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Toolkit for Adapting to Climate Change on Western Forests: Incorporating
Climate into Resource Management and Planning
A research-management partnership of research stations and national forests will develop the decision support needed by the U.S. Forest Service to incorporate climate change into management and planning in the West. Scientific information and decision support will be documented in peer reviewed literature and communicated through training, common-language publications, and a web-based portal. In addition, we will collaborate with National Park Service and U.S. Geological Survey to address common interests in climate-change adaptation and validate decision-support tools across diverse landscapes and management objectives. We address four tasks:
- Develop adaptation management resource materials in multiple formats.
- Conduct replicate case studies on three national forests to develop and test decision support for adaptation to climate change.
- Extend case-study results for broader applications across diverse landscapes and ownerships.
- Intensively develop the U.S. Forest Service Climate Change Resource Center (CCRC) website.
FERA will, along with collaborators from the other federal agencies, develop, implement, and report on a case study for Olympic National Forest/Olympic National Park. It will also participate as part of the Steering Team.
This research project has begun, and is expected to be complete in April 2010.
Project Lead: David L. Peterson (PI)
Collaborators: Connie Millar (PI), Pat Manley, Carl Skinner and Mark Nechodom (Pacific Southwest Research Station), Linda Joyce (PI) and Daniel Isaak (Rocky Mountain Research Station), Ron Neilson (PI) and Becky Kerns (Pacific Northwest Research Station), Mike Furniss (Pacific Northwest and Pacific Southwest Research Stations), Bradley Burmark and Michael Landram (Pacific Southwest Region), Sharon Friedman and Claudia Regan (Rocky Mountain Region), Philip Mattson and Kathy O'Halloran (Pacific Northwest Region), Jill Baron (USGS).
U.S. Forest Service - PNW- FERA
Last Modified: Monday, 08 September 2008 at 13:12:51 EDT