Now that’s an attitude I rarely see! Cool!
Now, as discussed here, if your goal was to simply understand what predicts canopy loss, a simpler model would be fine. Since you want actual predictions, you might have to go into dangerous of zero-one-inflated beta regression models.
See this and this discussions here on the forum and try to work out how to incorporate these things into your current model.
One thing I’d try first is @bgoodri’s “hack”:
Maybe also @saudiwin can share some insight into some of the stuff he’s done, but that’d entail discretising your response variable.