| Please join the Forest Guild and over two dozen partners throughout the Southwest who are collaborating to present the New Mexico Forestry and Climate Change Workshop, to be held Nov. 20, 2008, at the Albuquerque Grand Hotel in New Mexico.
The goal of this workshop is to provide foresters and other natural resource professionals with information about climate change’s projected impacts on New Mexico’s forests and potential responses to incorporate into their management decision making.
Forest managers, researchers, landowners, students, activists, and the general public are encouraged to attend.
To stimulate discussion and debate on this topic and to prepare presentations for this workshop, we organized four working groups, each comprised of researchers and forest managers focusing on one of New Mexico’s dominant forest types (bosque, piñon-juniper, ponderosa pine, and mixed conifer/aspen).
These working groups began meeting this past spring and their presentations will include practical on-the-ground knowledge and management considerations about climate change for use by foresters and other resource managers. The workshop will also include a plenary overview session about climate change and New Mexico’s forests as well as a luncheon with guest speaker(s) discussing prospects for new state and federal climate change legislation and policies in 2009.
Speakers will include:
Craig Allen, Jemez Mountains Field Station, U.S. Geological Survey; -
Connie Millar, Sierra Nevada Research Center, U.S. Forest Service;
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Julie Coonrod, Department of Civil Engineering, University of New Mexico;
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Karen Bagne, Rocky Mountain Research Station, U.S. Forest Service; and
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Denise Fort, University of New Mexico School of Law.
Howard Gross is the Executive Director of the Forest Guild. Headquartered in Santa Fe, N.M., the Forest Guild is a national organization that practices and promotes ecologically, economically, and socially responsible forestry—“excellent forestry”— as a means of sustaining the integrity of forest ecosystems and the human communities dependent upon them.
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