This 12-part monthly webinar series will explore forest ecosystems and their composition and structure under a changing climate, and the influence on wildlife populations and carbon dynamics. The series will also share tools and management approaches to help facilitate forest and wildlife climate adaptation at both landscape and stand scales.
Series topics will be applicable to biologists, foresters, land managers and planners, and other natural resource practitioners working in Federal, State, Tribal, and local government agencies, and non-government and private organizations, with an interest in the intersection of climate change adaptation, forest ecology, and wildlife habitat management.
Each month's presentation topic is intended to build upon the prior webinar in order to tell a cohesive story about climate change impacts on forest ecosystems and forest-dependent wildlife and provide adaptation options and lessons learned. The series begins with a Special Webinar Presentation on the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Climate Change Action Program and Nature-Based Solutions for Forest Adaptation to set the stage for the 12-part webinar series story.
This webinar series is now complete.Credits:
This webinar series was sponsored by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) - Forest Ecology Working Group (FEWG), Science Applications and Migratory Birds Programs, and the National Conservation Training Center (NCTC) together with the USDA Northern Forests Climate Hub and the Northern Institute of Applied Climate Science (NIACS), a collaborative, multi-institutional partnership led by the Forest Service.
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Climate Change Action Program and Nature-Based Solutions for Forest Adaptation
This webinar was presented on March 15, 2022
This webinar is presented by Kurt Johnson, USFWS-Science Applications, and Sara Ward, USFWS-Ecological Services. This presentation introduces the the USFWS Climate Change Action Program, reviews Nature-based solutions, and sets up the Climate Adaptation for Forest-Dependent Wildlife Webinar Series.
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Climate Change Impacts on Forest Ecosystems
This webinar was presented on April 19, 2022
This webinar is presented by Jim Vose, North Carolina State University and USDA Forest Service (retired). This presentation gives an overview of climate change science and effects on forest ecosystems and managing for resilience under changing climate and disturbance regimes.
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Forest Carbon Cycle
This webinar was presented on June 22, 2022
This webinar is presented by Todd Ontl, Northern Institute of Applied Climate Science and Michigan Technological University.This presentation discusses integrating climate change considerations into forest carbon management, forest adaptation actions that benefit carbon, and trade-offs and co-benefits of carbon management with wildlife habitat goals.
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Climate Change Impacts on Wildlife
This webinar was presented on July 28, 2022
This webinar is presented by Olivia LeDee, U.S. Geological Survey, Midwest Climate Adaptation Science Center. This presentation gives an overview of how climate change affects phenology, reproductive success, life stages, and habitat changes of wildlife species, as well as discussing links between changes in biophysical environments and changes in fitness, abundance, and/or distribution of wildlife species and habitat.
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Effects of Climate Change and Shifting Disturbance Regimes on Wildlife Habitat in the Western U.S.
This webinar was presented on August 16, 2022
Andrew Larson with the University of Montana discusses ecological silviculture for frequent-fire ponderosa pine and dry mixed-conifer ecosystems, their disturbance regimes, and forest dynamics. This presentation touches on uncharacteristic and post-fire forest landscape management and how to respond to change in rapidly evolving ecosystems with ecologically based treatments.
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Natural Disturbance-Based Silvicultural Strategies, Adaptation, and Wildlife Outcomes
This webinar was presented on September 20, 2022
This webinar is presented by Tony D'Amato, University of Vermont. This presentation gives an overview of the effects of climate on forests and how disturbances shape habitats through impacts on forest composition and structure, with a focus on ecological silvicultural systems.
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Strategies for Forest Climate Adaptation Decisions Making
This webinar was presented on October 18, 2022
This webinar is presented by Dawn Magness with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. This presentation discusses the purpose of the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge to "conserve fish and wildlife populations and habitats in their natural diversity" and what it means given that climate change will transform community assemblages. Should we accept change and how could we take action to resist or direct it?
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The Adaptation Workbook and Wildlife Adaptation Menu: Structured Flexibility for Management Decisions
This webinar was presented on November 15, 2022
This webinar is presented by Stephen Handler with the USDA Forest Service and the Northern Institute of Applied Climate Science. This presentation introduces the Adaptation Workbook process for developing custom-built adaptation plans, including the use of the Wildlife Adaptation Menu for organizing terrestrial wildlife management ideas into specific adaptation actions. Examples are provided of how managers are using these tools to meet management goals for forest-dependent wildlife.
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Persist in Place of Shift in Space? Applying Assessments of Species' Adaptive Capacity to Inform Climate Adaptation Actions
This webinar was presented on December 13, 2022
Miranda Curzon with Iowa State University discusses drivers of change, including wind, floods, fire, pests, and invasive species, on Central Hardwood and Oak forest types and gives site-specific examples from the The Adaptive Silviculture for Climate Change (ASCC) Network.
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Climate Adaptation Strategies for Longleaf Pine Ecosystems
This webinar was presented on January 17, 2023
This webinar is presented by Joshua Puhlick with The Jones Center at Ichauway. This presentation will focus on the application of ecological forestry concepts in the southeast, including the role of fire, and its influence on wildlife species and carbon stocks and sequestration.
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Forest Management for Culturally Significant Wildlife
This webinar was presented on February 21, 2023
This webinar is presented by Keith Karnes with the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe and Eric Clark with the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians. This presentation provides an overview of the Tribal Forest Protection Act, 638 Agreement Authority project, partnerships on tribal lands, and habitat management for culturally important wildlife species.
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Pathways for Climate-Informed Forest Management
This webinar was presented on March 14, 2023
This webinar is presented by Dr. Chris Swanston with the USDA Forest Service Office of Sustainability and Climate. This presentation will focus on pathways for climate-informed forest management in the context of both forest and wildlife objectives and adaptive forest management using ecological forestry tools. This is the final webinar in the full CAFFDW series.