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Use high-severity wildfires as opportunities to “reset the clock”

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Approach

Use high-severity wildfires as opportunities to “reset the clock”

Tactics

  • Use post-fire timber harvest to prevent uncharacteristic reburns
  • Allow some burned areas to regenerate naturally

Citation

Halofsky, J.E.; Peterson, D.L., eds. (2017). Climate change vulnerability and adaptation in the Blue Mountains. Gen. Tech. Rep. PNW-GTR-939. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station.

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