6 - How Do We Promote Resilience of Planted Forests?

Friday, October 27, 2023

5:15pm - 5:30pm PST

Location: A4

Speaker(s)

Ryan Tompkins, MF, RPF (he/him/his)

Forestry And Natural Resource Advisor
University of California, Agriculture & Natural Resources
Quincy, California, United States

Co-author(s)

BC

Brandon Collins, PhD.

Associate Adjunct Professor
UC Berkeley

Disturbances like extended drought-driven tree mortality and increasing scale of high severity wildfires are cumulatively impacting the dry mixed conifer forests of the Sierra Nevada. In this twenty-first century of climate change, how do we incorporate ecological concepts of resistance and resilience into post fire restoration and reforestation?