April 15th from 10:00 am – 12:00 pm PST

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.