Approach
Maintain, sustain, retain, and encourage recruitment to overstory
Tactics
- Remove conifers with prescribed fire and logging.
- Protect and encourage regeneration using fencing and ungulate management by reducing numbers and change the season of use to graze early
- Conduct public outreach to help manage for aspen snags; restrict firewood cutting; target ranchette owners with information; include aspen in public education; use “this is a wildlife home” signs and similar.
Sensitivity
Citation
Halofsky, J.E.; Peterson, D.L.; Ho, J.J.; Little, N.J.; Joyce, L.A., eds. (2018). Climate change vulnerability and adaptation in the Intermountain Region. Gen. Tech. Rep. RMRS-GTR-375. 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.