Stanislaus National Forest
Sonora, CA – This project has been decades in the making. Its findings have now been released. The Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS), for the Social and Ecological Residibility Across the Landscape project on Stanislaus National Forest, is intended to restore forest resilience as well as reduce landscape vulnerability to natural disturbances. Katie Wilkinson, Stanislaus National Forest Environment Coordinator and SERAL team leader, explains.
While the types of actions we are proposing are the same as the management actions of the past few decades there are many unique and existing new aspects of the SERAL project which make it unique and exciting, The collaborative effort to develop the project with YSS, an extensive team of scientists and professionals who supported the effort and developed key modeled metrics to assess both the need for treatment and where treatments were located, the application of ForSys a scenario planning tool which enabled the team to rapidly synthesize information to select treatment areas, and the use of potential wild land fire operational delineations to inform implementation prioritization and strategies.”
To see the results of the project click here Here.