Climate change impacts and forest management
Climate change impacts and forest management
Climate change impacts and forest management
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Implications for tree species<br />
• The prairie/ <strong>forest</strong> border will shift<br />
north <strong>and</strong> east.<br />
• The range of boreal species will shift<br />
northeast.<br />
• Red <strong>and</strong> white pines will hold their<br />
own or do better.<br />
• Northern hardwoods will exp<strong>and</strong>. Red<br />
maple will become very<br />
abundant. Sugar maple <strong>and</strong> red<br />
oaks will increase.<br />
• Birch will rapidly decline; aspen may<br />
slowly decline.<br />
• Central hardwoods will increase but<br />
need connectivity.<br />
Iverson, Frelich, White<br />
Lose acreage:<br />
Quaking aspen<br />
Paper birch<br />
Balsam fir<br />
Black ash<br />
Black spruce<br />
Balm of gilead<br />
Tamarack<br />
Jack pine<br />
White cedar<br />
Mt. maple<br />
Gain acreage:<br />
Bur oak<br />
E. red cedar<br />
Cottonwood<br />
Black walnut<br />
Hackberry<br />
N. red oak<br />
White oak<br />
Honey locust<br />
Silver maple<br />
Boxelder
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