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Maintain current habitat, restore historical habitat, and promote potential future habitat

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Approach

Maintain current habitat, restore historical habitat, and promote potential future habitat.

Tactics

  • Conserve current old-growth habitat.
  • Restore understory to create future habitat.
  • Maintain or create necessary structure for species that rely on late-successional habitat.

Sensitivity

Strategy

Halofsky, J.E.; Peterson, D.L.; O’Halloran, K.A.; Hawkins Hoffman, C., eds. (2011). Adapting to climate change at Olympic National Forest and Olympic National Park. Gen. Tech. Rep. PNW-GTR-844. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station., Peterson, D.L.; Millar, C.I.; Joyce, L.A.; Furniss, M.J.; Halofsky, J.E.; Neilson, R.P.; Morelli, T.L. (2011). Responding to climate change in national forests: a guidebook for developing adaptation options. Gen. Tech. Rep. PNW-GTR-855. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station., ,

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Climate Change Effect

Resource Area

Relevant Region

Northern Plains
Northwest
Southwest