P049: Management Options for Reducing Wildfire Risk and Maximizing Carbon Storage Under Future Climate
Project Number
04.01.01.0047
Action Priority
Conduct Applied Scientific Research
Implementers
Desert Research Institute
Supporting Agencies
Unknown or unspecified
Primary Contact
Alan Heyvaert (alan.heyvaert@dri.edu)
Stage
Completed
Duration
2009 - 2012
Total Project Cost
$258,817
Funding Request
$0
Science Program
Conduct Applied Scientific Research
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.