Traveling trees: Assisted migration for climate resilience
Forest Service climate adaptation specialist Leslie Brandt stands in front of an adaptive silviculture site planted with cottonwood seedlings from trees adapted to warmer climate conditions. Her team is assessing if these trees are more resilient to the changing climate conditions there. (Photo courtesy of…
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Partnerships help private landowners tackle effects of climate change
Editor’s note: Maddy Baroli, a climate adaptation specialist at the Northern Institute of Applied Climate Science, contributed to this article. Maria Janowiak is the acting director of the Northern Institute of Applied Climate Science & USDA Northern Forests Climate Hub. This feature is published in conjunction with Climate Week NYC, the 14th year that experts from around the world, including…