Multi-Jurisdictional Application of ForestERA Landscape Decision Support Tools in North-Central New Mexico. Final Report to the Joint Fire Science Program, Project No. 04-2-1-27

摘要

The North-Central New Mexico Landscape Assessment was a collaborative, landscapescale effort that engaged stakeholders in a series of meetings and workshops to identify and prioritize areas of forest and associated lands in greatest need of management attention. The focal landscape assessment area included public, tribal, and private lands within a 3.4 million-acre study region. Our 2-year process culminated in a three-day workshop in October 2006, where over 50 regional stakeholders were convened to address these issues using a spatial decision support system designed by the Forest Ecosystem Restoration Analysis (ForestERA) Project at Northern Arizona University (NAU). ForestERA staff, along with staff from the Bureau of Land Management, Forest Guild and the Australian National University, provided a forum where stakeholder values, concerns, and ideas could be translated into spatially-explicit prioritization and management action scenarios based on the best available science. The result was a set of science-based solutions which met national policy priorities while remaining grounded in the needs of local stakeholders.