Length
30 minutes
Track
Urban Forestry
Audience
Technical
Type
Concurrent
Warmer temperatures, changing precipitation patterns, and altered severe weather will create additional challenges for urban trees. This presentation will show how to assess vulnerability of your urban trees to climate change and will introduce tools for developing your own adaptation plan.
Speaker(s)
Leslie Brandt, Climate Change Specialist, Northern Institute of Applied Climate Science, USDA Forest Service
Fun Fact: Leslie is part of the team that is piloting the first urban adaptive silviculture for climate change experiment at Crosby Farm Regional Park in St. Paul.