Approach
Increase resilience of existing vegetation by reducing hazardous fuels and forest density and maintaining low densities.
Tactics
- Thin and burn to reduce hazardous fuels in the wildland-urban interface.
- Increase intentional use of lightning-ignited fires and management of reignition of lightning-ignited fires.
- Consider using more prescribed fire where scientific evidence supports change to more frequent fire regime.
- Use prescribed fire to maintain structure and promote fire-tolerant conifer species.
- Increase interagency coordination and shared risk.
- Conduct thinning treatments (pre-commercial and commercial).
- Use regeneration and planting to influence forest structure.
Sensitivity
Strategy
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