California Wildfire Resilience Core Metrics Rating Process and Results

摘要: The California Wildfire & Forest Resilience Task Force (Task Force) has developed regionally-adapted resources to lessen wildfire risk to communities and enhance broader statewide ecosystem resilience. This includes a large set of metrics intended to support a wide range of organizations in prioritizing, planning and/or implementing management actions. The Science Advisory Panel to the Task Force (SAP) was asked to provide expert advice to inform the selection of a subset of “core” metrics for reporting outcomes and progress towards resilience goals. We used survey tools to collect and synthesize the scientific expertise of the SAP as well as other experts regarding existing “Regional Resource Kit” (RRK) metrics as well as potential suggested metrics. This report summarizes the survey process and results. We used two rounds of surveys to collect expert opinion on metrics. Round 1 asked respondents to 1) identify criteria for core metrics, 2) identify metrics from the Regional Resource Kits (RRKs) that were believed to be inadequate based on those criteria, and 3) recommend additional metrics not included in the original set. Round 2 asked respondents to rate the resulting set of 115 metrics. The Round 1 results indicated that selecting a useful set of core metrics depended on their intended application (e.g., planning vs.reporting), the intended audience (e.g., policy makers, scientists, and/or the public), and resilience outcomes (e.g., immediate wildfire risk reduction versus long-term ecological health). In Round 2 we asked respondents to rate each metric on how well it measured each of three broad, overlapping resilience goals identified …