Options for Natural Resource Management under a Changing Climate

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Presenter: Linda Joyce
Length: 34 min and 22 s

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       Topics:

• Options for Natural Resource Management under a Changing Climate
• In the Past,
• Usual Cast of Characters
• Observers of the Natural World
• What Have Natural Resource Managers Been Doing
• Assessment
• Monitoring
• Planning and Policy
• On-the-Ground Movement
• Past and Current Management Activities
• Synthesis of Observations, Experiments, Models
• Climate Change 2007
• Additional IPCC Reports
• Adaptiation in Human Systems
• Broad Categories
• Unplanned Response to Climate Change
• Assumptions in Current Management Premises
• Planned Reaction to Changing Disturbances
• Altered Disturbance Regimes
• Precipitation Patterns Are Changing
• Earlier Onset of Spring Snowmelt and Less Snowpack
• Anticipatory, proactively respond to climate changes
• Reframing Management Strategies
• Create and Increase Resistance
• Create Resilience
• Respond to Climate Influences
• Expand Genetic Diversity Guidelines
• Use Redundancy
• Realign Conditions to Current Dynamics
• Mitigation
• Main Points

These presentations were produced by Michael J. Furniss and Jeff Guntle, of the US Forest Service, PNW and PSW Research Stations.
US Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, Pacific Southwest Research Station, Stream Systems Technology Center