Chapter 4 HISTORICAL ECOLOGY, CLIMATE CHANGE, AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT: CAN THE PAST STILL INFORM THE FUTURE? Hugh D. Safford, 1,2 Gregory D. Hayward, 3,4 Nicole E. Heller, 5 and John A. Wiens 6,7 1 USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Region, Vallejo, CA, USA 2 University of California, Davis, CA, USA 3 USDA Forest Service, Alaska Region, Anchorage, AK, USA 4 USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Region, Lakewood, CO, USA 5 Climate Central, Palo Alto, CA, USA 6 PRBO Conservation Science, Petaluma, CA, USA 7 University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA, Australia Historical Environmental Variation in Conservation and Natural Resource Management, First Edition. Edited by John A. Wiens, Gregory D. Hayward, Hugh D. Safford, and Catherine M. Giffen. © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Published 2012 by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 46