Regional Resource Kits

The Regional Resource Kits project, supported by CWI, connects essential data to boots-on-the-ground – utilizing and integrating existing science to inform resilience metrics and relaying these metrics to land managers. Evaluating and developing these metrics was a collaborative effort on the part of academic institutions and state and federal land agencies. Researchers considered a variety of existing metrics for forest resilience and wildfire reduction and distilled them down to those most relevant and valuable at the community level.

Team leads worked closely with regional partners to understand what data, information, analysis tools, and models already exist, with the ultimate goal of integrating local and regional knowledge and avoiding duplication. The kits themselves serve as a conduit to communities that are most at risk of wildfire impacts and aid land managers in continuing to plan and prioritize treatment projects that will have the most significant impact on community resilience.

The Regional Resource Kits are currently housed with the-California Wildfire and Forest Resilience Task Force. Click here to access the kits.

Project Lead: John Battles, Professor of Forest Ecology, Department of Environmental Science, Policy & Management at UC Berkeley