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Managing Forests Under Climate Change
The need to practice sustainable forestry
Developed by:Mark Richardson
Project Forester
Eastern Ontario Model Forest
Another workshop in the Course-in-a-Box series of workshops
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Managing Forests Under Climate Change
Another Course-in-a-Box
Course 19
Understanding
Climate Change
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The need to practice sustainable forestryGood
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Main Messages…
1)Don’t overreact
2)Consistent messages to clients
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Message: Don’t Overreact…
1) Understand the topic, and the potential impacts
2) Know how it could affect your vision, goals and objectives
3) Know what to do about it… how to adapt to it
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Message: Don’t Overreact…
1) Understand the topic, and the potential impacts
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Message: Don’t Overreact…
1) Understand the topic, and the potential impacts
“The times, they are a changing”
Impact on woodlots…
Longer growing season
FFC – 2 extra weeks
Shorter winters
Syrup Producers – earlier first run
Winter harvest implications
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Message: Don’t Overreact…
1) Understand the topic, and the potential impacts
Precipitation Trends
•Expected to be drier •Seasonal variation is important
• ~20% in warmer months• ~10 to 20% in colder months
•More erratic precipitation
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Message: Don’t Overreact…
1) Understand the topic, and the potential impacts
Woodlot implications…
•Dry sites are going to be drier•Wet sites may be drier
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Message: Don’t Overreact…
1) Understand the topic, and the potential impacts
More extreme weather events
•Ice - 1998 •Drought – 2001/02•Wind - 2006
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Message: Don’t Overreact…
1) Understand the topic, and the potential impacts
May trigger other problems…
• More invasive species problems
• More native species problems
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Message: Don’t Overreact…
1) Understand the topic, and the potential impacts
The insect that ate British Columbia
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Message: Don’t Overreact…
1) Understand the topic, and the potential impacts
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Message: Don’t Overreact…
1) Understand the topic, and the potential impacts
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Message: Don’t Overreact…
1) Understand the topic, and the potential impacts
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Message: Don’t Overreact…
1) Understand the topic, and the potential impacts
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Message: Don’t Overreact…
1) Understand the topic, and the potential impacts
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Message: Don’t Overreact…
2) Know how these potential impacts could affect your vision, goals and objectives… your organization
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Message: Don’t Overreact…
2) Know how these potential impacts could affect your vision, goals and objectives… your organization
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Message: Don’t Overreact…
3) Know what to do about it
Be a good forest manager
Be aware of forest health trends
Don’t promise miracles
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Message: Don’t Overreact…
3) Know what to do about it
Good Forest Management leads to:• achieving goals• a healthy, productive and diverse
forest
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Message: Don’t Overreact…
3) Know what to do about it
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Message: Don’t Overreact…
3) Know what to do about it Be a good forest manager
New StepHave a mechanism in place to adapt a plan when things go wrong… or don’t happen as planned … or just need to be changed
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Message: Don’t Overreact…
3) Know what to do about it
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GoalsForest typeAgeDiametersSpecial FeaturesConditionMarketsCostPolitical windVolunteers & help
Message: Don’t Overreact…
3) Know what to do about it
Factors which influence how we manage …
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Factors which influence how trees grow …
1. Climate2. Site3. Genetics4. Past Mgt
Efforts
Message: Don’t Overreact…
3) Know what to do about it
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Site
Soil Depth and ‘Quality’
Texture, Moisture Regime & Fertility
Message: Don’t Overreact…
3) Know what to do about it
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Increase the importance of ‘Site’ in the management equation
Message: Don’t Overreact…
3) Know what to do about it
Just because it is a maple stand now does not necessarily mean that it is a good site for maple
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When making management decisions…
• Recognize …
•The vulnerability of poorer sites•The potential of good sites
• Have management goals which are realistic
Message: Don’t Overreact…
3) Know what to do about it
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Message: the need for a consistent message …
Emphasis…
More on improving health, less on improving bottom line
Means….
Extension - forms like this one
Research – people like Dan
Advocacy - forest health and good management
Resources – programs & opportunities
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A changing climate is the perhaps strongest reason why we need to
make sound management decisions which are grounded in science and
driven by the need to protect the forest health continuum
Questions