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SUMMARY:Webinar Series: Climate-Smart Silviculture
DESCRIPTION:Learn more and register for one or both remaining in the series \nDates and topics are listed below. \nWhile climate-smart forestry is a hot topic in forestry today\, there are many questions about what practicing climate-smart silviculture looks like. In this webinar series\, participants will hear from some of the leading silviculturists\, ecologists\, and foresters – including two Guild members –  about how we can adapt silviculture\, manage for old-growth a with novel threats\, and balance carbon\, forest health\, wildlife habitat\, and other important goals. Each topic will be covered in-depth by one of the experts in a presentation\, and the series will be capped off with a panel where the presenters take questions from participants. All webinars will be recorded and can be viewed for free. This webinar series is presented by the Forest Owners Climate and Carbon Education program. \n\nMarch 11 at 8 am: “Adapting Silviculture to a Changing World” presented by Guild member Maria Janowiak\, Acting Director of the USDA Northern Forests Climate Hub and NIACS.\n\n\nMarch 13 at 8 am: “Managing for Old-Growth with Novel Threats” presented by Paul Catanzaro\, Professor and State Extension Forester at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.\n\n\nMarch 18 at 8 am: “Having it All: Balancing carbon\, forest health\, and other goals” Presented by Guild member Anthony D’Amato\, Professor\, Director of Forestry Program\, and the Director of Research Forests at the University of Vermont.\n\n\nMarch 20 at 8 am: “Climate-smart Silviculture: A panel discussion”
URL:https://foreststewardsguild.org/event/webinar-series-climate-smart-silviculture/
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SUMMARY:Advancing Equitable Approaches to Climate Adaptation
DESCRIPTION:March 19\, 2024\n9:00 a.m. EST \nUniversity of Vermont\, Aiken Center 103\nVirtual via teams \nPreapproved for 1 continuing forestry education credit (1.0 category) \nJoin Rachel H. Swanwick for her Master’s Thesis Defense titled Advancing Equitable Approaches to Climate Adaptation: Exploring Barriers\, Opportunities and Cross-Cultural Socio-Environmental Collaborations for Forest Stewardship across Tribal Nations and State Agencies in Maine\, USA. On Rachel’s committee is Guild member Tony D’Amato and collaborators include Guild member Tyler Everett. \nAbstract: Increasingly\, the socio-environmental challenges confronting forest systems such as climate change\, invasive plant species\, insects\, and pathogens will demand that forest stewards leverage their adaptive potential across spatial and temporal scales. However\, adaptation is not occurring evenly across regions\, resulting in adaptation gaps. These gaps are projected to have greater impacts on vulnerable populations\, such as Indigenous Nations\, whose cultures and rights to self-determination are tied to the landscape. Despite this vulnerability\, multifaceted relationships between Indigenous peoples and their homelands\, informed their inherent adaptability to environmental change. This has led to a growing recognition that Indigenous knowledge systems hold critical insights for adaptation planning and implementation. To advance equitable adaptive actions\, this thesis explores how forest stewards from state agencies and Tribal Nations in present-day Maine\, in the Northeastern U.S.\, perceive their adaptive capacity\, and potential for collaboration to enhance knowledge exchange and reduce the adaption gap. To explore these questions\, we conducted interviews with 22 forest stewards across state agencies (n=12) and Wabanaki Tribal Nations (n=10). Barriers and opportunities for climate adaptation were organized into three themes i) resource availability\, ii) operational capacity and iii) decision making practices. Cross-cultural collaboration was identified as a primary opportunity to enable knowledge exchange and reduce maladaptation. However\, challenges related to socio-political tensions\, institutional incongruities\, and finite capacity limited cooperation. Final study results suggest that adaptive capacity is strengthened by recognizing the sovereignty of Indigenous Nations and co-creating flexible institutions that enable cross-cultural collaborations to sustain forest stewardship.
URL:https://foreststewardsguild.org/event/advancing-equitable-approaches-to-climate-adaptation/
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