Landscape-level prescriptions: A new foundation for restoration planning

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This brief was developed to help guide collaborative landscape planning efforts, through use of a framework of seven core principles and their implications for management of fire-prone interior forest landscapes.

Key findings included:

• Historically, forests were spatially heterogeneous at multiple scales as a result of interactions among succession, disturbance, and other processes.
• Planning and management are needed at fine to broad scales to restore the key characteristics of resilience.
• Landscapes must be viewed as socio-ecological systems that provide services to people within the limited capacities of ecosystems.
• Development of landscape-level prescriptions is the foundation of restoration planning.