Climate Change Risk Assessment
In autumn 2024, the CCF contracted Frontera Forest Solutions to complete a climate change risk assessment for the CCF tenure focused on wildfire and drought risk, the biggest direct climate change risks.
Climate Change Risk AssessmentThe risk assessment answers the following questions:
- How will climate change impact the CCF? What are the risks of these impacts?
- Where on the landscape are these risks likely to occur?
- What are the levels of risk across the landscape?
The framework for this was inspired by work completed by Erik Leslie, RPF, and the Harrop Proctor Community Co-op’s “Climate Change Adaptation Project”. The CCF climate change risk assessment is intended to provide the analysis needed to develop a strategic operations and silvicultural framework addressing those risks with the goal of creating a diverse, resilient forest for the future.
The operations plan will be developed through the summer/fall of 2025. The CCF will bring the draft plan to the public for input in late summer.