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Manage to avoid repeated disturbances that can result in a habitat type/species conversion

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Approach

Manage to avoid repeated disturbances that can result in a habitat type/species conversion

Tactics

  • Protect native bunchgrass and shrub-steppe habitats
  • Break up fuel continuity to reduce likelihood of widespread fire
  • Use methodologies that reduce adverse impact of treatments (e.g.
  • invasion by annual grasses following prescribed fire or wildfire)
  • Control invasive plants
  • Remove invading conifer trees
  • Manage motorized recreation
  • grazing and other anthropogenic stressors
  • Identify the best remaining areas of habitat types; maintain and restore a diversity of types and seral stages across the landscape; monitor ecotones
  • Respond rapidly to invasive species
  • including feral animals

Citation

Halofsky, J.E.; Peterson, D.L.; Ho, J.J. (201X). Climate change vulnerability and adaptation in south central Oregon. Gen. Tech. Rep. PNW-GTR-xxx. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station. In press.