ReThinking Forest Management in the West
Presenter: Connie Millar
Length: 43 min and 53 s
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Topics:
- Natural Climate Cycles
- IPCC Overview Highlights
- IPCC Temperature and Co2 Projections
- West: Temp and Precip
- West: Drought Cycles
- West: Snowpack and Streamflow
- West: Glaciers
- West: Forest Densification
- West: Forest Mortality
- West: Climate and Fire
- California: 2100 Climate Projection
- Current Mgmt Paradigms
- Question: Are Current Concepts OK?
- Limitations of Current Premises 1. HRV
- 2. Ecologic Sustainability
- 3. NRV
- 4. Disturbance
- New Mgmt Premises
- Management Decisions
- Overview 5 "R" Strategies
- Toolbox Approach
- Resistence Strategy
- Examples of Resistence
- Short Term Nature of Resistence Strategies
- Resilience Strategy
- Examples of Resilience
- Response Strategy
- Examples of Response
- Realignment Strategy
- Reduction Strategy
- Sequestering Co2
- Reducing Ecological Footprint
- Settling Priorities
- Summary: Management Options