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Join the Stop Clearcutting CA Sierra Club Chapter monthly at 4PM PT for educational forums about forest conservation efforts.

NEXT FORUM: 

JP O'Brien | May 20, 2024 | Online via Zoom (register online)

Jackson Demonstration State Forest: History and management within the broader context of the redwood region and climate change impacts to forest resources
JDSF is a nearly 50,000 acre expanse of Public land situated within the coast redwood bioregion. Since being purchased by California from Caspar Lumber Company in 1947, JDSF has been, and still is, managed by the state primarily for timber production. This talk will focus on the history of the state's management and the legacy that has left. We will use two independent LiDAR datasets to contextualize present forest conditions within the broader north coast redwood ecosystem and quantitative inventory/harvest data to understand how the forest came to look how it does today. Finally, we will take stock of the current state of climate change to understand how forest resources have and may continue to be impacted for JDSF specifically and the redwood bioregion as a whole.

JP is a Northern California native, raised in the mountains of Trinity County where he also worked as a wilderness patrol ranger in the Trinity Alps. Subsequently, JP earned a Bachelor of Science in applied physics, a graduate certificate in applied spatial statistics, and a Ph.D. in climate and atmospheric science. He did his postdoctoral work in the Climate and Global Dynamics Division at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, in Boulder, Colorado and is currently a research affiliate at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory within the Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division in Berkeley, California.

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  • The Ghost Forest, Greg King, Public Affairs, 2023
  • The Wild Trees, Richard Preston, Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2008
  • Nature's Temples: The Complex World of Old-Growth Forests, Joan Maloof, Timber Press, 2016, New Edition 2023
  • Trees in Trouble: Wildfires, Infestations and Climate Change, Daniel Mathews, Counterpoint Press, 2020
  • Sterile Forest: The Case Against Clearcutting, Ned Fritz, Eakin Press, 1983
  • The Rebirth of Environmentalism: Grassroots Activism from the Spotted Owl to the Polar Bear, Doug Bevington, Island Press, 2009
  • Stream Ecosystems in a Changing Environment, Edited by Jeremy B. Jones and Emily H. Stanley, Elsevier Books, 2016
  • The Overstory, Richard Powers, W.W. Norton, 2018
  • The Forests of California, A Field Atlas, Obi Kaufmann, Heyday Books, 2020
  • Smokescreen:  Debunking Wildfire Myths to Save Our Forests and Our Climate, Chad Hanson, Kentucky Press, 2021

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