Presentation from Dominick A. DellaSala, chief scientist and president of the Geos Institute in Ashland, Oregon, and president of the North American section of the Society for Conservation Biology.

1. THE FORGOTTEN RAINFORESTS:
TEMPERATE AND BOREAL RAINFORESTS
OF THE WORLD
DOMINICK A. DELLASALA, PH.D.
IslandPress.org/dellasala J. Schoen
www.geosinstitute.org

2. TROPICAL RAINFORESTS OF THE WORLD
Corbis
Equator
Corbis
National Geographic
National Geographic

4. ANNUAL PRECIP AVERAGE ANNUAL TEMP WET SUMMERS
8 feet
tropical
temperate
boreal
NCAR

5. INTRODUCING TEMPERATE AND BOREAL RAINFORESTS

6. HOW MUCH AND WHERE?
35
35
30
25
20 17
16
15 11 11
8
10
3
5 0.5
0

7. TEMPERATE AND BOREAL RAINFOREST PLANETARY TOUR
Tim Greyhavens Tim Greyhavens
Craig Pettitt
John Schoen
Elysa Resort

8. RAINFORESTS OF HOME:
ALASKA TO REDWOODS
J. Schoen
Tim Greyhavens Tim Greyhavens

9. TONGASS OLD GROWTH CHAMPIONS
John Schoen
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10. John Schoen

11. J. Schoen

12. Roads Built in the Tongass National Forest Region
12,000
10,260
10,000
8,181
8,000
Kilometers
6,000
4,630
4,000
2,258
2,000
818
0
pre1960 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s
Time Step
 Another 400,000 acres could be
logged this century
 Roadless areas are vital

13. CANADA’S GREAT BEAR RAINFOREST
Tim Greyhavens
~ Globally unique relatively intact system
¼ of word’s temperate rainforests

14. SALMON DRIVEN RAINFOREST
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Ian McAllister

15. Tim Greyhavens

16. CONSERVATION SUCCESS STORY?
GREENPEACE
 $120 million campaign boosted protection levels up to ~35%
 Scientists recommend 40-70% protection

17. OLYMPICS TO REDWOODS:
“LAND OF THE GIANTS”
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18. RAINFORESTS HELP STABILIZE GLOBAL CLIMATE

19. TOP TEN CARBON-STORING NATIONAL FORESTS
The Wilderness Society

20. WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS!
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21. CO2 Equivalent Stored by
Top 10 National Forests
CO2 Equivalent in One Year’s
9.8 U.S. Fossil Fuel Use
billion 5.8
billion
metric
tons metric
tons ~2 x total annual emissions
The Wilderness Society

23. DEFORESTATION = GLOBAL WARMING
POLLUTION
30 26
25
19
20 17
15 13 13
10 8
5 3
0

24. INTERIOR WET BELT
RAINFORESTS
CraigPettitt
Corbis
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Elysa Resort

25. LICHENS DRIVE RAINFOREST FOOD WEBS
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26. LICHEN-CARIBOU RAINFOREST IN TROUBLE
 Only ~4.5% protected
 Caribou in peril: 2450 in 1997, 1900 in 2001

27. ANCIENT VALDIVIA RAINFOREST
Daniel Gomez

28. MONKEY-PUZZLE “LIVING FOSSIL”
Paul Alaback
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29. Corbis
VALDIVIA’S WILDLIFE
 >60% amphibians/reptiles are found
nowhere else
 30% of birds endemic
 20% of freshwater fish endemic
Rufous-legged owl
Darwin’s toad
 Old-growth dependent species
Monito del monte
Magellanic woodpecker

30.  trees > 3,000 years!
Tierra Chilean - Mitsubishi
Corbis
 40% of rainforests gone!
Aaron Sanger

31. RUSSIAN FAR EAST & INLAND SOUTHERN SIBERIA
P. Krestov
~450 ~29 Nearly gone
Victor Yudin Corbis

32. JAPAN’S RAINFOREST ARE UNIQUE: FEW REMAIN
Corbis
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33. AUSTRALASIA – SIZE MATTERS!
Corbis

34. SOUTH AFRICA HAS
RAINFOREST PRIMATES
AND “ELEPHANTS”
Corbis

35. FORGOTTEN RAINFOREST
THREAT LEVELS*
Redwoods, Europe, Japan & Korea
PNW, Inland BC, Russia, Chile, E. Canada
Great Bear, South Africa, Australia
New Zealand
* Logging, roads, climate change, dams, mining,
grazing, exotics, international treaties

36. THE FORGOTTEN RAINFORESTS VISION
 Rainforests are greater than sum-of-their parts
 Old forests are pivotal to climate stability globally –
climate summit, international year of forests
 President Obama – protecting old forests = climate
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 We must not let these forests become the forgotten
rainforests
Tim Greyhavens
Craig Pettitt
www.geosinstitute.org