Approach
Increase post-disturbance planning, management, and treatment implementation.
Tactics
- Create a strategy and develop criteria to prioritize areas that are more likely to recover after disturbance (e.g., critical habitats, population served by disturbed habitat).
- Promote climate-adapted species (species resistant and resilient to disturbance) and genotypes.
- Identify sites more susceptible to compounding disturbances (e.g., with dry fuel loads, beetle kills, invasives); monitor disturbance occurrence; prioritize seed sources to preserve some sites; map sites across landscapes.
Sensitivity
Strategy
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