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* Metric Name: Cost of Potential Treatments *  

* Tier: 2  

* Data Vintage: 2023  

* Unit Of Measure: Continuous, dollars per acre  

* Represent element and pillar: Yes  

* Type and distribution of data: Right-skewed distribution on continuous values. Raw values range from 3 to 13.  

* Translation: Where is cost of potential treatments the lowest?  

* Translation method and outcome: Raw data values translated to range from +1 to -1 representing more favorable to less favorable conditions, respectively. **** The proposition of more favorable is based on the objective of identifying lower biomass removal costs. More favorable (translated to +1) set at $3/ac, the least cost observed (negative linear slope), and less favorable (translated to -1) set at $13/ac, the maximum cost observed. Alternative approaches could evaluate costs using a positive linear slope, such that management would be directed toward areas with -1 values (low cost) and away from areas with +1 values (high cost). 

Figure . Histogram and scoring criterion of current condition scores for
mobilization costs to saw facilities across the Southern California

Figure 58. Histogram of translated current condition scores for mobilization
costs to saw facilities across the Southern California

Figure 59. Maps displaying raw metric and translated metric of current
condition scores for mobilization costs to saw facilities across the Southern
California

  

* Metric Definition and Relevance: The principle method for maintaining or restoring resilience to the southern California landscape involves vegetation treatments. There are many variations on treatments involving different kinds of equipment and different activities of managing vegetation. The metric has gathered available information on the costs of the major treatment methods and incorporated this information into a geospatial database. 

There are no treatments of vegetation in southern California that generate
revenue. All treatments included here are represented simply as costs per
acre.

  

* Credits: CALFIRE, USDA Forest Service