New Project Aims to Improve Forest Resilience in Southern California’s Montane Forests

To showcase a recently-funded SW CASC project, researchers have created a new webpage and project one-pager. The project is focused on the “sky island” montane forests of southern California which feature conifers and several oak species, with the goal of advancing collective knowledge of the vulnerabilities of these forest ecosystems and developing strategies for increasing resilience. The project team consists of partners from the SW CASC, Climate Science Alliance, U.S. Forest Service, and the Institute for Ecological Monitoring and Management at San Diego State University. Through collaborative planning sessions and tree regeneration data collection, the partners aim to build a community of practice, develop a forest conservation strategy, identify implementation actions, and promote collaboration to improve forest resilience.