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.