The People, Places & Treatment Priorities (3P) project was designed to test a flexible, collaborative, transparent and place-based framework to plan mid-scale forest health work before and after wildfire. The project is leveraging existing tools, including ForSys, to explore tradeoffs in forest health priority area delineation and implementation in a collaborative setting in eastern Washington.

The 3P project conducted its pilot collaborative process in the Meadows Community adjacent to the Colville National Forest. In two public meetings, partners from the Washington State Department of Natural Resources, USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service, Stevens County Conservation District and US Forest Service met with community members and local collaboratives to discuss the critical values important in driving forest health and risk reduction treatments in the area. The first meeting gathered important information on how community members prioritized critical values and where special or important places were located. This feedback was fed into ForSys to inform scenarios - differing ways to prioritize the landscape for forest and fuels treatments. The second meeting presented how we leveraged community feedback and how the community could explore outputs to inform collaborative decision making.

ForSys outputs can now be explored by partners in an interactive web application increasing project transparency and quantifying tradeoffs across treatment goals.