Manage understory and adjacent biomes for non-pyrophilous hardwoods and historic vegetation communities that have been shown to calm wildfire.
Practice assisted migration and re-introduction of extirpated ungulate and other species that build soil carbon through understory fuel-ladder browsing/grazing, urine/feces/carcass deposition and restoration of hyporheic hydrologies. Herbicides are an inferior proxy for historic grazing/browsing disturbance. Ungulate predators are neccesary to prevent over-grazing and type conversion to artificially aridified landscapes.
Rebuild and optimize for indigenous mycelial foodwebs degraded by excessive roadbuilding, heavy equipment impact, over-grazing and artificial fertilizers.
Co-manage prescribed burning with traditional ecological knowledge practitioners.
-Nik Bertulis
