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Promote resiliency in communities with vulnerable species and increase resistance to mountain pine beetle

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Approach

Promote resiliency in communities with vulnerable species and increase resistance to mountain pine beetle

Tactics

  • Strategically use anti-aggregation pheromones to reduce mountain pine beetle damage on susceptible tree species
  • Continue to establish permanent monitoring plots and share data
  • Coordinate Forest Service and National Park Service efforts to collect cones and produce seedlings of species susceptible to mountain pine beetle
  • Identify sites that are less likely to be affected by climate change (refugia)
  • and focus on those sites for restoration

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., Halofsky, J.E.; Peterson, D.L.; Dante-Wood, S.K.; Hoang, L.; Ho, J.J.; Joyce, L.A., eds. (2018). Climate change vulnerability and adaptation in the Northern Rocky Mountains. Gen. Tech. Rep. RMRS-GTR-374. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station., Halofsky, J.E.; Peterson, D.L., eds. (2017). Climate change and Rocky Mountain ecosystems. Advances in Global Change Research, Volume 63. Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing.,