Next-Level Forestry: Scaling Collective Capacity in the Face of Climate Change

Thursday, September 19, 2024

1:30 PM – 3:00 PM MST

Location: Embassy Suites, Canyon Maple C

Speaker(s)

Kathleen Rutherford Riggs, MPA, MODL (she/her/hers)

Senior Advisor/Consultant
KCG Consulting
Shelton, Washington, United States

Moderator(s)

Erin Berryman, n/a (she/her/hers)

Analyst
USDA Forest Service, United States

An opportunity to be a part of the discussion around the development of the new Forest Innovation Platform and explore opportunities to improve alignment between the ecosystem of data and decision-support tools designed to foster resilient forests.

Learning Objectives:

Understand the challenges of working across government entities, including Federal, State, Local and Tribal, nonprofit, academic, and data and technology sectors to develop a community of practice around climate-informed management, and ways to overcome these challenges.
Learn how a user-driven data and tools platform could help address specific forest management questions.