Use high-severity wildfires as opportunities to “reset the clock”

Approach

Tactics

Use post-fire timber harvest to prevent uncharacteristic reburns.
Allow some burned areas to regenerate naturally.

Sensitivity

• Increased temperatures and lower snowpack will result in more fire (larger aerial extent and more high-severity patches) and more area in recently burned or early-successional stages.

Strategy

Realign following severe disturbance