Climate Change, Bioenergy and Sustaining the Forests of Idaho and Montana Conference

This conference will help people connect global-scale issues regarding climate change, renewable energy, and carbon emissions to potential effects on forests in Idaho and Montana

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March 3 & 4, 2010 - Boise, ID

Purpose: This conference will help people connect global-scale issues regarding climate change, renewable energy, and carbon emissions to potential effects on forests in Idaho and Montana. Discussions will center on strategies for sustaining our forests and the services people expect from them.

The sustainability premise: The current and future condition of our forests determines their ability to contribute to our society's energy security, climate change mitigation and resilience goals. Current conditions in the forested areas of Idaho and Montana put forests at risk of stand-replacing wildfire as well as insect and disease outbreaks. Management actions could improve forest conditions and help meet renewable energy and carbon sequestration goals. Forest management actions must be ecologically sound, economically viable, and socially desirable to be sustainable.

Towards a social license: Forest managers can take action to meet these three sustainability conditions only after attaining a social license for implementation. Several efforts are underway in this region to create such licenses. The stories behind these efforts are encouraging and perhaps could be applied more widely, if more people knew about them. We need to consider what is needed to build additional social license or cooperative capacity to move more rapidly in a practical, common sense ways.

Previous related conference: This is the second in a series of conferences and working group sessions planned by the SAF with various partners. The Plum Creek Conference on Forests and Energy was held in Missoula at the University of Montana on September 22-24, 2009. Conference PowerPoint presentations are available and were videotaped, as was a discussion forum panel. See www.cfc.umt.edu/plumcreekconf/

Online registration: The conference agenda, speaker biographies, suggested readings, and online registration ($65) are at the conference website hosted by the University of Idaho:

Click here for registration and conference agenda

Additional Information

Web Site: http://www.uidaho.edu/cnr/forestsbioenergyconference.aspx

Category: Forestry>Education

Region: Idaho

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