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Conserving Mature and Old-Growth Forests in a Changing Climate Speaker Series: Considerations in managing mature and old growth forests on non-federal lands in the United States

October 31 @ 9:00 am - 10:00 am PDT

Forest lands in the United States are owned primarily by private forest landowners who have a wide variety of forest management objectives and reasons for owning forests. Mature and old growth forests can be rare in the parts of the nation, yet some private landowners may wish to manage for this forest type. In this talk, Heather will discuss several considerations in managing for mature and old growth forests on non-federally owned forest land and their implications for the forest industry, climate resilience, and overall forest health.

Speaker Biography

Heather Slayton is the 10th State Forester/Assistant Commissioner for the Tennessee Department of Agriculture, Division of Forestry (TDA-DF). She is responsible for directing the activities of the Division of Forestry in state forest management, wildfire prevention and suppression, reforestation, landowner assistance programs, forest health initiatives, urban forestry programs and forest inventory.
Heather is originally from Danville VA and has a bachelor’s degree in forestry from Virginia Tech and a master’s degree in forestry from University of Tennessee. She enjoys educating people on the values of active forest management and working on her hobby farm in Rutherford County, TN.

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 31
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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