STRATEGY 1.4.1: Fire-Adapted Ecosystems

Establish fire-adapted ecosystems.

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Declining vegetative health has contributed to the increasing risk of wildfire which threatens landscapes and communities. Factors contributing to this decline include weather variability, climate change, fire exclusion, spread of insects and diseases and non-native species, changing land use, and fragmentation. In the aggregate, these factors pose a significant challenge to establishing and maintaining healthy, resilient landscapes and communities. A principal mechanism for restoring areas that have become unacceptable wildland fire risks is reducing the types and amounts of fire fuels. One measure of the effectiveness of these treatments is the degree to which a treated area moves toward its historical fi re regime, or condition class.

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