Planting for the Future: Managing Urban Forests for Climate Change

Abstract

Scientists and managers are working together through an effort called Adaptive Silviculture for Climate Change (ASCC). This framework, primarily implemented in rural areas, is now being applied to an area along the Mississippi River National Recreation Area in the Minneapolis-Saint Paul metropolitan area. The project involves test plots for alternative climate change strategies in an urban floodplain forest and is designed to provide a degree of real-time feedback to managers to ensure that the forests along the river continue to provide important services as the climate changes.

Citation

USDA Forest Service. 2020. Planting for the Future: Managing Urban Forests for Climate Change. The Cross-Pollinator. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Urban Field Station Network. Issue 2. 8p.