Approach
Decrease density within stands, and increase structural diversity across the landscape.
Tactics
- Reduce density by thinning, prescribed fire, and wildfire use, with density and structural goals based on past and predicted future conditions.
- Promote age class and structural diversity across the landscape, through regeneration harvest, thinning, prescribed fire and wildfire use.
- Monitor establishment, survival, and development of ponderosa pine by age class and in different topoedaphic conditions using Forest Inventory and Analysis data and project-level stocking exams.
Sensitivity
Strategy
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