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Maintain current habitat, restore historical structure, and increase mosaic structure (including snags).

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Approach

Maintain current habitat, restore historical structure, and increase mosaic structure (including snags).

Tactics

  • Conduct thinning and prescribed fire treatments; use thinning from below; maintain natural structure with diversity, density; control ladder fuels.
  • Manage grazing to discourage overgrazing of native plants and to maintain fine fuels to carry fire.
  • Plant adapted ponderosa pine.

Sensitivity

Strategy

RELATED TO THIS APPROACH:

Climate Change Effect

Resource Area

Relevant Region

Northern Plains
Northwest
Southwest