Project Area
Management Goals
Overarching goals in these stands are to 1) Implement Natural Climate Solutions pathways to increase forest carbon sequestration and storage; and 2) Establish and maintain a productive and resilient forest. Specific objectives include 1) increasing property-wide forest carbon stocks by at least 20%; 2) rehabilitating degraded forest stands to enhance carbon sequestration; 3) balancing age classes by managing 5% of the property as young forest habitat while stable forest stands mature; 4) increasing the amount of large trees, saplings, and snags; 5) establishing advanced oak and northern hardwoods regeneration in appropriate stands; and 6) maintaining better forest stocking in riparian areas.
Climate Change Impacts
Challenges and Opportunities
Challenges
Opportunities
Adaptation Actions
Project participants used the Adaptation Workbook to develop several adaptation actions for this project, including:
9.1. Favor or restore native species that are expected to be adapted to future conditions.
9.2. Establish or encourage new mixes of native species.
5.2. Maintain and restore diversity of native species
1.2 Reforest lands that have been deforested and afforest suitable lands
5.1. Promote diverse age classes.
5.3. Retain biological legacies.
6.1. Manage habitats over a range of sites and conditions.
6.1 Increase structural complexity through retention of biological legacies in living and dead wood
9.3. Guide changes in species composition at early stages of stand development.
1.2 Reforest lands that have been deforested and afforest suitable lands
9.3. Guide changes in species composition at early stages of stand development.
9.5. Disfavor species that are distinctly maladapted.
9.1. Favor or restore native species that are expected to be adapted to future conditions