Assisted Migration: A Solution to Combat Climate Change or Gardening? with Charles Smith [via Zoom]
Date/Time
Thursday, January 9, 2025
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
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Charles Smith continues his annual presentation tradition to discuss Assisted Migration. Moving species to new areas to offset climate change is being much discussed and promoted. Who decides what species to move, to where and why? Join this discussion of how species are chosen to be moved, whether moving them promotes healthy ecosystems, and if the outcomes best serve natural or human needs.
View the Assisted Migration presentation slides in PDF format.
Read more about Assisted Migration at Wikipedia.
Type of Assisted Migration – Source: University of Vermont
Charles Smith is an ecologist and native of Arlington, VA with 33 years of experience in natural resource inventory, planning, management and monitoring. He has worked in public lands management overseeing natural resource inventory, planning and management for systems as large as 23,000 acres including forested ecosystems, grasslands, wetlands creation and restoration and riparian corridor and riverine system restoration.
Charles retired from Fairfax County Government where he worked for over 26 years managing natural resources and programs and most recently in the Stormwater Planning Division focusing on stream and riparian corridor restoration. Charles is a US Army veteran, board member of the Virginia Native Plant Society, and a certified Ecological Restoration Practitioner with the Society for Ecological Restoration.
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