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Information and Tools for Land Managers
The Climate Change Resource Center (CCRC) is a reference Web site for resource managers and decisionmakers who need information and tools to address climate change in planning and project implementation on lands in the West. Changing climates have already catalyzed changes in environments throughout the West, and future effects are expected to be greater. Although future scenarios are daunting, managers can do much to promote adaptation to climate change and encourage reduction of human effects on climate.
The CCRC addresses the manager’s question “What can I do about climate change?” by providing information about basic climate sciences and compiling knowledge resources and support for adaptation and mitigation strategies. The site offers educational information, including basic science modules that explain climate and climate impacts, decision-support models, maps, simulations, case studies, and toolkits. The site is a joint project of the three western Forest Service Research Stations Pacific Northwest Research Station (PNW), Pacific Southwest Research Station (PSW), Rocky Mountain Research Station (RMRS), and the Western Wildland Environmental Threat Assessment Center.
What's new?
- State of Wyoming Climate Change Workshop: Biologists, scientists, policy-makers, sportsmen and members of the media came together in Cheyenne on Monday, June 16 to learn more about climate change and how it could potentially affect Wyoming's resources. Slides and contact information are posted.
- Analyses of the Effects of Global Change on Human Health and Welfare and Human Systems
(SAP 4.6) This Synthesis and Assessment Product 4.6 (SAP 4.6) focuses on impacts of global climate change, especially impacts on three broad dimensions of the human condition: human health, human settlements, and human welfare. - MTNCLIM 2008 Mountain Climate Research Conference. Talks, Posters, and Webcasts from the conference held June 9-12 in Silverton, CO
- Bull Trout and Climate Change. Mulitmedia production of a 2008 symposium at the Western Division Meeting of the American Fisheries Society. Sponsored by the US Forest Service-Rocky Mountain Research Station, US Fish and Wildlife Service, and the US Geological Survey.
- Preliminary review of adaptation options for climate-sensitive ecosystems and resources: Final Report, Synthesis and Assessment Product 4.4. Chapter 3 addresses National Forests
- Climate Change and Water: In Brief. A new publication from the Forest Service National Headquarters
- Woody Biomass Utilization. New USFS site on using woody biomass for energy and other uses
- Pacific Southwest Region (R-5) Climate Change site
- Climate Change, Water, and Kids. Comments by Abigail R. Kimbell, Forest Service Chief
- USFS Climate Research Strategy
- Sustainable Forest Resource Management
- Sustainable Operations
- Carbon Sequestration. National "Ecosystem Services" site