Northwest Forest Plan Science Synthesis - Tech Transfer Webinar

The U.S. Forest Service’s Pacific Northwest and Pacific Southwest Research Stations developed the Synthesis of Science to Inform Land Management within the Northwest Forest Plan Area. The synthesis is a comprehensive review of the science that has emerged since the Plan was enacted in 1994 and will help to provide a science foundation for forest plan revisions for 17 national forests within the 24-million-acre NWFP area in western Washington, western Oregon, and northern California. An executive summary of the synthesis is also available.

To help land and resource managers understand the potential implications of the synthesis’s findings and to promote in-depth discussion of the synthesis’s topical areas, PNW Research Station has hosted technical Webinars. These Webinars feature presentations given by the lead chapter authors. Below are links to the presentations made during a Webinar held on September 19, 2018.

Overview: Key Findings (Presentation PDF - 1.94 MB)

Chapter 1: Introduction (Presentation PDF - 2.45 MB)

Chapter 2: Climate, Disturbance, & the Vulnerability to Vegetation Change in the NW Forest Plan Area (Presentation PDF - 4.3 MB)

Chapter 3: Old Growth, Disturbance, Forest Succession & Management in the area of the NW Forest Plan (Presentation PDF - 3.29 MB)

Chapter 4 to 6 will be available later this fall

Chapter 7: Aquatic Conservation Strategy of the NWFP – Review of the Relevant Science after 23 Years (Presentation PDF - 4.31 MB)

Chapter 8: Socioeconomic Well-Being and Forest Management in Northwest Forest Plan-Area Communities (Presentation PDF - 7.89 MB)

Chapter 9: Understanding Our Changing Public Values, Resource Uses & Engagement Processes (Presentation PDF - 2.41 MB)

Chapter 10: Environmental Justice, Low-Income & Minority Populations, & Forest Management (Presentation PDF - 2.95 MB)

Chapter 11: Tribal Ecocultural Resources and Engagement (Presentation PDF - 5.23 MB)

Chapter 12: Integrating Ecological and Social Science to Inform Land Management in the Area of the NWFP (Presentation PDF - 2.5 MB)