U.S. Forest Service to Adapt Woodland Management to Climate Change
Monday, November 30, 2009 - 15:21
in Earth & Climate
Forest Service Chief Tom Tidwell has directed the agency's regions and research stations to jointly produce draft "landscape conservation action plans" by March 1 to guide its day-to-day response to climate change.In a memo earlier this month requesting the plans, Tidwell said climate change is "dramatically reshaping" how the agency will deliver on its mission of sustaining the health and diversity of the nation's forests . He focused particularly on water management . [More]