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Increase resilience of late-successional habitat and surrounding habitat

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Approach

Increase resilience of late-successional habitat and surrounding habitat

Tactics

  • Increase landscape biodiversity and heterogeneity by modifying species composition
  • Increase diversity of age classes and restore patch mosaic
  • Accelerate development of additional late-successional habitat in matrix
  • Increase protection of critical habitat structure (e.g.
  • snags and nest trees)
  • Consider policy changes to allow more management and adaptive management in late-successional reserves
  • Consider more use of prescribed fire
  • Increase monitoring of insects to anticipate and prevent outbreaks
  • Allow shifts in native species ranges
  • Collaborate with neighbors about priority areas for treatments
  • and increase extent of protected areas

Citation

Raymond, C.L.; Peterson, D.L.; Rochefort, R.M., eds. (2014). Climate change vulnerability and adaptation in the North Cascades region. Gen. Tech. Rep. PNW-GTR-892. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station., Raymond, C.L.; Peterson, D.L.; Rochefort, R.M. (2013). The North Cascadia Adaptation Partnership: a science-management collaboration for responding to climate change. Sustainability. 5: 136–159., Halofsky, J.E.; Peterson, D.L.; O’Halloran, K.A.; Hawkins Hoffman, C., eds. (2011). Adapting to climate change at Olympic National Forest and Olympic National Park. Gen. Tech. Rep. PNW-GTR-844. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station.