ABSTRACT: New York forests are a critical component
to reaching NYs climate goals through their sequestration and storage
of carbon. To achieve these goals the CLCPA Agriculture and Forestry
panel recommended five main strategies 1) keep forests as forests,
avoided conversion 2) improved forest management 3)
afforestation/reforestation 4) urban forestry 5) bioeconomy. While many
of the mechanisms for these systematic changes are still underway there
are currently opportunities available for landowners to help combat
climate change on their properties.
BIO:
Bryan Ellis (Forest Climate Section Leader, NYS Department of Environmental Conservation, Division of Lands and Forests)
Bryan Ellis is the section leader for the
newly created Forest Climate Section within the NYS DEC Division of
Lands and Forests and has been working in DEC for over 10 years in a
variety of roles. Before leading the Forest Climate Section, he was a
DEC field forester in the Catskill region working with private
landowners and managing forest preserve lands, as well as spending time
as the statewide Hemlock Woolly Adelgid coordinator. He received his MS
from SUNY ESF in Forest Resource Management.