ADAPTIVE SILVICULTURE FOR CLIMATE CHANGE WORKSHOP

SRS / NRS / RMRSChippewa NFSan Juan NFFlathead NF

Flathead National ForestJune 28, 2016Linda Nagel, Professor & Department HeadForest & Rangeland StewardshipColorado State University

Workshop GoalsTo introduce natural resource managers to conceptual tools and approaches that help integrate climate change into natural resource management and silvicultural decision making

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Today’s Agenda8:00-8:30 Welcome and overview (Nagel)8:30-9:15 Climate science overview (Swanston)9:30-10:00 Climate change for the Northern Rockies

(Halofsky)10:00-10:30 CC considerations (Nagel)10:45-11:15 Ecology & silviculture of Northern Rockies

forests (Jenkins)11:15-12:00 CC impact & vulnerabilities (Keane)12:00-1:00 Lunch1:00-1:45 CC in the Forest Service, big-picture (Hoang)1:45-2:15 Adaptation (Nagel)2:30-4:45 Group activity: Developing adaptation

approaches and tactics (Nagel & Roske)5:00 Wrap-up, adjourn

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Forest managers need robust, operational examples of how to integrate climate change adaptation into silvicultural planning and on-the-ground actions that can…• Foster resilience to the impacts of climate change and/or • Enable adaptation to uncertain futures

Original Core Team:• Linda Nagel – Lead University PI, CSU, NIACS• Jim Guldin – Lead Forest Service PI, SRS• Matt Powers – ASCC Project Coordinator, OSU, NIACS• Chris Swanston – Research Ecologist & Director of NIACS, NRS• Maria Janowiak – Deputy Director, NRS, NIACS

Adaptive Silviculture for Climate Change (ASCC)4

SRS: Jim Guldin (PI)

NRS/NIACS:Chris SwanstonMaria JanowiakNRS: Brian Palik

RMRS: Linda JoycePSW: Connie Millar

PNW: Dave PetersonOSU: Lisa Ganio

PI: Linda Nagel, CSU

SITE 2: San Juan NF

CollaboratorsStudy SitesSITE 1: Cutfoot EF on Chippewa NF

SITE 5: Hubbard Brook EF & Second College Grant (Dartmouth)

SITE 4: Coram EF on Flathead NF

SITE 3: Jones Ecological CtrSite Lead: Steve Jack

Adaptive Silviculture for Climate Change (ASCC)PIs

Mike Battaglia

3/27/16

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Adaptive Silviculture for Climate Change (ASCC)PROJECT GOALS (1)Populate a multi-region study design with ecosystem-specific climate change adaptation treatments using input from an expert panel of regional scientists and local managers

• Primary objectives: compare key variables among 4 adaptation treatments in 3-5 different forest types across the United States• Forest growth and productivity• Overstory and understory species composition• Forest health and/or tree vigor

TreatmentsResistanceResilienceTransitionNo ActionSensu Millar et al 2007

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Adaptive Silviculture for Climate Change (ASCC)PROJECT GOALS (2)Introduce natural resource managers to conceptual tools and approaches that help integrate climate change into natural resource management and silvicultural decision making

• Primary objectives: conduct training sessions at participating Forests for an audience of local managers and scientists• Discuss projected climate change impacts and vulnerabilities relevant to local management goals• Introduce conceptual tools that help managers identify appropriate adaptation approaches and tactics

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Climate Change Considerations for Forest ManagementActivity #1 8

What new or different considerations do we need to think about when managing forests in the face of a

changing climate?

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