Аннотация:Increasing frequency and extent of high-severity wildfires pose a significant threat to California's ecosystems.This is evident in both tree-and shrub-dominated landscapes, where novel, human-driven fire regimes may result in large-scale alteration of terrestrial ecosystems and decline in the services they provide.Based on these trends and a broader consideration of sustainability, there is a growing need for a well-supported, science-based approach to postfire management.This report presents a framework to guide the development of postfire restoration on national forests in California.The framework is founded on a set of guiding principles and a five-step process that leads to the development of a restoration portfolio that can inform project planning and monitoring.We discuss the application of this approach to California's forest, chaparral, and sagebrush-steppe ecosystems.The restoration framework can inform future postfire management, monitoring, and research in California's diverse ecosystems.
