Climate change impacts and forest management

Continue to use existing and proven management techniques.
These keep our trees and native plant communities vigorous,
productive and resilient to adverse changes.
Build in “response diversity”. Manage for high tree species
diversity at the stand and landscape level so that another species
can fill the vacated niche of species that disappears.
D’Amato
• Build structural complexity:
Promote age class diversity;
at least 2 age classes.
Increase reliance on uneven-aged
management.
• Build compositional complexity:
Use new species mixes.
Increase species redundancy by
introducing species over a
wide range of environments.