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Increase soil resistance and resilience to climate change

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Approach

Increase soil resistance and resilience to climate change.

Tactics

  • Maintain and increase soil cover within potential to mitigate heating of the soil to reduce carbon loss
  • evaporation
  • and runoff
  • Categorize soils for their resilience to climate change through completion of soil climate vulnerability mapping at various scales.
  • Utilize grazing management systems that can respond quickly to short term periods of drought and temperature increases.
  • Promote native plant species and plant diversity that is adapted to the projected soil properties.
  • Focus restoration efforts on areas that can support management objectives.

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.