Wildfires are increasing in scale and impact on the landscape, altering large amounts of wildlife habitat and forest ecosystems. The reduction of fuels through forest management is considered a primary way to reduce the extent and severity of wildfires before they occur but may lead to a decrease in tree density prohibitive of some species’ habitat. Alternatively, management actions undertaken after a fire may speed the trajectory of burned areas back into quality habitat but may also impede this development if the wrong type of treatment is undertaken. Thus, information on how different management actions, applied either pre- or post-fire, can influence the timing of a burned area’s return to suitable habitat will help managers conserve species on the landscape. Our study aims to understand how a rare carnivore, Canada lynx (Lynx canadensis), uses stands managed with different silviculture actions at different times relative to wildfire. We used GPS locations from 39 individual lynx collected from 2004 to 2015 to examine the response of lynx to wildfire compounded by active forest management, where time since fire at time of use ranged from 1 to 27 years. To understand the drivers behind lynx use of wildfires, we also focused on the primary prey of Canada lynx, snowshoe hares (Lepus americanus), using pellet counts across a similar range of post-fire treatment types in fires between 22 and 28 years old. We also assessed vegetation recovery and forest structure over time since wildfire using remotely sensed data and field measurements. We found that lynx intensity of use differed based on timing and type of management action, with the greatest lynx use ∼25 years after a wildfire managed with post-fire regeneration cuts (removal of the majority of the canopy). Lynx use was likely driven by hare abundance, which was also highest in post-fire regeneration cuts, characterized at time of use by dense lodgepole pine stands. We conclude that managing landscapes with a mosaic of active (pre- and post-fire treatments) and passive (hands-off) management will best conserve a desirable range of lynx habitat in an increasingly fire-impacted landscape.