Topics Featured In The Plan:

• Promote diversity of forest age and size classes to enhance biodiversity and increase resilience of forest ecosystems.
• Increase summer stream flows through changes in forest management.
• Prevent loss of relict populations of vascular and nonvascular species.
• Increase riparian resilience to changing hydrologic conditions.
• Improve understanding of and protect surface flows and groundwater.
• Reduce the impact of invasive species on riparian habitat.
• Improve watershed health and functioning.
• Maintain the hydroperiod and water supply for wetlands.
• Maintain and enhance wetland function and conditions, particularly in priority wetlands.
• Prioritize, protect, and manage wetland habitat to reduce potential for habitat loss.
• Work with the appropriate land and road management agencies to ensure adequate secure habitat during the development of road and trail projects.
• Increase understanding of changes in elk populations through monitoring.
• Identify, protect, and enhance mountain goat habitat that may be affected by climate change.
• Increase understanding of changes in mountain goat populations through monitoring.
• Increase resilience to climate change by preserving biodiversity in alpine habitat.
• Prioritize, protect, and manage alpine habitat to reduce potential for habitat loss.
• Prioritize, protect, and manage subalpine habitat to reduce potential for habitat loss.
• Increase invasive species management efforts in subalpine meadow habitat.
• Gather information and data that can be used to prioritize and adapt subalpine meadow habitat to the effects of climate change.
• Increase resilience through postfire management.
• Restore coastal habitat for climate change adaptation.
• Use judicious managed relocation of genotypes where appropriate.
• Increase Alaska yellow cedar habitat area and quality.
• Increase resilience of forest stands to disturbance by increasing tree vigor.
• Prioritize, protect, and manage evergreen huckleberry habitat to reduce potential for habitat loss.
• Remove trees that are encroaching into evergreen huckleberry habitat.
• Prevent and control widespread outbreaks of invasive species or pathogens.
• Address the potential for climate change to impact connectivity through increased potential for human-bear interactions due to declines in snowpack.
• Enhance landscape connectivity to facilitate range shifts.
• Reduce human-made barriers to increase black-tailed deer habitat connectivity.
• Increase understanding of changes in black-tailed deer populations by monitoring the populations.
• Identify and restore key ecosystem functions to increase resilience to higher peak flows and erosion.
• Maintain and enhance wetland function and conditions, particularly in priority wetlands, including upland forested wetlands
• Increase invasive species management efforts in wetlands.
• Increase resilience to sea level rise and shoreline erosion by maintaining and restoring estuary habitat.
• Where possible, limit the use of shoreline armoring and development to improve the resilience of nearshore habitats to sea level rise and erosion.
• Increase resilience of forest stands to disturbances by increasing tree vigor and ecosystem health.
• Manage forest structure to enhance snowpack retention.
• Increase resiliency in forests at the landscape level.
• Increase resilience to climate change in tree communities with vulnerable species.
• Preserve native riparian habitat and maintain habitat connectivity.
• Reduce the impact of public use and infrastructure on erosion and sediment deposition in riparian areas.
• Manage grazing to reduce impacts on riparian vegetation and soil structure.
• Minimize recreational disturbance on mountain goat habitat.
• Support reduction of the amount and persistence of roads in and near mountain goat habitat.
• Plan and prepare for a greater wildfire risk.
• Increase resilience by promoting native genotypes and adapted genotypes of native species.
• Prevent widespread outbreaks of non-native species or pathogens to maintain integrity of native plant populations.
• Increase resistance to invasion by non-native insects.
• Communicate the importance of a sustainable evergreen huckleberry population.
• Prevent widespread outbreaks of non-native species to maintain integrity of evergreen huckleberry populations.
• Identify, protect, and enhance black-tailed deer habitat that may be affected by climate change.
• Work with the appropriate land and road management agencies to ensure adequate secure elk habitat during the development of road and trail projects.
• Monitor and detect long-term change in species health, species distribution, species growth, and disturbance processes.
• Increase resistance of western redcedar to summer moisture stress.