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and lead to erosion on steep slopes

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and flooding in low lying areas.

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decide how to ready
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for some more specific
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impacts, users give
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from going through those other questions.

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that contribute to assistant's
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was a negative thing.

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the low end of the scale
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says that the site is part
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users give themselves an overall
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if the user final vulnerability rating,

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also that your answers
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that gives you a more nuanced sense

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of that vulnerability result.

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in the assessment inform which
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are favoring pests and pathogens,

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you'll be able to access some
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including potential adaptation approaches,

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relevant resources, ideas
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and importantly, some
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from other managers in new England

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who are working on projects

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where they're addressing specific
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including resistance, resilience,
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you'll access another interactive page

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with an overall conceptual
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along with a table of
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based on different site conditions.

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or prescriptions but rather
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to consider when they're
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within their management context.

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all of this information
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to inform management plans
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further, I encourage
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and try it out yourself.

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to familiarize yourself with the tool.

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- Thanks, Maddy.

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and there is a new
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that you can watch to get a
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you just received from
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January 19th at 4:00 pm
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on how to use the tool and
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the last resource there is
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of many different resources there,

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both for landowners and resource
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to help us all think about Oak
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I think that is all I have for that slide.

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as we develop this tool and
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of applied climate science, my employer,

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the Forest Stewards Guild.

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my email is on the screen
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That is all we have for our presentation.

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- Yeah, this is Jerry in New York.

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I'm interested in,

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have you a mass scenario-based results

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from this survey or this form yet?

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That would be really interesting to see.

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window. The result would
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What, what do you, how do you
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- Thanks for the question, Jerry.

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So, to date there's 160 plus
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However, most of those are
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This year, we've done a lot
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that was in beta form at that point.

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as we thought about how
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in terms of that are spatially
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with this as well. So it's
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but once we get the tool out there

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and we get people using
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we're hoping to collect
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to really show across the landscape

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what Oak vulnerability
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I just wanted to add, I work
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are all really concerned
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with any of them, get this kind of a tool

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so that we have the same
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- I'll defer to Maddy on that question.

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Good thinking, Jerry. And I think that,

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ideally this sets us up
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It's been really fantastic
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we're really just getting it
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but hopefully through some
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we can look at how this could be adapted

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but it's do you folks envision
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to any projects that are
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the tool can easily be
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when you're out in the field.

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in July and it sounded
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to use the tool live in the
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as they're working together
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they have for the property
and in what issues might arise

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in trying to reach those objectives,

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working through the tool together

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can be a great way to build
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and collaboration around the stewardship

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of the specific property.

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Not hearing any other questions.

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is the report that it
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to course management plan.

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the forest management plan
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foresters, a great resource
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but the PDF report is just
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to really think about
Oak resiliency itself.

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Oh there's one, will we hear
an update next year's FEMC

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after more data have come in? I hope so.

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It'd be great to be back here
to share all the great success

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that we've had given the tool out there

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in the upcoming year.

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Amanda, thanks for the question.

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As we kind of wind down here,
as we roll this tool out

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and try to get more people
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we really wanna hear from you
and how it's working for you.

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And we really just want to
get a lot of data collected

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so we can get this big
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in terms of Oak resiliency

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and how vulnerable they are
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that they have impacting them.

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So thank you all for being
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the opportunity to present this to you.

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to clear out that cache

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of all the test runs
at this point and yeah.

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See some more real data points in there

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and hear from folks on
how they like the tools.

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So, thanks everybody for tuning in today.