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Maintain landscape heterogeneity to mitigate adverse impacts from fire and mountain pine beetles

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Approach

Maintain landscape heterogeneity to mitigate adverse impacts from fire and mountain pine beetles.

Tactics

  • Promote structural diversity at multiple scales.
  • Focus attention on collection of viable serotinous lodgepole pine seed sources.
  • Use available mapping products to identify areas of potential serotinous lodgepole pine seed sources.

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., Peterson, D.L.; Halofsky, J.E.; Johnson, M.C. (2011). Managing and adapting to changing fire regimes in a warmer climate. In: McKenzie, D.; Miller, C.; Falk, D., eds. The landscape ecology of fire. New York: Springer: 249–267., Halofsky, J.E.; Peterson, D.L., eds. (2017). Climate change and Rocky Mountain ecosystems. Advances in Global Change Research, Volume 63. Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing., Halofsky, J.E.; Warziniack, T.W.; Peterson, D.L.; Ho, J.J. (2017). Understanding and managing the effects of climate change on ecosystem services in the Rocky Mountains. Mountain Research and Development. 37: 340–352. https://doi.org/10.1659/MRD-JOURNAL-D-16-00087.1., , , ,

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Climate Change Effect

Resource Area

Relevant Region

Northern Plains
Northwest
Southwest