After landscapes have burned in wildfires, difficult decisions must be made about where to direct recovery efforts and the actions that will promote resistance to annual grasses and, ultimately, restore a functional sagebrush ecosystem.
Post-fire planning informed by Threat-Based Strategic Conservation (TBSC) offers a framework for making management decisions and focusing limited resources across large burned areas, or on smaller parcels such as a private landholding within a larger fire perimeter. Focusing on impacted rangelands prone to annual grass invasion, the planning framework extends and makes actionable “Defend the Core, Grow the Core” principles in a post-fire environment where management decisions are both urgent and important. The post-fire planning framework uses 5 categories—anchor, maintain, improve, contain, and monitor—to equip producers and agency and county staff involved in post-fire rehabilitation decisions with a spatial strategy that can be used to inform strategic selection of management actions on an individual ranch or across large, multi-jurisdictional landscapes.
This 2-hour SageCon sponsored webinar will provide an overview of the TBSC-informed Post-Fire Planning framework, including a live demonstration of the development of a real TBSC post-fire plan from the 2024 fire season.
Presenters include Katie Wollstein, Dustin Johnson, Chad Boyd and Cameron Duquette from the Eastern Oregon Agricultural Research Center.
