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Increase and maintain moderate fire danger conditions on the landscape

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Approach

Increase and maintain moderate fire danger conditions on the landscape.

Tactics

  • Increase education to public on the role of fire on the landscape (fire today could save your home tomorrow).
  • Incorporate managed fire for resource objectives in forest plan revisions.
  • Limit potential for invasive establishment that may increase with increased fire; use pre- and post-fire treatments, weed control, and monitoring.

Sensitivity

Strategy

Halofsky, J.E.; Peterson, D.L.; Ho, J.J.; Little, N.J.; Joyce, L.A., eds. (2018). Climate change vulnerability and adaptation in the Intermountain Region. Gen. Tech. Rep. RMRS-GTR-375. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station., Peterson, D.L.; Halofsky, J.E.; Johnson, M.C. (2011). Managing and adapting to changing fire regimes in a warmer climate. In: McKenzie, D.; Miller, C.; Falk, D., eds. The landscape ecology of fire. New York: Springer: 249–267.

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Climate Change Effect

Resource Area

Relevant Region

Northern Plains
Northwest