Mark Johnston, Senior Research Scientist with the Saskatchewan Research Council, presents "Canada's Transitioning Forests in the Midst of Threats and Climate Change" at the 2018 Forest Forum.

Abstract: Canada’s western boreal forest is under threat from several sources: fire, insects and disease, drought and human disturbance, all potentially intensified by climate change. This presentation will provide a high-level overview of these threats and how climate change may affect them and the interactions among them. I will then provide some ideas about how climate change risks can be assessed using tools specific to Canadian Sustainable Forest Management (SFM), and will show how climate change considerations can be brought into SFM and become part of day-to-day planning and decision making.

The Forest Forum was one in the series of annual research forums that the Mountain Pine Beetle Ecology Program hosts in Edmonton, Alberta. It was held April 24 and 25, 2018, at the University of Alberta.

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