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Adaptation Tools

The Northern Forests Climate Hub provides practical options to help land managers adapt forests and ecosystems to changing conditions.

Climate change creates serious risks for ecosystems and the benefits that they provide to people. Land managers face the challenge of determining what actions to take in response to these risks. The Northern Forests Climate Hub and regional partners have collaborated to provide a growing set of adaptation resources to help land managers, and landowners devise adaptation actions to meet their objectives. Additional insight can be gained by learning from adaptation demonstration projects, which are real-world examples of how land managers have considered ecosystem vulnerabilities and adaptation strategies in choosing actions to meet their management objectives.


Browse Climate Change Adaptation Tools

  • Adaptation Workbook

    This process enables land managers to identify climate risks and create adaptation plans. There are several versions of the Adaptation Workbook available in English and Spanish and in a variety of formats. Find the right version for your planning.

    Find the Adaptation Workbook

  • Adaptation Strategies

    Topical menus of actions help managers move from broad ideas to specific tactics. Browse the collection of curated lists of potential adaptation strategies and approaches applicable to natural resources planning, conservation, and stewardship.

    Select Strategies To Support Climate-Informed Planning

  • NRCS Practices and Adaptation

    NRCS programs and practices can help landowners achieve their goals while supporting climate adaptation. Find climate adaptation options for agriculture, grazing and livestock, forests, managing carbon, wetlands, and wildlife habitat management.

    Download Brochures Here

  • Adaptation Implementation

    Users can also learn from adaptation demonstration projects, which are real-world examples that illustrate how land managers have considered climate change vulnerabilities and developed adaptation actions to meet their management objectives.

    Demonstration Project Library Hosted by the Northern Institute of Applied Climate Science (external link)

  • Adaptive Silviculture for Climate Change

    The Adaptive Silviculture for Climate Change (ASCC) project is a collaborative effort to establish a series of experimental silvicultural trials across a network of different forest ecosystem types throughout the United States and Canada.

    Browse the network of ASCC sites (external link)

  • Trainings and Support

    The Northern Forests Climate Hub and partners host Adaptation Planning and Practices trainings for ecosystem planning. These hands-on trainings help natural resource managers incorporate climate change considerations into their own real-world forest management projects.


Acknowledgements

The Northern Institute for Applied Climate Science and regional partners have led the development of adaptation resources including the collection of adaptation strategies and approaches, and the Adaptation Workbook process (published in Forest Adaptation Resources: Climate Change Tools and Approaches for Land Managers). The Northern Institute of Applied Climate Science (NIACS) a collaborative, multi-institutional partnership led and supported by the USDA Forest Service.