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Manage recreation sites to mitigate risks to public safety and infrastructure and to continue to provide recreation opportunities

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Approach

Manage recreation sites to mitigate risks to public safety and infrastructure and to continue to provide recreation opportunities

Tactics

  • Determine which recreation sites and infrastructure are at risk from increased flooding and other natural hazards
  • Prioritize post-disturbance treatments
  • including relocation
  • arming
  • and other mitigation measures
  • Invest strategically in developed recreation facilities
  • prioritizing those that will be viable in the future and accommodate changing use patterns

Citation

Halofsky, J.E.; Peterson, D.L.; Dante-Wood, S.K.; Hoang, L.; Ho, J.J.; Joyce, L.A., eds. (2018). Climate change vulnerability and adaptation in the Northern Rocky Mountains. Gen. Tech. Rep. RMRS-GTR-374. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station., Halofsky, J.E.; Warziniack, T.W.; Peterson, D.L.; Ho, J.J. (2017). Understanding and managing the effects of climate change on ecosystem services in the Rocky Mountains. Mountain Research and Development. 37: 340–352. https://doi.org/10.1659/MRD-JOURNAL-D-16-00087.1.,
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