Approach
Promote ponderosa pine resilience
Tactics
- Reduce competition from Douglas-fir and grand fir (thin, burn) in current mature ponderosa pine stands.
- Increase understory burning.
- Retain current mature and older ponderosa pine stands.
- Plant ponderosa pine where it has been lost.
Sensitivity
Strategy
Halofsky, J.E.; Peterson, D.L.; Dante-Wood, S.K.; Hoang, L.; Ho, J.J.; Joyce, L.A., eds. (2018). Climate change vulnerability and adaptation in the Northern Rocky Mountains. Gen. Tech. Rep. RMRS-GTR-374. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station., Halofsky, J.E.; Peterson, D.L., eds. (2017). Climate change and Rocky Mountain ecosystems. Advances in Global Change Research, Volume 63. Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing.