Approach
EASTERN: On top of protecting and maintaining climate refugia and reserves to maintain ecosystem diversity and legacy, expanding existing reserve boundaries may buffer and replicate the diversity within the core of the reserve, but more importantly, may also increase the overall species diversity within the expanded reserve. This approach may be more effective over the long term if focused on reserves that also encompass climate refugia.
WESTERN: On top of protecting and maintaining climate refugia and reserves to maintain ecosystem diversity and legacy, expanding existing reserve boundaries may buffer and replicate the diversity within the core of the reserve, but more importantly, may also increase the overall species diversity within the expanded reserve. This approach may be more effective over the long term if focused on reserves that also encompass climate refugia.
Tactics
- Restoring or conserving land directly adjacent to established reserves.
- Developing a network of reserves across adjacent management units or with adjacent landowners with shared or complementary management or conservation goals.
- Designating buffer zones of low-intensity management around core reserve areas and between different land uses.
Strategy
Strategy Text
Some losses are inevitable, whether due to catastrophic events or unforeseen interactions of management, climate change, and forest response. Increasing ecosystem redundancy attempts to lower the overall risk of losing a species or community by increasing the extent, number of occurrences across the landscape, and diversity of regeneration stages. This strategy may benefit greatly from developing partnerships with other land management organizations and coordinating landscape-scale conservation practices.
1. Swanston, C.W.; Janowiak, M.K.; Brandt, L.A.; Butler, P.R.; Handler, S.D.; Shannon, P.D.; Derby Lewis, A.; Hall, K.; Fahey, R.T.; Scott, L.; Kerber, A.; Miesbauer, J.W.; Darling, L.; 2016. Forest Adaptation Resources: climate change tools and approaches for land managers, 2nd ed. US Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research Station. 161 p. http://dx.doi.org/10.2737/NRS-GTR-87-2