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It is generally accepted that fuels treatments are required to reduce the risk of catastrophic fire in dry forest types in the Pacific Northwest that had historical low to mixed-severity fire regimes. Fuels reduction treatments usually include some combination of thinning (removal of trees) and surface fuel treatments, which have potential consequences for environmental values that are not the target of the treatment. There may also be importance placed on reducing the risk of catastrophic wildfire to protect wildlife habitat and old-growth forests. In the planning of fuel treatments it is important to consider the effects on multiple ecological attributes. The spatial distribution of the fuel treatment should consider the |
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A benefit of using Pareto optimality is that multiple solutions can be identified in the space defined by the vector objective function.