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Determine most appropriate management strategies to reduce conifer encroachment in mid- and late-successional sagebrush

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Approach

Determine most appropriate management strategies to reduce conifer encroachment in mid- and late-successional sagebrush

Tactics

  • Determine whether future fire is moving towards or away from historical regimes
  • and allow wildfires to burn for resource benefit where we suspect fire regimes are departed from historical.
  • Use mechanical means to reduce pinyon-juniper
  • and use fire to improve habitat for fire positive species
  • Consider future climate envelopes of sagebrush when determining action (prevent investment in managing for sagebrush where it is unlikely to persist)

Citation

Halofsky, J.E.; Peterson, D.L.; Ho, J.J.; Little, N.J.; Joyce, L.A., eds. (2018). Climate change vulnerability and adaptation in the Intermountain Region. Gen. Tech. Rep. RMRS-GTR-375. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station.