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Board explores a resilience-constrained alternative to boost forest disturbance resilience
Summary
Staff presented Alternative 1 to manage for historical structure classes and other resilience metrics; board members questioned how metrics would be measured and how resilience objectives would interact with economic and operational constraints.
Staff presented Alternative 1 as a way to accelerate development of disturbance-resilient forest structures across state trust lands by using a set of draft resilience metrics and adding new constraints to the sustainable harvest calculation model.
Susan Beal described proposed draft metrics such as stand density, structure classes, fire susceptibility and insect/disease resistance. The project team noted those metrics are still being defined and that staff will test which metrics can be quantified and represented in the model. "Forest resilience is an adaptive capacity," a staff presenter summarized when explaining the concept of resilience used to compare alternatives.
Board members pressed staff on practical questions: how overlapping metrics will be handled, whether density could serve as a proxy, and how operational realities (mill markets and contractor availability) would affect implementation. Cameron Crump (forest resources division manager) said density is likely the most measurable metric and that economic sensitivity analyses will be run alongside resilience modeling. Staff committed to consulting the technical advisory committee and outside experts and to documenting any data limitations and trade-offs before formalizing this alternative for EIS analysis.
