Please join us on Friday, May 2, 2014 at the USFS Wildland Fire Training Center, McClellan, CA for the Fire Ecosystem Forest Management & Water Yield Symposium.
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Water yield and Sierra forest management have emerged as critical issues in ecosystem management. Severe drought, increasingly massive fire incidents, fuel loaded forests, and climate change trends combined have forced re-evaluation of watershed forest management methods to increase water supply (and power production), protect forests from catastrophic fires, and build resilience to climate change effects.
This symposium seeks to gather all decision-makers, project implementers, water and power managers, researchers, and stakeholders interested in the science and economics of maintaining healthy forests and water reliability. The key goals of the symposium are to:
? Provide an overview of the topic and a summary of current published and reviewed scientific studies, (Bales, February 2014).
? Convene a researchers' forum to identify gaps in our knowledge base and establish a timetable to address them
? Provide an overview of local, regional, state and federal level issues with examples of model projects and plans.
? Present an economic model of optimal forest treatment methods with cost/benefit comparisons to wildfire, (SNC, April 2014).
? Present the economic assessment of the Rim Fire, and climate change predictions for Sierran fire trends, (EarthEconomics, December 2013).
? Describe the economics of ecosystem service elements that are part of fire management practices, with examples of successful projects with financial analysis.
? Convene the economic and leadership forum for a dialogue on next steps
Who:
The Symposium has invited leading scientists and economists who will join policy and project leaders to provide attendees with state-of-the-art scientific, economic, and political knowledge of the subject area. The symposium will feature speakers from UC Merced, USFS Pacific Southwest Research Station, UC Berkeley Center for Forestry, Colorado School of Mines, Mt Counties Water Resource Association, among several other groups.
Where:
USFS Wildland Fire Training Center, McClellan, CA
When:
May 2, 2014
9am to 4:30pm
How:
To register, please use this American River Watershed Institute website. Registration is $55 before April 18, and $85 after. Student registration is $20 before 4/18 and $45 after. For more information, please feel free to contact Otis Wollan, at otiswollan(at)gmail.com or 530-320-6841.
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