Mission

The mission of the Taskforce is to provide public and private forest landowners with science-based management options suitable for meeting diverse management objectives under alternative climate change scenarios.

We will fulfill our mission through:

Literature review and problem analysis

• Scientific literature review and problem analysis on forest management and climate change.
• Recommendations for forest landowners, including decision-support tools that will describe management options for meeting a range of management objectives under alternative climate change scenarios.
• Strategic plan for filling important information gaps.

Outreach and education

• Web portal for practical information on forest management and climate change that is relevant and accessible to forest landowners, including web-based decision-support tools that will allow managers to evaluate genetic and silvicultural options for meeting a range of management objectives under alternative climate change scenarios.
• Expert list for information on forest management and climate change (i.e., web-accessible list of technical expertise and contact information for members of the climate change taskforce).
• Fact sheets on forest management and climate change. The problem analysis will be distributed as a series of fact sheets, with each fact sheet focusing on a separate problem analysis sub-topic.
• Problem analysis for forest landowners (downloadable publication).
• Workshops to inform forest managers, and outreach and education specialists on genetic and silvicultural options for adapting to climate change (i.e., to “train the trainers”).