{"id":45583,"date":"2019-04-23T12:00:47","date_gmt":"2019-04-23T17:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=45583"},"modified":"2019-04-23T12:00:52","modified_gmt":"2019-04-23T17:00:52","slug":"climate-and-forests-land-managers-must-adapt-and-conservationists-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=45583","title":{"rendered":"Climate and Forests: Land Managers Must Adapt, and Conservationists, Too"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2019\/04\/23\/climate-and-forests-land-managers-must-adapt-and-conservationists-too\/\">Climate and Forests: Land Managers Must Adapt,&nbsp;and Conservationists, Too<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The case for&nbsp;<em>adaptive management<\/em>&nbsp;by land management agencies has been in the making for a long time, and takes on a new urgency with the changes being forced by the emissions from consumer and industrial combustion of fossil fuels. The case for<em>&nbsp;adaptive<\/em>&nbsp;<em>conservation<\/em>by non-governmental organizations takes on its own urgency for the same reason.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As conceived so far, adaptive&nbsp;<em>management<\/em>&nbsp;implies adaptation by land management agencies such as the USDA Forest Service. By now, it\u2019s clear as clear can be that, among others, the Forest Service simply must adapt to the new conditions of heat and drought driven by emissions from consumer and industrial combustion of coal, oil, and natural gas. Taken down to cases, the agency must adapt by recognizing which species are unlikely to persist under increasing emissions, and by shifting its management emphasis to species that might hang in there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At least some in the Forest Service \u201cget it.\u201d For example, consider this November 1, 2016&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.usda.gov\/2016\/11\/01\/looking-to-the-future-and-learning-from-the-past-in-our-national-forests\/\">assessment<\/a>&nbsp;by Randy Johnson, U.S. Forest Service Research and Development Program: \u201cForests are changing in ways they\u2019ve never experienced before because today\u2019s growing conditions are different from anything in the past. The climate is changing at an unprecedented rate.\u201d Johnson thus asks, \u201cWhen replanting a forest after disturbances, does it make sense to try to reestablish what was there before? Or, should we find re-plant material that might be more appropriate to current and future conditions of a changing environment?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Ya can\u2019t always get what ya want<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By forcing change on the set of conditions \u2014 temperature, rainfall, snowfall, wind, etc. \u2014 that we summarize as climate, we\u2019ve been forcing change on the forests. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Climate and Forests: Land Managers Must Adapt,&nbsp;and Conservationists, Too The case for&nbsp;adaptive management&nbsp;by land management agencies has been in the making for a long time, and takes on a new urgency with the changes being forced by the emissions from consumer and industrial combustion of fossil fuels. The case for&nbsp;adaptive&nbsp;conservationby non-governmental organizations takes on its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[25689,141,5493,4553,17474,25688,827],"class_list":["post-45583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-adaptive-management","tag-climate-change","tag-counterpunch","tag-forests","tag-lance-olsen","tag-land-management","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45583"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45584,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45583\/revisions\/45584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}