Planning: FIRE-PLAN: Social-Ecological Engineering and Design of Sustainable (SEEDS) Boreal Forest Fuel Breaks

规划：FIRE-PLAN：可持续 (SEEDS) 北方森林燃料中断的社会生态工程和设计

• 批准号: 2332346
• 负责人: Jill Johnstone
• 金额: $ 19.99万
• 依托单位: University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-11-01 至 2025-10-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2332346&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Planning; FIRE; PLAN; Social; Ecological

Wildfire is part of northern forest ecosystems, but fire activity is increasing as the summer climate gets hotter and drier. Communities in the boreal forests of the Arctic are under pressure to adapt to increasing risk from wildfires, and many are creating fuel breaks to stop fires from burning from forest lands into communities. Fuel breaks use forest harvest or thinning of trees and branches to reduce the amount of fuel in a treated area. After cutting, forests will naturally regrow fuels and repeated thinning is needed to maintain the fuel break. As an alternative, planting treatments or other management of vegetation could convert forest stands to plant communities that reduce wildfire risk over the long term. Careful planning and investment in revegetation could also create plant types that support other benefits. To identify solutions that reduce fire risk, sharing knowledge and identifying local needs and opportunities are needed. This project will use scientific and Indigenous and local knowledge to map new local solutions to reduce fire risk that also meet other community needs. Management scenarios and analysis of costs and benefits will assist communities and managers in developing customized local solutions. The project will support new innovations and planning to develop proactive and adaptive wildfire solutions for the North.The planning project will connect scientists, managers, and local people to create a network for sharing knowledge on fuel break management in northern boreal forests. Because boreal forests in the North have had little commercial forestry or agriculture, there are few resources to support local vegetation management. Efforts to manage revegetation with native plants are hindered by practical challenges related to a) local availability of native seeds for revegetation, b) identification of desired outcomes and appropriate strategies to achieve them, and c) local capacity for plant propagation. A series of network meetings will gather participants to share experiences and perspectives for fuel management, revegetation, and reduction of wildfire risk around northern communities across Alaska and Canada. The network will incorporate perspectives from science, Indigenous knowledge, and applied management to identify and communicate visions, needs, and barriers related to alternative fuel break management in the North. Core network members will summarize the shared knowledge into a public report and website that identifies common needs, resources, and benefits that can used by northern communities to meet objectives for fire risk reduction while providing other benefits.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

野火是北方森林生态系统的一部分，但随着夏季气候变得更加炎热和干燥，火灾活动正在增加。北极北部森林的社区面临着适应越来越大的野火风险的压力，许多社区正在创造燃料休息时间，以阻止大火从林地燃烧到社区。燃料间歇期利用森林采伐或疏伐树木和树枝来减少受处理地区的燃料量。砍伐后，森林会自然地再生燃料，需要反复砍伐才能保持燃料休息。作为另一种选择，种植处理或其他植被管理可以将林地转变为植物群落，从长远来看，降低野火风险。仔细的规划和对植被重建的投资也可以创造出支持其他好处的植物类型。为了确定降低火灾风险的解决方案，需要共享知识并确定当地的需求和机会。该项目将利用科学、土著和当地知识绘制新的当地解决方案，以减少火灾风险，同时满足其他社区的需求。管理方案和成本效益分析将协助社区和管理人员制定定制的本地解决方案。该项目将支持新的创新，并计划为北方开发主动和适应性的野火解决方案。规划项目将把科学家、管理人员和当地人民联系起来，创建一个分享北方北方森林燃料间歇管理知识的网络。由于北方的北方森林几乎没有商业林业或农业，因此几乎没有资源来支持当地的植被管理。与以下方面有关的实际挑战阻碍了利用本土植物管理植被恢复的努力：a)当地是否有本土种子可用于重建植被；b)确定预期的结果和实现这些结果的适当战略；以及c)当地的植物繁殖能力。一系列网络会议将聚集与会者，分享阿拉斯加和加拿大北部社区周围燃料管理、植被重建和降低野火风险的经验和观点。该网络将纳入科学、土著知识和应用管理的观点，以确定和交流与北方替代燃料中断管理有关的愿景、需求和障碍。核心网络成员将把共享的知识汇总到公共报告和网站中，以确定北方社区可以在提供其他好处的同时实现降低火灾风险的目标的共同需求、资源和利益。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。