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Author(s):
Marie Oliver
Year Published:

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Topic(s):
Fire & Climate
Management Approaches
Adaptive Management

NRFSN number: 12449
FRAMES RCS number: 15589
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National forest managers are charged with tackling the effects of climate change on the natural resources under their care. The Forest Service National Roadmap for Responding to Climate Change and the Climate Change Performance Scorecard require managers to make significant progress in addressing climate change by 2015. To help land managers meet this challenge, Forest Service scientists conducted three case studies on national forests and adjacent national parks and documented a wide range of scientific issues and solutions. They summarized the scientific foundation for climate change adaptation and made the information accessible to land managers by creating a climate change adaptation guidebook and web portal. Case study teams discovered that collaboration among scientists and land managers is crucial to adaptation planning, as are management plans targeted to the particular ecosystem conditions and management priorities of each region. Many current management practices are consistent with climate change adaptation goals. Because timely implementation is critical, strategies are in development at the national level to speed the implementation of science-based climate change adaptation processes in national forests throughout the country. Contributing scientists are David L. Peterson and Michael J. Furniss.

Citation

Oliver, Marie. 2012. Adaptation: planning for climate change and its effects on federal lands. Science Findings 148. Portland, OR: USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station. 6 p.

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