Our spring '23 Green Living Seminar focusing on the theme "Capitalism and the Environment" continues TODAY, March 8th with a presentation by Christina McKeown titled, Economics of Climate-Smart Forestry. This event will offer a high-level look at the relationships between climate change, forests, climate-smart forestry, and their connections to the economy. It will take place fully in-person at 5:30 p.m. in the MCLA Feigenbaum Center for Science and Innovation, Room 121. This event is free and open to the public.

Christina McKeown is the Climate Forester for Massachusetts’ Department of Conservation and Recreation. In this role she supports a coordinated response to the effects of climate change on forests and forest management, particularly regarding DCR’s public lands. She also provides technical assistance to landowners, land trusts, municipalities, and forestry practitioners across the state.

She has earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Film Media and Communication from the University of Rhode Island, a Bachelor of Science degree in Forest Ecology and Conservation from UMass Amherst and a Master’s degree in Natural Resources with a concentration in Forests and Climate Change from Oregon State University. Where her interdisciplinary backgrounds intersect, her main goals are to help communicate the urgency of climate change and to support actions that can help our forests both mitigate and adapt to change.


Presented to the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts Green Living Seminar Series, February 8, 2023.

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