<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><strong class="">Webinar: Engaging Managers in Forest Adaptation Science and Application</strong><br class=""><span style="font-size: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">A webinar hosted by the Northeast Climate Science Center on </span><span style="color: rgb(198, 64, 0);" class="">Wednesday, December 6 at 3:30 PM EST</span><span style="font-size: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""> will discuss a series of projects that are examining the effectiveness of historic and emerging forest management strategies for reducing vulnerability to global change. The use of manager input in co-designing experiments and interpreting results is a key component of this work, helping to ensure its on-the-ground relevance. </span><div class=""><strong class=""><a href="https://necsc.umass.edu/webinars/engaging-managers-forest-adaptation-science-and-application-northern-forest-region" class="">Learn more >></a></strong><a href="https://necsc.umass.edu/webinars/engaging-managers-forest-adaptation-science-and-application-northern-forest-region" class="">https://necsc.umass.edu/webinars/engaging-managers-forest-adaptation-science-and-application-northern-forest-region</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><strong class="">Register Now for the USFWS Climate Academy Beginning January 2018</strong><br class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is offering an online course to cover the fundamentals of climate science, provide an overview of tools and resources for climate adaptation, and increase climate literacy and communication skills for natural resource and conservation professionals. Beginning in January 2018, a webinar session with leading experts in these topics will be held weekly for a total of eight sessions. </span></div><div class=""><strong class="">$200.00</strong></div><div class=""><strong class=""><a href="https://training.fws.gov/nctcweb/catalog/CourseDetail.aspx?CourseCodeLong=FWS-ALC3193" class="">Learn more and register >></a> </strong><a href="https://training.fws.gov/nctcweb/catalog/CourseDetail.aspx?CourseCodeLong=FWS-ALC3193" class="">https://training.fws.gov/nctcweb/catalog/CourseDetail.aspx?CourseCodeLong=FWS-ALC3193</a></div><div class=""><b class=""><br class=""></b></div><div class=""><b class="">I’m assuming that these education efforts are at least partly for bringing the agency’s own, in-house staff up to date on climate science. It’s not a bad idea.</b></div><div class=""><b class="">Lance</b></div><div class=""><b class=""><br class=""></b><div 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; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div>------------------------------------------------------------------------<br class="">“We have only one planet and the time has come to transform our present lifestyle and consumption patterns...”<br class=""><br class="">From the Executive Summary, WWF: China Ecological Footprint: Report 2012 : Consumption, production, and sustainability.</div><div>———————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————</div><div>"People should want more, make more, earn more, spend more -- ever more."</div><br class="">Donella Meadows. Just So Much And No More. Yes magazine June 30, 2001<br class=""><a href="http://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/reclaiming-the-commons/437" class="">http://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/reclaiming-the-commons/437</a></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">-------------------------------------------------------<br class="">“Conservationists are unquestionably useful people. And among the many useful services that they have rendered has been that of dramatizing the vast appetite the United States has developed for materials of all kinds.”<br class=""><br class="">“But what of the appetite itself? Surely this is the ultimate source of the problem. If it continues its geometric course, will it not one day have to be restrained? Yet in the literature of the resource problem this is the forbidden question. Over it hangs a nearly total silence.”<br class=""><br class="">John K. Galbraith. “How much should a country consume?”<br class="">In Jarrett, Henry (editor), Perspectives on Conservation. John Hopkins Press. 1958</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br class=""><br class=""></div><img apple-inline="yes" id="3E25DD37-6343-4FE4-9699-4357D474E889" src="cid:47EAF37B-1FD4-40E1-AE1D-0562CA9D08D0@PK5001Z" class=""></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; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><br class=""><a href="https://www.oxfam.org/sites/www.oxfam.org/files/file_attachments/mb-extreme-carbon-inequality-021215-en.pdf" class="">https://www.oxfam.org/sites/www.oxfam.org/files/file_attachments/mb-extreme-carbon-inequality-021215-en.pdf</a><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" 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; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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