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This project compares and evaluates long-term impacts of fire suppression, prescribed fire, wildfire, and fuel treatments on the long-term potential for Lake Tahoe forests to sequester carbon or otherwise contribute to reducing greenhouse gas emissions in a global change context. The project explicitly assesses the tradeoffs among management for C sequestration, prescribed fires, mechanical fuel treatments, and stochastically recurring large and severe wildland fires as well as demonstrate an operational method for explicit consideration of greenhouse gases in landscape-level forest management.
Completed
2009
2010
2012
$258,817
Alan Heyvaert (alan.heyvaert@dri.edu)
09/20/2017
09/20/2017
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04.01.01.0047 - P049: Management Options for Reducing Wildfire Risk and Maximizing Carbon Storage Under Future Climate
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Funding
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$258,817
$258,817
$0
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| Unknown or Unassigned | $258,817 | $258,817 | $0 |
| Grand Total | $258,817 | $258,817 | $0 |
Reported Expenditures
Reported Expenditures
| Total | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | |
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| Southern Nevada Public Land Management Act (Pacifi... | $258,817 | $64,705 | $64,704 | $64,704 | $64,704 |
| Grand Total | $258,817 | $64,705 | $64,704 | $64,704 | $64,704 |
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In the Lake Tahoe Basin (LTB), managers must balance forest health objectives to restore fire-adapted ecosystems and protect wildlife habitat with fuels management objectives to reduce the threat of wildfire and protect communities.
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Notes
| 07/17/2017 3:17 PM | System | Objectives: Our objectives for this project were, 1) to evaluate the emergent responses of multiple interacting processes, namely climate change and wildfire regime, on total forest carbon and succession dynamics, and 2) to evaluate the long-term effects of fuel treatments in mitigating wildfires and sequestering forest carbon (C), in a contemporary and climate change context, within the regional landscape of the Lake Tahoe Basin, CA and NV. |
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| 07/17/2017 3:16 PM | System | Findings: • Our study illustrated the potential for continued forest growth and sequestration of above and below ground C across the LTB, which remained a C sink (Net Ecosystem Productivity > 0), despite any potential shifts in climate in the coming decades. This was a landscape legacy effect from the Comstock Era logging in the 1880’s and the resulting regeneration and growth of the forest into the next century. • Effects from future changes in climate in the LTB included reduced establishment ability of the subalpine and upper montane tree species; stimulated growth of particular conifers, aspen and re-sprouting shrub species; and enhanced wildfire activity. Changes in the wildfire regime had the strongest impact on forest response. • An increase in wildfire activity (area burned) in a changing climate caused higher mortality rates across the LTB and lower C sequestration potential by year 2110. *** See www.fs.fed.us/PSW/partnerships/tahoescience for additional findings. |
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| 07/17/2017 3:15 PM | System | Management Implications: • Forested landscapes are subject to increasingly diverse and often competing demands from society. In the Lake Tahoe Basin (LTB), managers must balance forest health objectives to restore fire-adapted ecosystems and protect wildlife habitat with fuels management objectives to reduce the threat of wildfire and protect communities. In the near future, these objectives may also include storing carbon (C) or limiting C emissions. • Managing the forested landscape in the LTB to meet the multiple goals of improved forest health, reduced fire risk, and atmospheric C regulation presents new challenges, especially in the context of changing climate regimes and altered disturbance regimes. Faced with the prospect of increasing regulations of carbon emissions, managers may be forced to balance the use of forest treatments for reducing fire risk against the implications for carbon sequestration. *** See www.fs.fed.us/PSW/partnerships/tahoescience for additional management implications. |