Approach
Increase resilience of late-successional habitat and surrounding habitat.
Tactics
- Increase landscape biodiversity and heterogeneity by modifying species composition.
- Increase diversity of age classes and restore patch mosaic.
- Accelerate development of additional late-successional habitat in matrix.
- Increase protection of critical habitat structure (e.g., snags and nest trees).
- Consider policy changes to allow more management and adaptive management in late-successional reserves.
- Consider more use of prescribed fire.
- Increase monitoring of insects to anticipate and prevent outbreaks.
- Allow shifts in native species ranges.
- Collaborate with neighbors about priority areas for treatments, and increase extent of protected areas.
Sensitivity
Strategy
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