Managing Forest Management Breakout Session

NACP All Investigators Meeting

19 February 2009

Session Overview

“This session will build on the reports from the First All Investigators Meeting, and work on mapping a strategy and forming teams to meet key forest management decision support needs.”

Session Goals

• Brainstorm wish list of projects and products

• Select smaller list of 3 or 4 longer term projects that we’d like to plan

• Identify one or two shorter term projects for immediate development– Can produce product in 1-2 years– Clear goals, results relevant for managers

Outcomes

• Main priority– Literature review of possible C implications of

common management practices for major forest types and regions

– Regions and important forest types were identified

– Review will include assessment of “known unknowns” – what are critical data gaps that could affect the C outcomes – e.g. decay of DDW

Outcomes, con’t...

• Also – C implications of fuel reduction treatments– Avoided emissions from reducing wildfire risk– Fate of C in removed fuels

• Longer-term project: develop an action plan and concrete steps for developing regional BMPs for carbon management

Turn in your colleagues!

• Still need some regional coordinators to help with synthesis on C implications of management practices– Pacific Northwest – Westside– Lake States– South Central

• Contact Coeli Hoover: choover@fs.fed.us