Toward integrated fire management to promote ecosystem resilience

•Management interventions for addressing invading annual grasses and encroaching conifers their effects on fire dynamics in the sagebrush ecosystem are largely reactive.•Reactive management limits tools promoting long-term resilience a fire-prone landscape.•We propose an integrated approach which all activities before, during, after wildfire synergistic improve response to fire.•Harney County Wildfire Collaborative is adapting Potential Operational Delineations (PODs) framework outcomes promote values at risk Stinkingwater Mountains pilot project area.•The PODs serves broader geographic strategy underlying causes of frequent severe wildfires ecosystem.