{"id":1472,"date":"2015-12-21T09:48:57","date_gmt":"2015-12-21T16:48:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/aitkenlab\/?p=1472"},"modified":"2015-12-18T11:53:08","modified_gmt":"2015-12-18T18:53:08","slug":"sally-aitken-tongli-wang-on-the-future-of-bcs-forests-in-bc-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/aitkenlab\/2015\/12\/21\/sally-aitken-tongli-wang-on-the-future-of-bcs-forests-in-bc-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Sally Aitken &#038; Tongli Wang on the future of BC&#8217;s forests in BC Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>It soon became evident, though, that climate change is outpacing this gradual approach, and in 2012 the ministry launched another program, dubbed \u201cclimate-based seed transfer,\u201d which involves a total overhaul of the province\u2019s approach to reforestation. Rather than determine where a seedling can be planted according to lines of latitude and longitude on a map, decisions will be made according to anticipated climates of the future. The climate-based approach to reforestation will be implemented starting in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>As B.C. moves into uncharted territory in forest management, the whole province can be seen as a giant petri dish, with the provincial government directing the experiment. And we\u2019ve only got one chance to get it right. Unlike a high-school genetics experiment, where students might observe successive generations of flowering plants over the course of a year, trees take anywhere from 50 to 100 years to reach maturity. If the trees we plant today prove unsuited to the climate of tomorrow, there\u2019s no do-over.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bcbusiness.ca\/natural-resources\/can-bcs-forests-cope-with-climate-change\">David Jordan in BC Business July 2015<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It soon became evident, though, that climate change is outpacing this gradual approach, and in 2012 the ministry launched another program, dubbed \u201cclimate-based seed transfer,\u201d which involves a total overhaul of the province\u2019s approach to reforestation. Rather than determine where a seedling can be planted according to lines of latitude and longitude on a map, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[747527,4899],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-adaptree","category-outreach","post_format-post-format-aside"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/aitkenlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/aitkenlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/aitkenlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/aitkenlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/aitkenlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1472"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/aitkenlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1473,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/aitkenlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1472\/revisions\/1473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/aitkenlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/aitkenlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/aitkenlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}