Adaptation pathways: ecoregion and land ownership influences on climate adaptation decision-making in forest management

Ontl, Todd A.; Swanston, Chris; Brandt, Leslie A.; Butler, Patricia R.; D’Amato, Anthony W.; Handler, Stephen D.; Janowiak, Maria K.; Shannon, P. Danielle

doi:10.1007/s10584-017-1983-3

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“…Our process of combining peer-reviewed and gray literature with the expertise of recreation-focused scientists and practitioners resulted in a comprehensive suite of solutions for a wide range of locations. These methods have been used to develop similar menus for other resources and proven to generate thoughtful climate-informed projects across multiple states, ownerships, and resource areas [11,17,[56][57][58].…”

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“…There are some limitations to our testing of the menu in only two locations in the same location. Previous research has shown factors such as land ownership and geography can influence the types of adaptation strategies selected by land managers [56]. For example, the need for additional strategies or approaches may have been revealed if we had tested the menu in low-elevation coastal areas that are experiencing challenges from storm surge, hurricanes, or sea-level rise.…”

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Climate Change Adaptation Strategies and Approaches for Outdoor Recreation

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Climate change will alter opportunities and demand for outdoor recreation through altered winter weather conditions and season length, climate-driven changes in user preferences, and damage to recreational infrastructure, among other factors. To ensure that outdoor recreation remains sustainable in the face of these challenges, natural resource managers may need to adapt their recreation management. One of the major challenges of adapting recreation to climate change is translating broad concepts into specific, tangible actions. Using a combination of in-depth interviews of recreational managers and a review of peer-reviewed literature and government reports, we developed a synthesis of impacts, strategies, and approaches, and a tiered structure that organizes this information. Six broad climate adaptation strategies and 25 more specific approaches were identified and organized into a “recreation menu”. The recreation menu was tested with two national forests in the US in multi-day workshops designed to integrate these concepts into real-world projects that were at the beginning stages of the planning process. We found that the recreation menu was broad yet specific enough to be applied to recreation-focused projects with different objectives and climate change impacts. These strategies and approaches serve as stepping stones to enable natural resource and recreation managers to translate broad concepts into targeted and prescriptive actions for implementing adaptation.

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“…The efficacy of these adaptive silvicultural treatments is currently being studied and evaluated across a wide range of forest conditions and geographical regions , 2013, Nagel et al 2017, Ontl et al 2018 Forest managers are increasingly tasked with managing forest systems to meet diverse goals and objectives beyond the sustained production of wood products (Seymour, 1999 (Weiskittel et al 2019). In addition, individual tree based growth and yield models remain limited in their ability to integrate stochastic events (i.e., disturbance) or the influence of climate variation on tree growth or establishment.…”

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“…Changing climatic conditions, altered disturbance regimes, increasing prevalence of invasive pests and pathogens, land use and tenure change, and shifting markets and societal demands on forest goods and services all add complexity to the management of forest ecosystems (Iverson et al 2008, Zhu et al 2012, Iverson et al 2017. This uncertainty and complexity has led resource managers, scientists, and policy makers to pursue further integration of vulnerability assessments , Janowiak 2018, adaptive management principles (Spies et al 2010, Nagel et al 2017, and decision support tools like forest landscape simulation models into forest management planning activities (Scheller et al 2007, Ravenscroft et al 2010, Duveneck and Scheller 2016.…”

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Future forest composition under a changing climate and adaptive forest management in southeastern Vermont, USA

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Global environmental change represents one of the greatest challenges facing forest resource managers today. The uncertainty and variability of potential future impacts related to shifting climatic and disturbance regimes on forest systems has led resource managers to seek out alternative management approaches to sustain the long-term delivery of forest ecosystem services. To this end, forest managers have begun incorporating adaptation strategies into resource planning and are increasingly utilizing the outcomes of forest landscape simulation and climate envelope models to guide decisions regarding potential strategies to employ. These tools can be used alongside traditional methods to assist managers in understanding the potential long-term effects of management and climate on future forest composition and productivity. This study used a spatially explicit forest landscape simulation model, Landis-II, to examine and evaluate a range of long-term effects of current and alternative forest management under three projected climate scenarios within a 50,000-hectare forested landscape in southeastern Vermont, USA. Multiple scenarios were examined within this mixed ownership landscape, allowing for an evaluation of the influence of management and climate on future forest conditions in the region. These simulations indicate that landuse legacies and the inertia associated with long-term forest successional trajectories are projected to be an important driver of future forest composition and biomass conditions for the next 100 years. Nevertheless, climate is projected to have a greater influence on species composition and aboveground biomass over the next two centuries, with forests containing a greater abundance of species from more southerly regions and lower levels of aboveground biomass, resulting in shifts in the future provisioning of ecosystem services.

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Operationalizing forest‐assisted migration in the context of climate change adaptation: Examples from the eastern USA

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There is increasing momentum to implement conservation and management approaches that adapt forests to climate change so as to sustain ecosystem functions. These range from actions designed to increase the resistance of current composition and structure to negative impacts to those designed to transition forests to substantially different characteristics. A component of many adaptation approaches will likely include assisted migration of future climate-adapted tree species or genotypes. While forest-assisted migration (FAM) has been discussed conceptually and examined experimentally for almost a decade, operationalizing FAM (i.e., routine use in forest conservation and management projects) lags behind the acceptance of the need for climate adaptation. As the vulnerability of forest ecosystems in climate change increases, FAM may need to become an integral management tool to reduce long-term risks to ecosystem function, despite real and perceived barriers for its implementation. Here we discuss the concept of operational-scale FAM and why it remains a controversial, not yet widely adopted component of climate adaptation. We present three case studies of operational-scale FAM to illustrate how the practice can be approached pragmatically within an adaptation framework despite the barriers to acceptance. Finally, we discuss a path toward advancing the wide use of operational-scale FAM.

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Adaptation pathways: ecoregion and land ownership influences on climate adaptation decision-making in forest management

Cited by 34 publications

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Climate Change Adaptation Strategies and Approaches for Outdoor Recreation

Climate Change Adaptation Strategies and Approaches for Outdoor Recreation

Future forest composition under a changing climate and adaptive forest management in southeastern Vermont, USA

Operationalizing forest‐assisted migration in the context of climate change adaptation: Examples from the eastern USA

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