Document Type
Newsletter
Volume
12
Issue
2
Editor
Paul Rogers
Publisher
Western Aspen Alliance
Publication Date
5-2021
First Page
1
Last Page
6
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Abstract
District-wide Aspen Habitat Restoration
Don DeLong
Ashley Egan
A habitat restoration project on the Greys River District is intended to tackle a host of wildlife issues, and our highest priority will be restoring a more natural balance of succession stages in aspen, big sagebrush, and mountain shrubland communities. Particular to aspen, the 2009 Greys River District Aspen Assessment doubled the known acreage of aspen and it identified 84% of the aspen acreage on the district as being overtopped by conifers by moderately-high to very-high degrees. Aspen stands in advanced stages of succession are given the highest priority for treatment. The best assurance against declines in biological diversity, which generally corresponds with the amount of thriving aspen, is to approximate the conditions under which native wildlife communities existed prior to Euro-American settlement (2012 Planning Rule of the U.S. Forest Service). We undertake this project knowing we face ongoing challenges of climate change and invasive species.
Recommended Citation
Western Aspen Alliance, "Tremblings, May 2021" (2021). Tremblings. Paper 47.
https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/tremblings/47