In a nutshell: Dr. Connor Crouch will present on three threats facing quaking aspen in the Southwest – climate, pests and disease, and livestock browse – and three management objectives and strategies that can be implemented to improve aspen resilience and adaptive capacity, leaving attendees with actionable suggestions for resource management.
Date and time: Wednesday, January 22, 2025 at 12:00pm AZ/MT
Description: In this webinar from the Forest Stewards Guild and Southwest Fire Science Consortium, attendees will hear about insights from the recent paper “Building Ecosystem Resilience and Adaptive Capacity: a Systematic Review of Aspen Ecology and Management in the Southwest” (https://doi.org/10.1093/forsci/fxad004). The speaker will highlight the threat to aspen ecosystems posed by climate change, chronic ungulate browse, and outbreaks of the invasive insect oystershell scale. He will make the case for three aspen management objectives to address these threats and increase aspen resilience and adaptive capacity: (1) promote diversity in age structure by enhancing regeneration and recruitment, (2) mitigate impacts of ungulate browse on recruitment, and (3) enhance structural, adaptive, and functional complexity. The webinar will detail how various management strategies could meet these objectives.
Speaker: Dr. Connor Crouch, Forester with the USDA Forest Service, Mark Twain National Forest.
This webinar is co-hosted by the Arizona Wildfire Initiative.
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