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Adaptation Strategies for Climate & Fire in the Southwest Martha Sample, Northern Arizona University 8th International Fire Ecology and Management Congress November 21, 2019 Applying FireCLIME results to management Project outcomes

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Adaptation Strategies for Climate & Fire in the Southwest

Martha Sample, Northern Arizona University 8th International Fire Ecology and Management Congress November 21, 2019

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Applying FireCLIME results to management

Project outcomes designed to be useful to managers
Manager co-PIs and partners involved throughout project
How to deliver FireCLIME products in an effective and practical way?

○ Information dump? ○ Best Management Practices? ○ Other options???? Overwhelming! Too prescriptive!

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Swanston et al., 2016, NRS-GTR-87-2 “Forests across the United States are expected to undergo numerous changes in response to the changing climate. This second edition of the Forest Adaptation Resources provides a collection of resources designed to help forest managers incorporate climate change considerations into management and devise adaptation tactics. It was developed as part of the Climate Change Response Framework and reflects the expertise, creativity, and feedback of dozens of direct contributors and hundreds of users of the first edition over the last several years...”

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Swanston et al., 2016, NRS-GTR-87-2

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Swanston et al., 2016, NRS-GTR-87-2

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Presented as a ‘menu’ of actions, which can be adjusted

and refined into tactics that help to achieve a specific management objective in a specific location

Provides examples of tactics that could be used to

implement an approach, recognizing that specific tactics will be selected/designed by the manager

Flexible approach accommodates diverse management goals,

geographic settings, local site conditions, other management considerations Swanston et al., 2016, NRS-GTR-87-2

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Swanston et al., 2016, NRS-GTR-87-2

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Swanston et al., 2016, NRS-GTR-87-2 Annotated Bib & VA Fire Adaptation Strategies

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This outline is a start, but… We need your feedback!

Please take a copy of the ‘Fire Adaptation Strategies and Approaches’ print out Email your comments/edits to martha.sample@nau.edu OR, put your email on our sign-up sheet and I will email you a digital copy

Adaptation Strategies for Climate & Fire in the Southwest

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