Climate Considerations When Developing Updated Seed Zones
Webinar Details
When:
Apr 26, 2017 11:00 am US/Eastern
Length: 00:46 (hh:mm)
Advance Registration NOT required.
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Presenter(s):
- Aurelia Baca, Climate Specialist with the Eastern Threat Center-hosted USDA Southeast Regional Climate Hub (SERCH)
Virtual Event Format:
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The second of the Eastern Seed Zone Forum's online lecture and discussion hours aimed at providing both information about the creation of seed zones in general and a forum in which professionals, experts, and interested parties discuss the possibility of drafting seed zone guidelines for the eastern United States.
Please join the USDA Forest Service Reforestation, Nurseries, and Genetics Resources team for its second discussion about what it will takes to create seed zone guidelines* to serve as tools for improved collaborations and partnership in the region. Aurelia Baca, Climate Specialist with the Southeast Regional Climate Hub (SERCH), will deliver a lecture on the climate science factors that must be considered when developing updated seed zones for the southeastern United States. After the lecture, participants will share their own expertise and have further opportunities to get involved in the effort. Connect with our forum and join the conversation!
About the ESZF
The National Forest System needs your help to develop seed zones for the eastern United States! With the input of forestry and natural resource professionals like you, these seed zones have the potential to provide a common frame of reference for nurseries, arboreta, state and federal agencies, and other natural resource organizations to address sustainable forest management and ecosystem restoration challenges across regional and political boundaries.
* Please note: our objective is NOT to create recommendations for moving seed across the landscape, also known as "seed transfer guidelines." The science of seed transfer is not within the scope of this project. Instead, our primary goal is to develop a common lexicon for discussing locality across administrative barriers. This work will aid land managers who wish to move seed in the future for assisted migration.
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