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Provide thermal refugia and opportunities for movement

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Approach

Provide thermal refugia and opportunities for movement.

Tactics

  • Maintain thermal and security refugia.
  • Maintain landscape permeability for animal movement: provide passage structures across major highways; close roads; maintain elevational connectivity.

Sensitivity

Strategy

Halofsky, J.E.; Peterson, D.L.; Ho, J.J. (201X). Climate change vulnerability and adaptation in south central Oregon. Gen. Tech. Rep. PNW-GTR-xxx. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station. In press., 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., ,

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Climate Change Effect

Resource Area

Relevant Region

Midwest
Northeast
Northern Plains
Northwest
Southwest