Increase and retain ground cover to prevent to soil loss

Tactics

Ensure sufficient residual vegetation or micro-biotic soil crusts to resist wind and water erosion.
Minimize the risk of catastrophic fire by managing for a mosaic of smaller
more frequent fires and conducting fuel reduction treatments to mimic historical fire disturbance regimes (e.g. prescribed fire
wildland fire use
and mechanical fuel treatments
Manage to maintain or restore micro-biotic soil crusts where they are ecologically appropriate
recognizing soil crusts are an important soil cover.