Interactions between societal goals and restoration of dry forest landscapes in western North America

Franklin, Jerry F.; Hagmann, R. Keala; Urgenson, Lauren S.

doi:10.1007/s10980-014-0077-0

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“…Many ecologists, managers, and policy-makers are calling for restoration of many watersheds and landscapes (e.g., see Lertzman and Fall 1998;Bosworth 2006;Noss et al 2006;ISAB 2011;Franklin and Johnson 2012;North 2012;North et al 2012a;Franklin et al 2014;Stephens et al 2014). For example, the federal Forest Landscape Restoration Act of 2009 called for ''collaborative, science-based ecosystem restoration of priority forest landscapes.''…”

Section: Historical Context-unintended Consequencesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Patch level prescriptions should aim to restore variable patterns within stands and begin to dissolve the uniformity achieved in prior stand-level prescriptions Franklin et al 2013;Reynolds et al 2013;Jain et al 2008;North et al 2009); especially in even-aged stands. Presettlement era and contemporary forests with active wildfire regimes (e.g., Fulè et al 2012;Harrod et al 1999;Larson and Churchill 2012;Lydersen et al 2013; Fig.…”

Section: Implicationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In many dry pine and mixed-conifer landscapes, restoring the pattern and abundance of old trees and old forests should be a central theme of both regional and local landscape planning (Franklin and Johnson 2012;Franklin et al 2013;USFS 2012;Spies et al 2006). In other locations, recent bark beetle outbreaks and wildfires have created an abundance of snags; the largest among these are especially useful to retain as snag and down wood structure.…”

Section: Implicationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Local landscape restoration projects should increase abundance of closed canopy, old forest patches, especially in refugial settings (e.g. Franklin et al 2013). To improve their longevity, restoration projects can be used to help provide firetolerant contexts surrounding them, (Box 5).…”

Section: Implicationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Restoring fire-prone Inland Pacific landscapes: seven core principles

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Context More than a century of forest and fire management of Inland Pacific landscapes has transformed their successional and disturbance dynamics. Regional connectivity of many terrestrial and aquatic habitats is fragmented, flows of some ecological and physical processes have been altered in space and time, and the frequency, size and intensity of many disturbances that configure these habitats have been altered. Current efforts to address these impacts yield a small footprint in comparison to wildfires and insect outbreaks. Moreover, many current projects emphasize thinning and fuels reduction within individual forest stands, while overlooking large-scale habitat connectivity and disturbance flow issues. Methods We provide a framework for landscape restoration, offering seven principles. We discuss their implication for management, and illustrate their application with examples. Results Historical forests were spatially heterogeneous at multiple scales. Heterogeneity was the result of variability and interactions among native ecological -015-0218-0 patterns and processes, including successional and disturbance processes regulated by climatic and topographic drivers. Native flora and fauna were adapted to these conditions, which conferred a measure of resilience to variability in climate and recurrent contagious disturbances. Conclusions To restore key characteristics of this resilience to current landscapes, planning and management are needed at ecoregion, local landscape, successional patch, and tree neighborhood scales. Restoration that works effectively across ownerships and allocations will require active thinking about landscapes as socio-ecological systems that provide services to people within the finite capacities of ecosystems. We focus attention on landscape-level prescriptions as foundational to restoration planning and execution.Landscape Ecol (2015) 30:1805-1835 DOI 10.1007/s10980

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Section: Historical Context-unintended Consequencesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Implicationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Implicationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Implicationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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“…Thus, restoration of more fire-resistant and resilient forests is an important adaptation approach. Franklin and Hagmann (2014) provide their views on this issue and describe the societal goals, barriers, and approaches during the restoration. Two other studies investigate ongoing restorations in China.…”

Section: Ecosystem Restorationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Coupled natural and human systems: a landscape ecology perspective

Chen

Liu

2014

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Toward a more ecologically informed view of severe forest fires

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Abstract.We use the historical presence of high-severity fire patches in mixed-conifer forests of the western United States to make several points that we hope will encourage development of a more ecologically informed view of severe wildland fire effects. First, many plant and animal species use, and have sometimes evolved to depend on, severely burned forest conditions for their persistence. Second, evidence from fire history studies also suggests that a complex mosaic of severely burned conifer patches was common historically in the West. Third, to maintain ecological integrity in forests born of mixed-severity fire, land managers will have to accept some severe fire and maintain the integrity of its aftermath. Lastly, public education messages surrounding fire could be modified so that people better understand and support management designed to maintain ecologically appropriate sizes and distributions of severe fire and the complex early-seral forest conditions it creates.

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Interactions between societal goals and restoration of dry forest landscapes in western North America

Cited by 21 publications

References 53 publications

Restoring fire-prone Inland Pacific landscapes: seven core principles

Restoring fire-prone Inland Pacific landscapes: seven core principles

Coupled natural and human systems: a landscape ecology perspective

Toward a more ecologically informed view of severe forest fires

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