Maintain, sustain, retain, and encourage recruitment to overstory

Approach

Tactics

Remove conifers with prescribed fire and logging.
Protect and encourage regeneration using fencing and ungulate management by reducing numbers and change the season of use to graze early.
Conduct public outreach to help manage for aspen snags; restrict firewood cutting; target ranchette owners with information; include aspen in public education; use “this is a wildlife home” signs and similar.

Sensitivity

• Increased fire frequency will result in loss of mixed age aspen stands and loss of mature aspen and snags.

Strategy

Maintain and enhance species and structural diversity