Chapter 4 Habitats
purposes in the face of anticipated climate change, but above all, it promotes ecosystem resilience.
Priority Conservation Action, Examples of Focal Species or Focal Habitats
• Work cooperatively with other agencies to define sustainable forestry criteria for biomass production.
• Provide landowners with the option to purchase Longleaf seedlings that stay in the grass stage longer. This will allow the trees to better establish their root systems in the hurricane zone and will also provide a longer period of high-quality early successional habitat.
• Give high priority to protecting and expanding the few remaining examples regardless of climate change. Because these systems are likely to withstand the stresses of changing climate well, restoring more of them in the near future would produce more resilient natural landscapes.
References are located at the end of this document.
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