservation Biology Institute. 2021. The Forest Resilience Treatment Planner Prototype. In: Data Basin. [First published in Data Basin on Jun 6, 2021; Retrieved on Jun 25, 2025] <https://databasin.org/articles/11df8d31c8bc412ea9945b7db8323c9e/>

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