P049: Management Options for Reducing Wildfire Risk and Maximizing Carbon Storage Under Future Climate

This project compares and evaluates long-term impacts of fire suppression, prescribed fire, wildfire, and fuel treatments on the long-term potential for Lake Tahoe forests to sequester carbon or otherwise contribute to reducing greenhouse gas emissions in a global change context. The project explicitly assesses the tradeoffs among management for C sequestration, prescribed fires, mechanical fuel treatments, and stochastically recurring large and severe wildland fires as well as demonstrate an operational method for explicit consideration of greenhouse gases in landscape-level forest management.