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
July 2008
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]
- Enclosure: 02/15/08 Climate Change Letter [RTF]
February 2008
- 02/15/08 Climate Change Letter [RTF]
- Enclosure: High Priority Actions to Address Climate Change, 2008 [RTF]
October 2007
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.
Last Modified: 04/30/2009