P083: Incorporating Project-Level Analysis and Enhanced Decision Support into the OptFuels Fuel Treatment Planning System for the LTB

A geographic information system-based decision support system, called OptFuels, was developed as part of a SNPLMA-funded project for spatially scheduling forest fuel treatments over multiple planning periods in the Lake Tahoe Basin. OptFuels combines the vegetation simulation capabilities of the Forest Vegetation Simulator (FVS), the landscape fire behavior modeling functionality of the Minimum Travel Time algorithm in FlamMap (FlamMap-MTT), and a heuristic algorithm for scheduling fuel treatments. This integrated system provides land managers with a streamlined ability to develop spatiotemporal fuel treatment alternatives and assess trade-offs among various alternatives and no action.