Climate Change and Alaska's Forests: People, Problems, and Policies

• Main Authors: Burnside, Roger, Juday, Glenn, Berman, Matthew
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: English
• Published: Center for Global Change and Arctic System Research, University of Alaska Fairbanks 1999
• Subjects: human effects; climate change; forest cover; short-term regional impact; long-term regional impact; Bering Sea; Pollard; Alaska
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11122/12276; http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.557.4842&rep=rep1&type=pdf

Part of "Assessing the Consequences of Climate Change for Alaska and the Bering Sea Region" Forests cover over one-third of the total land area of Alaska, and forests border the communities in which about 90 percent of Alaska’s residents make their homes. Climate change has begun to affect...