ADAPTIVE SILVICULTURE FOR CLIMATE CHANGE WORKSHOP

SRS NRS RMRS Chippewa NF San Juan NF

The Joseph W. Jones Ecological Research Center January 12, 2016

Workshop Goals • To introduce natural resource

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

Today’s Agenda 8:00-8:30 Welcome and overview (Nagel)

8:30-9:15 Climate science overview (Swanston)

9:30-10:15 Climate change in the southern coastal plain

(Vose)

10:15-11:00 Climate change impacts and vulnerabilities

(Brantley)

11:00-12:00 CC considerations & silviculture of the

coastal plains (Nagel & Jack)

12:00-1:00 Lunch

1:00-2:15 Incorporating climate change adaptation

into silvicultural decision-making (Guldin &

Nagel)

2:30-4:45 Group activity: Developing adaptation

approaches and tactics (Nagel & Roske)

5:00 Wrap-up, adjourn

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)

SRS: Jim Guldin (PI)

NRS/NIACS: Chris Swanston Maria Janowiak

NRS: Brian Palik

RMRS: Linda Joyce

PSW: Connie Millar

PNW: Dave Peterson

OSU: Lisa Ganio

PI: Linda Nagel, CSU

SITE 2: San Juan NF

Collaborators

Study Sites

Ouachita or Kisatchie

SITE 1: Cutfoot Exp Forest on Chippewa NF

Northeast – N Hdwds

Northern Rockies

SITE 3: Jones Ecological Ctr Site Lead: Steve Jack

Adaptive Silviculture for Climate Change (ASCC) PIs

Mike Battaglia

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

Treatments Resistance Resilience Transition No Action Sensu Millar et al 2007

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

Climate Change Considerations for Forest Management

Activity #1

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

changing climate?

Activity #1