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Conserving Mature and Old-Growth Forests in a Changing Climate Speaker Series: From Sea to Shining Sea: Mature and Old Growth Forest Conservation from a National and Regional Perspective

October 3 @ 9:00 am - 10:00 am PDT

The 1994 Northwest Forest Plan was heralded as the truce in the Timber Wars and was intended to bring peace to the war in the woods in the Pacific Northwest, home to cathedral ancient forests and the much-maligned northern spotted owl.  In some ways the Northwest Forest Plan succeeded, and in other ways it failed; but it unquestionably brought to the nation’s attention the plight of old growth forests everywhere.  Today, the Forest Service is proposing to amend all national forest plans across the country to conserve these forests, and at the same time is proposing a climate-smart forestry amendment to the Northwest Forest Plan.  How does each amendment stack up against one another, and will either lead to a lasting détente to the Timber Wars, or is this just the latest salvo?

Speaker Biography

Susan Jane Brown is Principal and Chief Legal Counsel of Silvix Resources, a nonprofit environmental law firm with more than 20 years of experience in federal forest law, policy, and collaboration with a mission of using those tools to advance the conservation, restoration, and stewardship of western public lands.  Her primary focus of litigation is federal public lands forest management, but her practice includes cases involving the Endangered Species Act, National Environmental Policy Act, National Forest Management Act, Oregon and California Lands Act, and other land management statutes. Ms. Brown is a former Co-Chair of the National Advisory Committee for Implementation of the National Forest System Land Management Planning Rule, has served on the Federal Advisory Committee for the Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program, and is currently Co-Chair of the Northwest Forest Plan Area Advisory Committee. She teaches Forest Law & Policy to upper division law students at Lewis and Clark Law School in Portland, Oregon and is heavily engaged in collaborative forest restoration in the Upper John Day Basin in eastern Oregon.

Conserving Mature and Old-Growth Forests in a Changing Climate Speaker Series

There is broad agreement that protecting and managing forests is critical for meeting global climate mitigation and sustainable development goals. However, there is less agreement on how to determine what is ‘best’ management to reach these goals in the context of mature and old-growth forests (MOG). This webinar series invites a variety of speakers representing the United States Forest Service, Tribal nations, private forest owners, forest industry, academia, and forest advocacy organizations to share how they are responding to and shaping the discussion on mature and old-growth forests, including as mandated by Executive Order 140752 and the National Old-Growth Amendment.
Join us every Thursday from August 29 to December 5 from 12:00 -12:55 pm U.S. ET. Note that there will not be webinars on September 19 and November 28.
The series is free and open to the public. Each session will be recorded. We will offer CEUs for foresters in attendance. Please email yff@yale.edu(link sends e-mail) for further information.

Series Hosts

This series is co-developed and co-hosted by The Forest School at the Yale School of the Environment, the Yale Applied Science Synthesis Program, the Yale Center for Natural Carbon Capture, and the Society of American Foresters.

Series Facilitators

The series is facilitated by Mark Ashton (The Forest School at YSE), Gary Dunning (The Forest School at YSE), Sara Kuebbing (Yale Applied Science Synthesis Program and Yale Center for Natural Carbon Capture), and Terry Baker (Society of American Foresters).

 

To learn more and register, visit: https://yff.yale.edu/speaker-series/conserving-mature-and-old-growth-forests-changing-climate

Details

Date:
October 3
Time:
9:00 am - 10:00 am PDT
Event Category:
Website:
https://yff.yale.edu/speaker-series/conserving-mature-and-old-growth-forests-changing-climate

Organizer

Yale School of the Environment

Venue

Virtual
Alaska
Oregon
Washington

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