Fisheries: Responding to Drought and Water Challenges

In January 2017, the U.S. Forest Service’s Office of Sustainability and Climate hosted a webinar that explored the impact of a changing climate— particularly warming temperatures, flooding, and drought events— on coldwater fisheries. Scientists highlighted the impacts of such extremes on various fish species, and shared conservation tools and models. Resource managers, in turn, described how they applied these products on the ground as adaptation case studies to enhance coldwater fish populations in both the western and eastern United States. This summary provides a synopsis of the various tools, models, and case studies presented during the webinar.