Second College Grant - Transition
Treatment: actively facilitate change to encourage adaptive responses
Management Goals
- Increased dominance of species adapted to future climate change currently on site plus increased proportion of planted species (greater than 20% composition) not currently on site expected to be better-adapted to future climate change
- Increased amount of biological legacies and dead wood
- Increased diversity of tree functional traits present in forest community
Strategies & approaches
Photo Credit: Tony D’Amato, University of Vermont.
- Variable density thin / irregular shelterwood (20% in gaps of 0.25-1 acre, 20% in patch reserves 0.1-0.25 acre in size, 70-80 ft2/acre matrix)
- Increase future-adapted, off-site species (bitternut hickory, black birch, American chestnut) and on-site species present in lower abundance, but expected to gain future suitable habitat (northern red oak, eastern white pine, red spruce, eastern hemlock, bigtooth aspen, black cherry)
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Site Leads & Partners
Tony D’Amato (University of Vermont and Northeast Climate Adaptation Science Center) is the site lead for the Second College Grant ASCC project. Key partners include Kevin Evans, Matt Ayres, Rich Howarth, and Caitlin Hicks Pries (Dartmouth College); Chris Woodall, Dave King, Isabel Munck, Brian Palik, and Nate Siegert (USDA Forest Service Northern Research Station); Carol Adair, Peter Clark, Alissa Freeman, Gary Hawley, Caitlin Henry, Allan Strong, Lucas Harris, and Jess Wikle (University of Vermont); Shawn Fraver (University of Maine); Becca Rowe, Jeff Garnas, Alix Contosta, and Alexej Sirén (University of New Hampshire); Toni Lyn Morelli and Jahiya Clark (University of Massachusetts); Eben Broadbent (University of Florida); Dan Evans (Plymouth State University); Mark Greene (Case Western University); Ryan Stephens (Eastern Tennessee State University), Dave Lutz (Colby-Sawyer College).
Current graduate students involved in the project include Alissa Freeman (UVM), Caitlin Henry (UVM), and Jahiya Clark (UMass). Past graduate students on the project are: Ben Borgmann-Winter (UNH), Peter Clark (UVM), Fiona Jevon (Dartmouth), Ryan Stephens (UNH), Jen Santoro (UVM), Paulina Murray (UVM), Liz Studer (Dartmouth), Jess Wikle (UVM), Christopher Ziadeh (UNH).
Tony D'Amato
Second College Grant ASCC Site Lead
Professor,
Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources
University of Vermont
204E Aiken Center
Burlington, VT 05405
Phone: 802-656-8030
awdamato@uvm.edu
Kevin Evans
Second College Grant ASCC Site Manager
Director of Woodlands,
Dartmouth College
P.O. Box 213
Milan, NH 03588
Phone: 603-449-2049
Kevin.S.Evans@dartmouth.edu