Approach
Maintain and protect summer alpine habitat for pika and marmot
Tactics
- Monitor tree establishment in meadows
- Remove trees from meadows using fire and mechanical treatments
- Monitor soil development
- cryptobiotic crust
- and herbaceous plant establishment in previously snow-covered and glaciated areas
- Decrease visitor use in alpine and subalpine habitats
Sensitivity
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., Raymond, C.L.; Peterson, D.L.; Rochefort, R.M. (2013). The North Cascadia Adaptation Partnership: a science-management collaboration for responding to climate change. Sustainability. 5: 136–159.,
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