Through strategic planning and implementation of projects, partners are working to restore and maintain resilient

landscapes around Missoula. A resilient landscape is one that can sustain robust native biodiversity under changing conditions, and withstand disturbances such as wildfire in the future. The forests around Missoula are fire-dependent. Maintaining healthy forest conditions around Missoula will not only reduce wildfire risk to the things we care about, like neighborhoods and critical infrastructure, but also help Missoula to live and thrive in a wildfire-dependent ecosystem in the future.