Northern Forest Alliance 2008 Climate Change Conference

The Northern Forest Alliance (NFA)

The NFA works to conserve Wildlands in the Northern Forest (upstate New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine) to help protect the forest's
ecological integrity, its recreational opportunities and its timber production, to encourage well managed private forests to support the forest-based
economy, including high-value timber products, recreation tourism, and the jobs these industries support, and to build strong, diverse, local
economies that support vibrant communities throughout the Northern Forest.

Conference

The 2008 Northern Forest Climate Change Conference is designed to engage students from colleges and universities with a "window of interest" in the
Northern Forest to create "on campus" action steps that will help address the challenges of climate change.  On the first day of the conference, student
attendees will explore, with the help of expert speakers, emerging climate change issues and the many "on the ground" strategies/actions/movements
that are making a difference around the country.  On the second day, student attendees will work in plenary sessions and breakout groups to outline
potential "climate change action steps" related to the woods that they determine could be effectively implemented on campus.  Toward the end of the
second day, the student attendees will, as a group, adopt the “Top Ten Practical Action Steps to Address Climate Change in the Northern Forest for
2009.”  Engaged faculty and students will return to their universities and present the "Top Ten" to their institution's Board of Trustees or governing
body for implementation consideration.