Climate Change

Quick Links to the topics on this page:

• Letters From Leadership
• Presentations
• Tools
• Reports
• Articles
• Greenhouse Gas Inventories
• Climate Change Teams
• Contacts

Letters From Leadership

March 2009

• 3/13/2009 Strategic Framework Response to Climate Change - Climate Change Sustainable Operations Team [RTF]
  • Climate Change Sustainable Operations Team Charter [PDF]
  • Climate Change Monitoring Team Charter [PDF]

July 2008

• 7/7/08 Human Capital Flexibilities to Reduce Fuel Consumption [PDF]

June 2008

• 06/23/08 Climate Change Companion Document to the Forest Service Strategic Plan for FY 2007-2012 [PDF]
  • Enclosure: 02/15/08 Climate Change Letter [RTF]
    • Enclosure: High Priority Actions to Address Climate Change, 2008 [RTF]

February 2008

• 02/15/08 Climate Change Letter [RTF]
  • Enclosure: High Priority Actions to Address Climate Change, 2008 [RTF]

October 2007

• 10/19/07 Leadership Changes [RTF]

Presentations

• Adaptation for Climate Change on the Olympic National Forest [pdf]
  • Olympic NF - Thursday, April 2, 2009, 1100 - 1215

Tools

• Handbook on Alternative Work Schedules
• Fact Sheet on Flexible Work Schedules
• Fact Sheet on Compressed Work Schedules
• The EcoDriver's Manual [PDF, 6 pages, 1.45 MB]

Reports

• 3/19/2009 Status Report Activities Implementing the Strategic Framework for Responding to Climate Change [PDF]
• Is the Forest Service a Carbon Source or a Carbon Sink? [PDF, 2 pages]
• Meeting EO13423 and Energy Independence & Security Act of 2007 Goals by 2015 And Employing an Agency-wide Culture of Sustainable Practices by 2020 [PDF, 17 pages, 189 kb]

Articles

• 2/25/08 The New Yorker - Big Foot: In Measuring Carbon Emissions, It's Easy to Confuse Morality and Science
• 12/28/2007 - Forest Service Joins EPA’s Climate Leaders Program
• 10/07 - ASC's Monthly Environmental Newsletter [PDF]

Greenhouse Gas Inventories

• Learn about the Forest Service’s partnership with the EPA Climate Leaders program and its agency-wide inventory of greenhouse emissions based on a quality management system.

Climate Change Teams

Team Charters

• Climate Change Adaptation Priorities Team [PDF]
• Climate Change Alliances Team [PDF]
• Climate Change Education Team [PDF]
• Climate Change Mitigation Team [PDF]
• Climate Change Monitoring Team [PDF]
• Climate Change Science/Management Integration Team [PDF]
• Climate Change Sustainable Operations Team [PDF]

Contacts

• Climate Change: Key Contacts in the Forest Service [PDF, 5 pages]
  Note: This is a working list of key contacts for persons seeking more information about Forest Service actions on climate change. It is not intended to be an exhaustive list, but rather a list of potential first points of contact for information-seekers who are not sure where to start within the agency. For each contact, there is a brief indication of their principal role in the Forest Service response to climate change.