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.