Approach
Reduce sedimentation associated with erosion, fire, and trails
Tactics
- Include climate change projections in identification of potential areas for stream bank and upland erosion
- Inventory disturbed areas for riparian and upland vegetation restoration
- Manage fire and fuels with thinning and prescribed fire to reduce fire severity and extent
- Restore and revegetate burned areas to store sediment and maintain channel geomorphology
- Develop a geospatial layer of debris flow potential for pre-fire planning
Citation
Halofsky, J.E.; Peterson, D.L., eds. (2017). Climate change vulnerability and adaptation in the Blue Mountains. Gen. Tech. Rep. PNW-GTR-939. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest 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., Peterson, D.L.; Halofsky, J.E. (2018). Adapting to the effects of climate change on natural resources in the Blue Mountains, USA. Climate Services. 10: 63–71. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cliser.2017.06.005.