Approach
Plan and prepare for greater area burned.
Tactics
- Incorporate climate change into fire management plans.
- Anticipate more opportunities to use wildfire for resource benefit.
- Plan post-fire response for large fires.
- Consider using prescribed fire to facilitate transition to a new fire regime in drier forests.
- Consider planting fire-tolerant tree species post-fire in areas with increasing fire frequency.
- Manage forest restoration for future range of variability.
Sensitivity
Strategy
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