Tradeoffs between US national forest harvest targets and fuel management to reduce wildfire transmission to the wildland urban interface

摘要: Abstract US public land management agencies are faced with multiple, often conflicting objectives to meet targets and produce a wide range of ecosystem services expected from lands. One example is managing the growing wildfire risk human ecological values while meeting programmatic harvest for economic outputs mandated in agency budgets. Studies examining strategic tradeoffs on federal lands program efficiencies rare. In this study we used 79 western national forests examine between forest scenarios targeting wildland urban interface (WUI) those convertible volume production targets. We quantified frontiers measure how efficiency affected by prioritizing treatments areas that transmit fire WUI. The results showed strong scale effects frontiers, more importantly substantial variation among planning forests. Prioritizing reduce transmission WUI resulted an average reduction about 248 m3 per ha treated. analysis also identified opportunities where both can be achieved. This work represents first large-scale tradeoff key goals fuel programs