Re-inventing Management of Western Forests in the Face of
Climate Change: Adap
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Mark Andre (by way of Tracy Katelman, ASJE <tracy@asje.org>)
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Feb 05, 2007 13:05 PST
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From ASJE's 2007 Restoration Organization of the Year:
City of Arcata
PRESS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact:Mark André,
Director
Environmental Services
822-8184
February 5, 2007
Re-inventing Management of Western Forests in the
Face of Climate Change: Adaptation and Mitigation Strategies
City of Arcata 2007 Forest Lecture Series- March 2, 2007 at 6
P.M.
The public is invited to attend the City of Arcata 2007 Forest Lecture
Series featuring a presentation, Re-inventing Management of Western
Forests in the Face of Climate Change: Adaptation and Mitigation
Strategies by Dr. Constance Millar, Research
Paleoecologist, USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station,
Sierra Nevada Research Center, Albany, California.
Millar currently studies the response of subalpine forests in the
Sierra Nevada and Great Basin to historic and current climate change. In
1992 she was nominated as a PEW Scholar for Conservation and the
Environment. Millar is a leading organizer and co-director of the
consortium, CIRMOUNT (Consortium for Integrated Climate Research in
Western Mountains), an interdisciplinary science initiative dedicated to
understanding climate, ecosystem response to climate, and effects of
climate on natural resources and resource management in the mountains of
western North America. Millar received her PH.D in Genetics and M.S. in
Wildland Resources Science from the University of California, Berkeley.
She also holds a B.S. in Forest Science from the University of
Washington.
Meet at the Arcata Marsh Interpretive Center, 569 South G
Street on March 2, 2007 at 6 p.m. For more information call
the City of Arcata, Environmental Services Department at 822-8184.
Snacks provided!
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For additional information please contact: Mark
André,
Director
Environmental Services
822-8184
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