Conservation Biology Institute Inc

THREE CHALLENGES HINDER WILDFIRE MANAGEMENT: A LEGACY OF FOREST FUEL ACCUMULATION, EXPANSION OF THE WILDLAND URBAN INTERFACE (WUI), AND A CHANGING CLIMATE (SCHOENNAGEL ET AL. 2017). AMONG THESE CHALLENGES, FUEL ACCUMULATION WOULD SEEM TO LEND ITSELF MOST READILY TO ACTION. FUEL TREATMENTS HAVE BEEN SHOWN TO EFFECTIVELY CHANGE FIRE BEHAVIOR IN EMPIRICAL STUDIES (TUBBESING ET AL. 2019, WIMBERLY ET AL. 2019) AND SIMULATION MODELS (MCCAULEY ET AL. 2019, LOEHMAN ET AL. 2018), WHERE SIMULATION MODELS SUGGEST THAT AS LITTLE AS 1-2 OF LAND TREATED PER YEAR COULD REDUCE HIGH-SEVERITY FIRE (FINNEY ET AL. 2007). HOWEVER, STUDIES ON OPTIMAL TREATMENT PLACEMENT AND TIMING ARE CRITICALLY NEEDED. IN PARTICULAR, A SYNTHESIS ON THE STATE OF THE FUEL TREATMENT LITERATURE (JAIN ET AL. 2019) STATES RESEARCH IS NEEDED IN UNDERREPRESENTED ECOSYSTEMS AND UNDERDEVELOPED TOPICS INCLUDING... SIMULATION STUDIES THAT EXAMINE CONDITIONS EXPECTED UNDER FUTURE CLIMATE SCENARIOS (JAIN ET AL. 2019). WE PROPOSE TO ADDRESS THE ABOVE CHALLENGES THROUGH AN ASSESSMENT OF SIMULATED FUEL TREATMENT EFFECTIVENESS COMBINED WITH THE EFFECTS OF CLIMATE AND LAND USE CHANGE ON WILDFIRE REGIME CHANGE, PROPERTY RISK, BIODIVERSITY, AND CARBON STORAGE. IN JAIN ET AL. (2019) S REVIEW OF THERE WERE NO SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA STUDIES OF FUEL EFFECTIVENESS IN MONTANE FORESTS, DESPITE THE FACT THAT OVER A THIRD (24) OF THE 65 HIGH RISK FIRESHEDS IN CALIFORNIA ARE IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA S FORESTS AND SHRUBLANDS (USFS WILDFIRE CRISIS IMPLEMENTATION PLAN).

COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT WITH CBI

EVALUATING CARBON POOLS AND FLUXES USING A DGVM WITH PRESCRIBED LANDUSE: MCI CONTRIBUTION TO THE LAND CARBON PROJECT

FUNDING FOR $16,000.00 TO CREATE A SHARED BLUEPRINT FOR LANDSCAPE CONSERVATION ACTIONS THAT SUSTAIN NATURAL AND CULTURAL RESOURCES.

DEVELOPMENT OF MODELING TOOLS FOR FUTURE USGS BIOLOGIC CARBON SEQUESTRATION ASSESSMENT ??? A

URBAN GROWTH FIRE RISK MODELING

MANAGING REMOTE MARINE PROTECTED AREAS - THE PACIFIC REMOTE ISLANDS MARINE NATIONAL MONUMENT

BALANCING FIRE RISK WITH RESOURCE PROTECTION UNDER GLOBAL CHANGE

QCB AUGMENTATION PROJECT

ARRA-PRIORITIZE FUEL TREATMENTS BY ESTIMATING RESTORATION POTENTIAL AND UNDERSTANDING THEIR EFFECTS

NPLCC GATEWAY

CBI-PAD

QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENT OF THE EFFECT OF FUEL MANIPULATION PROJECTS ON FIRE BEHAVIOR AND URBAN LOSS

CONTINUE TO IMPLEMENT AN ONGOING QUINO AUGMENTATION PROGRAM IN AND AROUND THE SAN DIEGO NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE.

KLAMATH BASIN ECOLOGICAL CONNECTIVITY PROJECT

LANDSCAPE CONSERVATION COOPERATIVE INTEGRATED DATA MANAGEMENT NETWORK CORE SYSTEMS, VISULIZATION, AND ANALYTIC AND SPATIAL TOOLS DEVELOPMENT

SIMULATING VEGETATION DYNAMICS ON LOCAL AND GLOBAL SCALES: THE MCI DYNAMIC VEGETATION MODEL

COOPERATIVE LANDSCAPE CONSERVATION

DLCC & GPCLL CONSERVATION PLANNING ATLAS

THIS PROJECT WILL ENHANCE THE CONSERVED OPEN SPACE HABITAT WITHIN THE CHEYENNE PRESERVE COMPLEX LOCATED IN THE CITY OF SANTEE, SAN DIEGO COUNTY VIA INVASIVES WEED CONTROL AND TARGETED HABITAT ENHANCEMENT EFFORTS DURING THE SAME PROJECT TIME PERIOD, THE PROJECT WILL ALSO MONITOR FOR THE PRESENCE OF THE FEDERALLY THREATENED COASTAL CALIFORNIA GNATCATCHER POLIOPTILA CALIFORNICA CALIFORNICA

CHEYENNE PRESERVE - SECURITY/FENCING AND WEED ABATEMENT

DLCC CONSERVATION PLANNING ATLAS START-UP

SAN DIEGO BAY NONNATIVE SEA LAVENDER MAPPING AND CONTROL

REARING LAGUNA MOUNTAINS SKIPPER BUTTERFLY FOR REINTRODUCTION

CREATE A FIRE RISK ASSESSMENT/MODEL FOR THE KLAMATH BASIN PROJECT AREA. THIS MODEL WILL SHOW AREAS OF DIFFERING LEVELS OF FIRE RISK AND CAN BE USED INDEPENDENTLY OR OVERLAID ON THE CBI CONNECTIVITY MAP FOR FISHER AND MARTEN TO SHOW AREAS IMPORTANT TO CONNECTIVITY THAT MAY ALSO BE OF RISK OF HIGH SEVERITY FIRES.

INTERACTIONS AMONG GYPSY MOTH, WILDFIRE, FOREST HEALTH MANAGEMENT, AND CLIMATE CHANGE

AUGMENT A SERIES OF OCCUPIED HABITAT PATCHES OR 'SUBPOPULATIONS' ON SAN DIEGO NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE TO CREATE OR REESTABLISH A METAPOPULATION OF QUINO CHECKERSPOT BUTTERFLIES.

CONSERVATION PLANNING ATLAS FOR ALASKA

REAL-TIME FISHERIES MANAGEMENT FOR ECOLOGICAL AND ECONOMIC SUSTAINABILITY

HABITAT PRIORITIZATION, CONNECTIVITY, AND FIRE RISK ANALYSIS TOOLS

PACIFIC ISLANDS CLIMATE CHANGE COOPERATIVE CONSERVATION PLANNING ATLAS,

HSDR PROJ SA 24, 63, AND 67: DATA INTEGRATION OF HSDR PROJECTS

THE COOPERATOR SHALL CONDUCT A REVIEW AND QUALITY ASSURANCE AND CONTROL OF DATA COLLECTED FOR RARE PLANT OCCURRENCES AT NAVAL BASE POINT LOMA AND NAV

MOD 2 DECISION-SUPPORT MAPS AND MODELS FOR THE WEST COAST DISTINCT POPULATION SEGMENT OF THE FISHER