A Framework for Climate Adaptive Landscape Management (CALM) on the Mendocino National Forest

Nearly 90% of the Mendocino National Forest burned in the 2018 Ranch Fire and 2020 August Complex. What now?

Managers are not only faced with the challenge of supporting ecosystem recovery across a vast post-fire landscape, but they are also faced with ensuring that these ecosystems will be resilient to future disturbances. 

This restoration strategy pulls together scientific datasets and knowledge from forest managers to understand the status of ecosystem health and integrity across the Mendocino National Forest (MNF) and to identify short- and long-term restoration objectives and management needs in burned and unburned areas.

We used the Postfire Restoration Framework for National Forests in California (GTR-270) to spatially partition the landscape into potential restoration opportunities for three focal resources: conifer forest, late seral habitat, and oak woodland.