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炎热干燥，火灾活动也在增加。北极北方森林的社区面临着适应不断增加的野火风险的压力，许多社区正在建立燃料中断点，以阻止火灾从林地蔓延到社区。燃料中断利用森林采伐或稀疏树木和树枝来减少处理区域的燃料量。砍伐后，森林会自然地重新长出燃料，并且需要反复间伐来维持燃料中断。作为替代方案，种植处理或其他植被管理可以将林分转变为植物群落，从而长期减少野火风险。对植被恢复的仔细规划和投资还可以创造支持其他效益的植物类型。为了确定降低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当地知识来制定新的当地解决方案，以减少火灾风险，同时满足其他社区的需求。管理场景以及成本和效益分析将帮助社区和管理者开发定制的本地解决方案。该项目将支持新的创新和规划，为北部地区开发主动和适应性野火解决方案。该规划项目将连接科学家、管理人员和当地人，创建一个网络，分享北部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。管理本土植物重新植被的努力受到以下实际挑战的阻碍：a) 当地能否获得用于重新植被的本土种子；b) 确定所需成果和实现这些成果的适当策略；以及 c) 当地植物繁殖能力。一系列网络会议将聚集参与者，分享阿拉斯加和加拿大北部社区燃料管理、植被恢复和减少野火风险的经验和观点。该网络将结合科学、本土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相关的愿景、需求和障碍。核心网络成员将把共享的知识总结成一份公开报告和网站，确定北方社区可以利用的共同需求、资源和效益，以实现减少火灾风险的目标，同时提供其他效益。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并已被通过使用基金会的智力优点和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，认为值得支持。