2013 Pinchot Distinguished Lecture

Tom Tidwell, Chief of the US Forest Service, delivered the 2013 Pinchot Distinguished Lecture: "Sustaining Forests in the Time of Climate Change." Tidwell discussed FS goals for restoration, the need to reauthorize stewardship contracting, the healthy forest - clean water nexus, and more.

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Redefining Forest Conservation in the Anthropocene

by Al Sample

For forest scientists and the people and organizations charged with conserving and sustainably managing forests, the world is also becoming less predictable, in very unsettling ways. The strident yet ultimately sterile debate over whether or not humanity is responsible for climate change cannot alter the fact that the climate is indeed changing, and in ways that will severely challenge our existing science and practices in renewable resource management.

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