Table of Contents with linked timecodes:
00:31
Context of and introduction to episode 5 (host: C
Barlow)
04:08 bark beetles, climate damage, 400 ppm
CO2 threshold
06:35 devastating worldview shift via
US Forest Service maps
08:40 Map 1:
Colorado Blue Spruce now,
2030, 2060, 2090
11:46 Map 2:
Engelmann Spruce now, etc.
12:38 Map 3:
Douglas Fir
14:28 Map 4:
White Fir
15:28
NYT Op-ed by
Henry M
Paulson: dire climate warning
18:18 Map 5:
Whitebark Pine &
Yellowstone grizzlies & trout
20:20 Climate change makes trees vulnerable to native pests
22:00 Map 6:
Rocky Mountain Bristlecone Pine
23:16 Map 7:
Limber Pine
24:15 Map 8:
Lodgepole Pine
25:02 Map 9: Pinyon Pine
26:43 Map 10:
Ponderosa Pine
28:15
Beetle infestations force homeowners to seek logging
29:00
Action: put pheromone packets onto trees to deter beetles
30:07
Worldview shifts from preserving to thinning dense forests
31:08
Video of logger cutting down large Douglas Fir,
Colorado
31:33 Ponderosa Pine: genetic physiological diffs bt populations
32:31
Intro to Assisted
Migration and seed transfer guidelines
34:16
Natural seed dispersal rate too slow (
IPCC 2014 chart)
35:22 Wind-dispersed
Siberian elm,
Willow, Cottonwood are fast
35:43
Trees are least capable of moving with climate change
37:09
Pros and cons of mountain v. flatland migration paths
38:17
Michigan is rapidly losing boreal forest to climate change
39:23 Paleoecology teaches that human impact is far too fast
41:25 max 2 degrees C rise by
2100 may no longer be achievable
43:50 Why Arctic will warm 9X more than tropics; polar vortex
46:02
Canadian foresters are already planting for climate change
49:23
Timber v. multiple use v. wilderness vulnerabilities
50:09
Lesson 1: Worldview shifts can happen quickly
50:32
Lesson 2: Climate change becomes real locally
51:20 Lesson 3:
Opportunities to act are crucial (pheromone packs)
53:12 Lesson 4:
Old-growth & wilderness forests will be hardest hit
54:53 Acknowledgements: our Colorado hosts
56:19
Requiem to Engelmann Spruce at
Wolf Creek Pass, CO
Music = ending of
Wagner's "
Tristan und Isolde", performed by:
CREDIT: "
Vienna Symphony,
Yuri Ahronovitch,
Budapest Symphony & Gyorgy Le-Tristan und Isolde: Vorspiel und Isoldes Liebestod,
Prelude and", sound recording administered by
The Orchard Music"
"Plant
Species Climate Profile Predictions" (US Forest Service):
http://forest.moscowfsl.wsu.edu/climate/species/
Links to all video episodes of "Climate, Trees, and
Legacy":
http://thegreatstory.org/climate-trees-legacy
.html
Learn more about "assisted migration" by and for foresters:
http://www.torreyaguardians.org/assisted-migration.html#forestry
Durango Herald feature story on
Connie's presentation:
http://www.durangoherald.com/article/20140625/NEWS06/140629715/No-trees-to-hug?-
Connie Barlow's publications:
http://thegreatstory.org/CB-writings.html
- published: 05 Jul 2014
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