<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><span class="" style="font-size: medium; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">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. </span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><strong class=""><a href="http://bit.ly/2tGjGfx" class="">Learn more >></a> </strong><a href="https://www.fs.fed.us/nrs/pubs/jrnl/2017/nrs_2017_nagel_001.pdf" class="">https://www.fs.fed.us/nrs/pubs/jrnl/2017/nrs_2017_nagel_001.pdf</a></div><div class="">
<div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br class="">“How does one justify trying to cope with what may be intractable problems? <br class="">The very nature of the question belies its origins in the assumption of science <br class="">that one has to believe that all problems are solvable.”<br class=""><br class="">Seymour Sarason. The Nature of Problem Solving in Social Action. <br class="">American Psychologist. April, 1978<br class=""><br class="">==============================<br class="">" 'Hopelessness' … is often derived from unfulfillable, rather than from merely unfulfilled, </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">desires and wishes focused on impossible aims. It diminishes with the development of </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">capability to change aim. Its counterpart is not just 'hope' but enthusiasm and zest."</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><br class="">Barbara Betz, M.D. <br class="">International Journal of Psychiatry. May, 1968</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">=================================================<br class="">" ‘Triage’ is a dirty word in some conservation circles, but like many dirty words, <br class="">it describes something common. Whether they admit it or not, conservationists <br class="">have long had to make decisions about what to save.<br class=""><br class="">"As more and more admit it, open discussion about how the decisions are best made <br class="">— by concentrating on particular species, or particular places, or absolute costs, or any <br class="">other criterion — becomes possible. Whichever criteria come into play, one thing <br class="">remains constant. The decisions have to be made quickly."<br class=""><br class="">Emma Marris, "What To Let Go."<br class="">NATURE November 8, 2007</div></div>
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