Challenges and Opportunities for Integrating Ecological Connectivity into U.S Forest Service Planning and Management
Speaker(s): Braden Hance, Center for Large Landscape Conservation
Description: We conducted research on integrating ecological connectivity into U.S Forest Service planning and management. Our findings address science, planning, management, partnerships, and regional coordination drawn from interviews with individuals from across levels of the agency and partner organizations, and an analysis of 17 forest plans revised under the 2012 Rule.
SAF CFE: 0.5 Category 1
ESA CEU: 0.125

Global Forest Visualization: From Green Marbles to Storyworlds
Speaker(s): Lynda Olman, University of Nevada Reno
Description: Global Forest Watch (GFW) is the premier open-source platform used to monitor both global and regional deforestation in near-real time. We collaborated with GFW developers and users to study the way GFW visualizes forests and to suggest ways to better incorporate the views of the people living in them.
SAF CFE: 0.5 Category 1
ESA CEU: 0.125

Products, Management, and Institutions: a Systems Approach to Mitigating Climate Change with Forestry
Speaker(s): Robert Alec Giffen, New England Forestry Foundation and Clean Air Task Force
Description: Because forestry is embedded within complex biological, social, and economic systems, any approach to harnessing forests to address climate change must consider multiple aspects of these systems. This presentation will focus on three crucial arenas that impact forests' effects on climate change: forest management, harvested wood products, and institutional change.
SAF CFE: 0.5 Category 1
ESA CEU: 0.125