Prescribed Burn Old Woman Plateau Handout

Prescribed Burn Old Woman Plateau Handout
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Prescribed Burning on the Old Woman Plateau CART Case Study Handout

The USFS used prescribed fire, hand and mechanical thinning to reintroduce fire to ponderosa pine, pinyon-juniper, sagebrush sagebrush
The western United States’ sagebrush country encompasses over 175 million acres of public and private lands. The sagebrush landscape provides many benefits to our rural economies and communities, and it serves as crucial habitat for a diversity of wildlife, including the iconic greater sage-grouse and over 350 other species.

Learn more about sagebrush and mountainbrush ecosystems and create a mosaic of burns across the landscape to increase resilience to changes in fire and climate. 

Read full case study here: https://www.fws.gov/project/prescribed-burn-old-woman-plateau

 

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