Integrating Social, Economic, and Ecological Values Across Large Landscapes

The Integrated Landscape Assessment Project (ILAP) was a multiyear effort toproduce information, maps, and models to help land managers, policymakers, andothers conduct mid- to broad-scale (e.g., watersheds to states and larger areas)prioritization of land management actions, perform landscape assessments, andestimate cumulative effects of management actions for planning and other purposes.The ILAP provided complete cross-ownership geospatial data and maps oncurrent vegetation, potential vegetation, land ownership and management allocationclasses, and other landscape attributes across Arizona, New Mexico, Oregon,and Washington. State-and-transition models, developed to cover all major uplandvegetation types in the four states, integrated vegetation development, managementactions, and natural disturbances to allow users to examine the mid- and long-termeffects of alternative management and disturbance scenarios. New model linkagesto wildlife habitat, economics, aboveground carbon pools, biomass, and wildfirehazard were developed and integrated through decision-support systems. Modelsincorporating potential effects of climate change were also developed for focusareas in Oregon and Arizona. This report includes an overview of the structure andcomponents of ILAP along with descriptions of methods and example results forstate-and-transition modeling, fuel characterization, treatment economics, wildlifehabitat, community economics, and climate change. This report serves as a guideto ILAP. Complete collections of the project’s models, maps, data, and tools willbe archived and available online through the Western Landscapes Explorer portal(www.westernlandscapesexplorer.info) so that scientists and managers will be ableto use and build upon ILAP’s products.