This field note presents an early example of a forest climate adaptation tree planting project incorporating assisted migration in southern New England which is valuable in providing lessons that can inform future work in this region and elsewhere. This effort is notable for moving forward through the implementation and monitoring stages during a period when many similar projects encountered barriers. The project is located on...

The importance of forests for sequestering carbon has created widespread interest among land managers for identifying actions that maintain or enhance carbon storage in forests. Managing for forest carbon under changing climatic conditions underscores a need for resources that help identify adaptation actions that align with carbon management. We developed the Forest Carbon Management Menu to help translate broad carbon manage...

7Massive fires in Indonesian peatlands in the 1990s and in eastern Russian peatlands in 2002 and last year have highlighted the need to manage forests overlying peat deposits, as well as converted peat forests and open peatlands. Peat or peaty soils, contain 65% or more of partially decayed vegetation, can burn freely or underground. They cover some 10 percent of worldwide forests and contain 25 percent of all terrestrial carb...

Enthusiasm for the use of forest biomass as an energy resource is growing as a result of increased energy costs and a desire to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions responsible for climate change. Although the opportunity exists for forests to have a significant role in the development and use of bioenergy technologies, justifiable concerns regarding the long-term sustainability of using forest-based energy feedstocks have emer...

Diameter distributions are frequently used to describe northern hardwood stand structure and serve as a structural guide for management. Several diameter distribution shapes have been found in managed and unmanaged uneven-aged northern hardwood stands, and it is unclear which patterns are due primarily to natural processes that could be self-perpetuating versus patterns that may be transient or aberrant. Variability in researc...