Climate-smart fire planning and management
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Improved management and stewardship of our world’s forests are essential in supporting mitigation and adaptation to climate change. Fire management is an important part of this portfolio of nature-based climate solutions, in large part through increasing forest resilience to catastrophic fire and managing for forest carbon in a manner that accounts for fire risk dynamics. In the USA, government policy now emphasizes climate smart forestry practices that decrease wildfire risk fueled by climate change, and the science underpinning that policy continues to emphasize restoring frequent, low-intensity fire regimes where appropriate to reduce the potential for high-severity wildfires. Although significant social, political, and technical challenges exist, in recent years a new planning concept known as potential wildland fire operational delineations, or PODs, has resulted in changed approaches to fire planning and management that can increase the pace and scale of forest restoration and lead to better fire outcomes. Key innovations include: (1) imbuing wildfire response planning efforts with boundary spanning and anticipatory lenses; (2) stressing evolution and implementation of best practices; (3) co-producing knowledge and infusing analytics with expert knowledge; and (4) delineating fire management and analysis units in ways that are relevant to fire containment operations by linking features like roads, water bodies, and fuel type transitions. As of June 2021, PODs have been implemented on over forty landscapes encompassing National Forest System lands across the western USA, providing utility for planning, communication and outreach, forest prioritization, and incident response strategy development. In this presentation, we will describe how PODs are a natural platform for strategic forest and fire planning that aligns with recommended climate mitigation and adaptation strategies and will provide several real-world examples of PODs in action.
Keywords: Climate change, Sustainable forest management, Landscape management, Innovation.
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