Maintain current habitat, restore historical structure, and increase mosaic structure (including snags).

Approach

Tactics

Conduct thinning and prescribed fire treatments; use thinning from below; maintain natural structure with diversity, density; control ladder fuels.
Manage grazing to discourage overgrazing of native plants and to maintain fine fuels to carry fire.
Plant adapted ponderosa pine.

Sensitivity

• Increased duration and periodicity of drought and reduced soil moisture will stress vegetation and aquatic wildlife species.

Strategy

Maintain and enhance hydrologic processes