This report, and the associated decision support system, are part of the Regional Wildfire Mitigation Program’s Landscape Domain. The Landscape Domain’s goal is to protect and expand vegetated “greenbelts” that provide wildfire protection and ecosystem conservation co-benefits in the Santa Barbara County, CA region. Program outcomes are designed to also provide numerous co-benefits that support watershed and coastal ecological functions.
For this phase of the program, we focus on 6 types of proposed nature-based interventions (i.e. “treatments”):
- Shaded Oak Fuel Breaks
- Riparian Fuel Breaks
- Prescribed Herbivory
- Avocado Orchards
- Citrus Orchards
- Low-water Plantations (e.g. Agave)
This report summarizes and links to an Environmental Evaluation Modeling System (EEMS) designed to support these treatments. The EEMS presents pertinent spatial information and data in a logically structured and transparent format to guide landscape-scale planning and decision making. In this case, it maps the relative suitability of each reporting unit, a 196 ft X 196 ft (60 m X 60 m) square area, for implementing each treatment, irrespective of fire hazard or asset vulnerability. These suitability maps can be used as stand-alone decision support, and are to be combined with hazard and asset maps in a later part of the program’s analytic workflow.
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