Adapting Forestry to Climate Change in British Columbia's Central Interior

ABSTRACT

The Bulkley Valley Research Centre undertook a program of applied research to assist local communities in adapting to climate change, funded mainly through British Columbia’s Forest Science and Future Forests initiatives. These projects included assessing historic climatic variability; downscaled local climate projections; monitoring the impacts and responses of forest ecosystems and wildlife to large scale disturbances; adapting forest simulation models such as TACA, SORTIE-ND and SELES to project tree regeneration, forest growth and landscape configuration under a range of climate change scenarios; and engaging forest stakeholders in a multi-scale vulnerability and livelihood assessment.