Management of forest lands considering multi-functional approaches is the basis to sustain
or enhance the provision of specific benefits, while minimizing negative impacts to the …

By way of introduction, this chapter provides a general overview of the Ecosystem
Management Decision Support (EMDS) system, including a brief account of its development …

The study explores use of the Ecosystem Management Decision Support (EMDS) System to
standardize the process of allocating Management Areas for Fire Suppression Support …

Land managers in the western US are beginning to understand that early 20th century
forests displayed complex patterns of composition and structure at several different spatial …

Rapid environmental changes challenge the resilience of wildlands. The western portion of
the Lake Tahoe Basin in California is an important ecological and cultural hotspot that is at …

We present a decision support application that evaluates danger of severe wildland fire and
prioritizes subwatersheds for vegetation and fuels treatment. We demonstrate the use of the …

The historical patterns of Inland Northwest United States forests have been dramatically
altered by a little more than two centuries of human settlement and land use. Spatial patterns …

Decision support systems have played a prominent role in the implementation of forest
management since the early 1980s. However, whereas early systems were typically …

This study examines the potential of combining decision support approaches to identify
optimal bundles of ecosystem services in a framework characterized by multiple decision …

We evaluated changes (hereafter, departures) in spatial patterns of various patch types of
forested landscapes in two subwatersheds (“east” and “west”) in eastern Washington, USA …