Name

Manastash Taneum

Priority Landscape Category

20-Year Forest Health Strategic Plan: Eastern WA Priority Landscapes

Description

The Manastash-Taneum priority landscape (or priority planning area) encompasses the Manastash-Taneum Resilient Landscapes Project, which is a major focus of the Tapash collaborative. Forest land in the planning is owned by the WA Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) (37%), Forest Service (38%), DNR (12%), Nature Conservancy (11%), and private (2%).

• Fire risk ranges from extreme in the western half to low in the eastern half.
• Treating an estimated 14,500-25,500 acres of dense forest is recommended to move the landscape into a resilient condition while also sustaining sufficient dense forest to help meet Late Successional Reserve objectives. Maintenance treatments on existing open forest is needed on 2,000-4,000 acres. In sum, treating 24-43% of the forested acres is recommended. These recommendations are based on WA DNR’s update of a landscape evaluation completed by The Nature Conservancy and other project partners using 2012 current conditions data.
• In 2020 an update to the landscape evaluation was conducted  to incorporate landscape treatment priority and wild-fire response benefit priority.

For more information view and download the landscape evaluation summary documents.  Data layers and other information associated with the landscape evaluation are available on Box.

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