Approach
Maintain spatial patterns that are resilient to disturbance. Promote habitat and structural heterogeneity and diversity. Maintains landscape permeability.
Tactics
- Maintain landscape that is likely to support mixed-severity fire: Consider use of prescribed fire that mimics mixed-severity fire. Mechanical treatments to break up landscape level contiguous fuels prior to prescribed fire Wildland fire for resource benefits.
- Develop stand- and project-level prescriptions to maintain heterogeneity; maintain high quality early seral habitats across the landscape with legacies.
- Develop landscape connectivity and permeability patterns for animal movement at multiple scales.
Sensitivity
Strategy
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