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Maintain and promote riparian processes and functions.

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Approach

Maintain and promote riparian processes and functions.

Tactics

  • Manage upland vegetation that influences riparian function and process (e.g., with thinning and prescribed fire).
  • Restore “true” riparian obligate species.

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.

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Climate Change Effect

Resource Area

Relevant Region

Caribbean
Northern Plains
Northwest
Southeast
Southern Plains
Southwest