Southwestern Crown of the Continent Prioritization Framework
Dates
Metadata Creation Date
2019-02-06
acquisition
2012-01-01
Citation
Jonathan Haufler(Contributor), Carolyn Mehl(Contributor), Anne Carlson(Principal Investigator), Great Northern Landscape Conservation Cooperative(administrator), LCC Network Data Steward(administrator), 2018-09-04(creation), 2019-01-29(lastUpdate), 2012(Acquisition), Southwestern Crown of the Continent Prioritization Framework
Summary
The Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program (CFLRP) is designed to provide up to 10 years of funding to selected initiatives that will implement a landscape strategy to address the risk of uncharacteristic wildfire, restore ecosystems to pre-fire suppression conditions, improve fish and wildlife habitat, improve watersheds, and reduce invasive species. As such, it provides a tremendous opportunity to look collaboratively at a landscape and ask what can be accomplished relative to the CFLRP objectives over a 10 year timeframe. While actual project selection and decisions are the responsibility of the U.S. Forest Service, building a collaborative vision of what can be accomplished and where it might occur provides an understanding [...]
Summary
The Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program (CFLRP) is designed to provide up to 10 years of funding to selected initiatives that will implement a landscape strategy to address the risk of uncharacteristic wildfire, restore ecosystems to pre-fire suppression conditions, improve fish and wildlife habitat, improve watersheds, and reduce invasive species. As such, it provides a tremendous opportunity to look collaboratively at a landscape and ask what can be accomplished relative to the CFLRP objectives over a 10 year timeframe. While actual project selection and decisions are the responsibility of the U.S. Forest Service, building a collaborative vision of what can be accomplished and where it might occur provides an understanding and shared direction for stakeholders and participants in the collaborative. To assist in developing such a vision, the Ecosystem Management Research Institute (EMRI) conducted a landscape assessment for the Southwest Crown of the Continent (SW Crown) project, a selected CFLRP landscape, and then used this assessment as a basis for making recommendations on where various objectives of CFLRP might be met within the overall project area. Specifically, this work produced the following: • A landscape assessment based on information and analysis developed from available data to assess the current condition of the landscape compared to historical reference conditions. • A prioritization framework that uses available information and data to help direct actions and available resources to best meet CFLRP objectives.
