WWETAC Projects
Project Title: Evaluating forest and rangeland development in the Western United States
Status: Ongoing
Principal Investigator: Jeffrey D. Kline, USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, Corvallis, OR
Collaborators: Becky Kerns, USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, Corvallis, OR; Roger B. Hammer, Department of Sociology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
E-mail Contact: Jeff Kline, jkline[at]fs.fed.us
Summary: Forest and rangeland development will
continue to be a major factor influencing forest and rangeland
ecosystems in the foreseeable future, both as a process of forest
and rangeland loss and fragmentation, and as a factor influencing
wildfire and invasive species threats. Assessing existing land
use and population change data and methods, and how they might
contribute to ecological assessments contributes directly to
the Center’s principal mission of generating and integrating knowledge
and information to assess environmental threats in the Western
United States. The proposed project will review concepts, data,
and methods
for describing and modeling forest and rangeland development
in the Western United States, and demonstrate modeling and projection
methods
for one or more select regions. The project will address the
likely
feasibilities and obstacles involved in cross-disciplinary integration
of forest and rangeland development information and projections
with ecological, fire, and other models used to evaluate wildland
threats.
Project ID: FY07BK6
