Manage to avoid repeated disturbances that can result in a habitat type/species conversion

Approach

Tactics

Protect native bunchgrass and shrub-steppe habitats.
Break up fuel continuity to reduce likelihood of widespread fire.
Use methodologies that reduce adverse impact of treatments (e.g., invasion by annual grasses following prescribed fire or wildfire).
Control invasive plants.
Remove invading conifer trees.
Manage motorized recreation, grazing and other anthropogenic stressors.
Identify the best remaining areas of habitat types; maintain and restore a diversity of types and seral stages across the landscape; monitor ecotones.
Respond rapidly to invasive species, including feral animals.

Sensitivity

• Increased wildfire and other disturbances may lead to habitat type and species conversion (e.g. loss of big sage after fire that never returns to big sage).

Strategy

Reduce the risk and long-term impacts of severe disturbances