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

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热更干燥，火灾活动正在增加。北极北部森林的社区面临着适应野火日益增加的风险的压力，许多人正在创造燃料中断，以阻止森林土地燃烧到社区。燃料中断利用森林采伐或疏伐树木和树枝来减少处理区的燃料量。砍伐后，森林会自然再生燃料，需要反复间伐以保持燃料中断。作为替代方案，种植处理或其他植被管理可以将森林转化为植物群落，长期减少野火风险。在重新植被方面进行认真的规划和投资，也可以创造出支持其他效益的植物类型。为了确定减少火灾风险的解决方案，需要分享知识并确定当地的需求和机会。该项目将利用科学和土著和地方知识，绘制新的地方解决方案，以减少火灾风险，同时满足其他社区需求。管理设想和成本效益分析将有助于社区和管理人员制定定制的地方解决方案。该项目将支持新的创新和规划，为北方开发积极和适应性的野火解决方案。该规划项目将连接科学家，管理人员和当地人民，以创建一个网络，分享北方北方森林燃料中断管理的知识。由于北方的北方森林几乎没有商业林业或农业，因此支持当地植被管理的资源很少。利用本地植物管理植被的努力受到以下方面的实际挑战的阻碍：（a）当地可获得用于植被重建的本地种子;（B）确定期望的成果和实现这些成果的适当战略;（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方社区燃料管理、植被重建和减少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，以确定和传达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总结成一份公共报告和网站，确定北方社区可以使用的共同需求、资源和利益，以实现减少火灾风险的目标，同时提供其他好处。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

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.