FCCP Attends Northeast-Midwest State Foresters Alliance Forest Resource Planning Committee Meeting in Smithville, New Jersey

Chad Papa, FCCP Research Assistant, and Stephen Handler, NIACS Climate Change Specialist, discussed forest certification and their efforts to promote climate-smart forestry through education and research.

A group of people posing together on a wooden dock with a lake and forest in the background.
Chad Papa, FCCP Research Assistant, (second from left) attends the Northeast-Midwest State Foresters Alliance Resource Planning Committee meeting in Smithville, New Jersey. Photo by U.S. Forest Service.

Chad Papa, FCCP, and Stephen Handler, NIACS, attended the Northeast-Midwest State Foresters Alliance Forest Resource Planning Committee Meeting in Smithville, NJ. They presented on forest certification and their work to inform climate-smart forestry through education and research.

Papa’s presentation included an overview of the Forest Carbon and Climate Program (FCCP), as well as a discussion of recent research conducted as part of the State-Level Forest and Forest Product Carbon Modeling project in partnership with American Forests, the Northern Institute of Applied Climate Science (NIACS), and the Canadian Forest Service Carbon Accounting Team.

The conference concluded with a full day of visits to sites in the Wharton State Forest and the Bass River State Forest focusing on climate resilience management, habitat creation, and forest restoration initiatives.

Learn more about Forest Carbon Data and Modeling Integration and Evaluation Project here.

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