Wildfire Threat to Key Resources on the Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest
Following a severe bark beetle outbreak, the TEAMS Enterprise unit conducted a “Rapid Assessment of Management Opportunities” for the Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest (BDNF). As part of that assessment, TEAMS partnered with Pyrologix to conduct a multi-resource wildfire risk assessment. For this project, we adapted a quantitative risk assessment approach developed for national application to meet the needs of the BDNF. The objective of this assessment was to identify potential vegetation management opportunities to meet forest plan objectives (protect and enhance key resources). This was accomplished by quantifying threat and benefit in the analysis area and summarizing those results to the BDNF planning units. View the PDF here.
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