Recommended Reading
Responding to climate change in national forests: a guidebook for developing adaptation options
This guidebook describes science-based principles, processes, and tools for assisting with developing adaptation options for national forest lands.
Adapting to climate change at Olympic National Forest and Olympic National Park
This report highlights a climate change adaptation case study at Olympic National Forest in partnership with Olympic National Park. The case study process involved science-based sensitivity assessments, review of management activities and constraints, and adaptation workshops in four focus areas (hydrology and roads, fish, vegetation, and wildlife).
Climate Change and Forest Biodiversity: A Vulnerability Assessment and Action Plan for National Forests in Western Washington
The goals of this analysis were to conduct a climate change vulnerability assessment of forest tree species, assess the vulnerability of non-forested habitats to climate change, and propose practical management actions that will work under a variety of future climate scenarios and can be implemented by the national forests in western Washington in cooperation with other land managers.
Scanning the Conservation Horizon: A guide to climate change vulnerability assessment
Scanning the Conservation Horizon is intended to provide resource managers and conservationists with guidance for understanding the basic concepts behind vulnerability assessments, and for identifying which approaches may best serve their specific needs.
U.S. National Forests Adapt To Climate Change Through Science-Management Partnerships
This paper describes a scientist-manager focus group process used to understand climate change and its anticipated effects, and to develop specific options for adapting to a warmer climate.
Ecosystem vulnerability assessment and synthesis
A report from the Climate Change Response Framework Project in northern Wisconsin.