Transcript 6. Integrating Climate Change

Integration
Climate
Change and other
Regional / National
Priorities
Marc Kramer
Senior Climate Change Scientist
Region 6
Specialist Meeting
November 2011
What are the benefits to the Forest ?
-Forming a climate change team (with specialists, NR
Staff, District CC coordinators)
-Developing a climate change plan in 2012 for end-to-end
integration of climate change by 2015
-Integrating climate change considerations into all
aspect of operations and employees program of work.
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Climate Change Scorecard
2012 Goals:
Communicate the linkages
and benefits of CC
activities to FLT and RLT.
-Forest Plan Revision
-NEPA, EA’s and CC
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Climate Change Scorecard
-Integrate with other
Restoration/Conservation
Priorities:
-WCF
-TCF
-TRACS
-Minimum Roads
-Restoration
-Travel Management
-Provide leadership on addressing climate change on NF
lands.
-Help to address this problem regionally, nationally and
globally.
-Direction and priority from the Chief, Regional Forester,
and the RO
-Serve as a model for others to follow
-Formulation of a plan will help:
-Identify gaps and resource needs necessary to
address climate change.
-Help see where and if the pieces ‘fit’ together.
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Climate Change Scorecard
Some common themes in addressing climate
change to other priority areas:
-Direction from the Chief, Regional Forester and
the RO
-All Land Approach –Partnerships with state,
private, and federal entities are key.
-Landscape-scale approach needed
-A natural ‘fit’ with on going restoration and fuels
management activities.
-A necessary component of forest plan revision,
NEPA and EA’s
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Thinning and Climate Change:
How many more years can we keep doing
this ?
A Climate change response strategy
synergistic with managing for:
-Increased landscape heterogeneity
-More early seral forest on the
landscape
Vital for landscape
structure,
function
-A more diverse response strategy to
deal with uncertainty associated with climate
change.
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How Do These All Fit Together ?
-Climate change vulnerability and adaptation
assessments (2012 - 2015)
-WCF (2011)
-TCF (2012)
-TRACS (2012)
-Minimum Roads (2015)
-Restoration (On Going)
-Travel Management (On Going)
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Climate Change Scorecard