[MCN] Forest management: Can agencies - and industry - adapt to climate change?

[Lance Olsen]

Forest managers across the U.S. are faced with implementing adaptation strategies in the face of severe droughts, wildfires, and other climate-related impacts. However, there is a lack of information to indicate which tactics might be most effective. A recent publication, with support from the Northeast CSC, discusses a network of research sites where ecosystem-specific adaptation approaches are being tested, and highlights the implementation process at two of the study sites. 

Learn more >> <http://bit.ly/2tGjGfx> https://www.fs.fed.us/nrs/pubs/jrnl/2017/nrs_2017_nagel_001.pdf <https://www.fs.fed.us/nrs/pubs/jrnl/2017/nrs_2017_nagel_001.pdf>
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“How does one justify trying to cope with what may be intractable problems? 
The very nature of the question belies its origins in the assumption of science 
that one has to believe that all problems are solvable.”

Seymour Sarason. The Nature of Problem Solving in Social Action. 
American Psychologist. April, 1978

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" 'Hopelessness' … is often derived from unfulfillable, rather than from merely unfulfilled, 
desires and wishes focused on impossible aims.  It diminishes with the development of 
capability to change aim.  Its counterpart is not just 'hope' but enthusiasm and zest."

Barbara Betz, M.D. 
International Journal of Psychiatry.  May, 1968
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" ‘Triage’ is a dirty word in some conservation circles, but like many dirty words, 
it describes something common. Whether they admit it or not, conservationists 
have long had to make decisions about what to save.

"As more and more admit it, open discussion about how the decisions are best made 
— by concentrating on particular species, or particular places, or absolute costs, or any 
other criterion — becomes possible. Whichever criteria come into play, one thing 
remains constant. The decisions have to be made quickly."

Emma Marris, "What To Let Go."
NATURE November 8, 2007

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