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Introduction

ForestERA was first applied to a two-million acre study area in northern Arizona in a project known as WMPALA — Western Mogollon Plateau Adaptive Landscape Assessment. Two WMPALA workshops were held as well as a special technology transfer and training workshop focusing on the Coconino National Forest Mogollon Rim District subregion (see below).

Please note that ForestERA processes and products are not plans in and of themselves. They are collaboratively developed recommendations and assessments that can be used by any and all stakeholders in the region (e.g., agencies, non-profits, and tribes) to develop plans. For example, products from the February 2004 WMPALA workshop are referenced in the Greater Flagstaff Community Wildfire Protection Plan approved in December of 2004 and available from the Great Flagstaff Forests Partnership Web site.

Coconino National Forest Landscape Analysis Workshops

The Mogollon Rim District of the Coconino National Forest (in green on map to right) was the focus of four one-day technology transfer and training workshops for the Forest Service and its agency partners. The workshops were held on December 2nd and 9th, 2004, and April 12th and May 13th, 2005, in Flagstaff, Arizona.

The products developed in this workshop are not plans, but alternative prioritization and forest management scenarios developed by small break-out groups for the purpose of training in the use of landscape ecological tools and gaining insight on landscape-scale patterns and processes in the Mogollon Rim District.

On the first day of the workshop, four break-out groups prioritized areas in need of management attention for fire protection. ForestERA staff reviewed and compared the four scenarios and, working with a fifth break-out group later in the week, developed a forest management action scenario.

A Powerpoint^® presentation at the December 9th session summarized ForestERA's spatial decision support system and the products developed by workshop participants. This presentation is available on this Web site. Use Microsoft Internet Explorer^® only to view; for high resolution graphics click here; slower connections click here.

Coconino NF and ForestERA staff are developing a report describing the workshop's process and products. A draft of the report is available for download (92 KB PDF file). A summary of the May 13th Mogollon Rim Ranger District Five-Year Fuel Plan workshop, supported by ForestERA tools, will be added to the report this summer (2005).

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May '04 WMPALA Workshop