Natural resource professionals face the tremendous challenge of developing and implementing conservation and management plans that help ecosystems respond to climate change.

West Virginia University’s Environmental Research Center will empower those professionals with a two-day training session, Climate Change and West Virginia’s Forests, at the Erickson Alumni Center April 14 and 15.

This hands-on training will incorporate climate change considerations and identify actions for adaptation into their own real-world forest management and conservation projects. The program is designed for public, private and tribal natural resource managers who are interested in enhancing the ability of forests to cope with changing conditions.

The first day of the training will introduce topics of past and future climate change, impacts on forest ecosystems, concepts of adaptation, and real-world examples. The second day will guide a subset of forest managers through a process to incorporate climate change adaptation into forest management and planning.

There is no cost to attend this workshop, but registration is required. Please register using the online link at www.forestadaptation.org/WV-FAPP. For more information on the training, visit the website or contact Jim Anderson, professor and director of the WVU Environmental Research Center, at 304-293-3825 or Jim.Anderson@mail.wvu.edu.

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CONTACT: David Welsh, Davis College of Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Design
304.293.2394, David.Welsh@mail.wvu.edu

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