This project has been designed with the most objective goals in mind, with no alterior motive the weighting system. This fact should allow the analysis to be as nonbiased as possible.

The metadata for the data used for this study indicated good quality, however it is difficult to know the true quality of secondary data. Therefore this presents a potential source of area in this project.

Population density has been excluded from this study on the basis that the urban land use factor should more accuratley reflect the urban footprint rather than the population density would.

Slope has been excluded from this study on the basis that is does not appear to have a great enough relief in this area to significantly affect the study. This is taking into condsideration the planting ability of seasoned treeplanters who may be accustomed to steep terrain (for example those from BC). One assumption this study makes is that the treeplanters hired will have the same planting abilities as those used to the rugged terrains that would view this Southern Californian slope as insignificant.

Other factors that may be condidered for future projects of this type may be the potential of an area to burn down again in future wildfires. This could be obtained by using the fire perimeters for past fires and comparing how many times an area has been burnt down compared to it's neighbours.