scholarly journals Effects of ownership patterns on cross-boundary wildfires

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana M. G. Barros ◽  
Michelle A. Day ◽  
Thomas A. Spies ◽  
Alan A. Ager
Keyword(s):  
Pacific Northwest ◽  
Forest Fires ◽  
Fire Management ◽  
Forest Service ◽  
Risk Governance ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Governance Strategies ◽  
Us Forest Service ◽  
Ownership Patterns

AbstractUnderstanding ownership effects on large wildfires is a precursor to the development of risk governance strategies that better protect people and property and restore fire-adapted ecosystems. We analyzed wildfire events in the Pacific Northwest from 1984 to 2018 to explore how area burned responded to ownership, asking whether particular ownerships burned disproportionately more or less, and whether these patterns varied by forest and grass/shrub vegetation types. While many individual fires showed indifference to property lines, taken as a whole, we found patterns of disproportionate burning for both forest and grass/shrub fires. We found that forest fires avoided ownerships with a concentration of highly valued resources—burning less than expected in managed US Forest Service forested lands, private non-industrial, private industrial, and state lands—suggesting the enforcement of strong fire protection policies. US Forest Service wilderness was the only ownership classification that burned more than expected which may result from the management of natural ignitions for resource objectives, its remoteness or both. Results from this study are relevant to inform perspectives on land management among public and private entities, which may share boundaries but not fire management goals, and support effective cross-boundary collaboration and shared stewardship across all-lands.

Science, Citizenship, and Humanities in the Ancient Forest of H. J. Andrews

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frederick J. Swanson
Keyword(s):  
Pacific Northwest ◽  
Public Perception ◽  
Coniferous Forest ◽  
Landscape Management ◽  
Conservation Strategies ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Ancient Forest ◽  
Management Plans ◽  
Long Term Ecological Research ◽  
Us Forest Service

The H. J. Andrews Experimental Forest Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) program has nurtured a large, highly interdisciplinary community that has been a wonderful seedbed for emergence of ideas from our group, and for my own growth as a scientist, educator, collaborator, and communicator. Collaborations for me as an individual and within the Andrews forest group have grown over the decades: research–land management since the 1950s, ecology–earth sciences since the early 1970s, biophysical sciences–social sciences since the early 1990s, and humanities–arts–sciences over the past dozen years. As a US Forest Service scientist in seamless collaboration with academic and land manager colleagues, the stable yet dynamic community that the LTER program fosters has served as a great platform for connecting science lessons with society through many means, ranging from development of regional conservation strategies and landscape management plans to storytelling. This is a practice of citizenship by individual scientists and by a science-based team. The sustained learning that the LTER program has underwritten gives scientists a foundation for communicating findings from science and discussing their implications with the public, and the forest itself is a great stage for these conversations. I have had a career of immersion in the International Biological Program (IBP) and in the LTER program since its inception. After completing graduate studies in geology in 1972, I had the good fortune to join the early stages of IBP in the Coniferous Forest Biome Project at the H. J. Andrews Experimental Forest (AND) in the Cascade Range of Oregon. Our team of forest and stream ecologists, and a few earth scientists, had the decade of the 1970s to coalesce, mature, and craft stories of the ecosystems of the Pacific Northwest. The Andrews forest was a wonderful place to do that. It has a complex, ancient forest with nearly 100-m tall trees and fast, cold, clear, mountain streams whose beauty and chill takes your breath away. The year 1980 was pivotal for the group in three ways. First, Jerry Franklin led a synthesis of our team’s knowledge of old-growth forests, which set the stage for major transformation in public perception and policy toward federal forests a decade later and, incidentally, changed our lives.

Snag Management on National Forests in the Pacific Northwest—1984

1986 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 41-43
Author(s):  
Evelyn L. Bull ◽  
Jack Ward Thomas ◽  
Kirk Horn
Keyword(s):  
Pacific Northwest ◽  
Forest Service ◽  
National Forests ◽  
Usda Forest Service ◽  
North West ◽  
West Region ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Management Recommendations

Abstract A questionnaire was sent to each Ranger District in the Pacific North-west Region of the USDA Forest Service to get information on present snag-management programs. Ninety-five percent of the responding Ranger Districts left snags at levels that ranged from 0.15 snags/ha (0 06/ac) to 12-15 snags/ha (5-6/ac) on all forested lands. Live trees were intentionally left as future snags on 93% of the Ranger Districts. Live trees were killed to create snags on 41% of the Ranger Districts. Management recommendations are made as to the kind of snags to leave and methods of maintaining them. West. J. Appl. For. 1:41-43, April 1986

Managers' Views of Dispersed Recreation along Forest Roads

1978 ◽  
Vol 76 (9) ◽  
pp. 583-585
Author(s):  
Kent B. Downing ◽  
Cynthia M. Moutsinas
Keyword(s):  
Pacific Northwest ◽  
Natural Resource ◽  
Road Vehicle ◽  
Forest Roads ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Resource Managers ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Natural Resource Managers ◽  
Hunting And Fishing

Abstract A survey of public and private natural-resource managers in the Pacific Northwest revealed considerable generalized support for dispersed recreation along forest roads. Most managers indicated they would favor some activities, such as hiking, hunting, and fishing. But they would strongly discourage other activities such as extended living and most forms of off-road vehicle use.

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