Welcome to the USDA Northwest Climate Hub! This guide will help you navigate our website and find the information you want.
- Jump to section on "Focusing on the Northwest"
- Jump to section on "How to search for Northwest-specific content"
How to navigate
When you enter our homepage, you can see three horizontal bars at the very top. The top white bar provides national content. The blue bar directs you to each of the 10 Regional Hubs and our International Hub as well as topics, climate impacts, and action & resources from ‘ALL’ 11 Climate Hubs. The grey bar directs you to information specific to the Northwest Climate Hub.
Focusing on the Northwest
Choosing options in the gray tool bar leads you to information relevant to the Northwest Climate Hub region (Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington). If you navigate away from the Northwest Hub (gray bar will not lead with ‘Northwest Climate Hub’) and want to get back, you can click on 
in the blue bar and then click on Northwest in the dropdown menu.
About
Provides a brief introduction to the Northwest Climate Hub, information about the staff, and how to contact us.
Topics
Has a collection of articles that summarizes information on climate change in the Northwest. Articles provide background information for the topics listed below.
Animals
Bioenergy
Carbon and Greenhouse Gases
Climate Science
Crops
Economics
Education (K-12)
Forests & Woodlands
Grazing Lands
Rural & Urban Communities
Soil
Water
Climate impacts
Provides information on climate change impacts in the Northwest Climate Hub region. There are three options: 1) Seasonal Shifts includes articles focused on wild huckleberries and crops; 2) Disturbance includes articles on wildfire, wildfire smoke, and feral swine, and 3) Extreme Weather includes information about drought.
Seasonal Shifts
Disturbances
Extreme Weather
Actions & Resources
Provides information on management actions that can be taken, and the resources needed to inform those actions. Includes vulnerability assessments, adaptation plans, demonstrations of management actions, and tools and resources to support decision making.
Assessments
Management Actions
Demonstrations
Adaptation in Action
Research & Data
Emergency Resources
Tools
Newsletter
Is where you will find our monthly newsletter.
Landing page
The Northwest Climate Hub landing page has several Featured Articles to explore. At the top of the page is the main featured article plus other feature articles in three panels. These articles change about every two weeks, highlighting relevant information. Next is a list of Upcoming Events hosted by the Northwest Climate Hub. Next, Recent Additions show the most recently published content. You can view all recent articles by clicking on “View All” at the bottom of this section.
The links at the very bottom of the page connect to national level information.
How to search the website for Northwest-specific content
To search for a specific subject or topic on the Climate Hubs website, click on the white search bar within the blue bar at the top of the webpage (see orange arrow).
From there, write your search terms. For example, a user might be looking for information on cover crops. That user would type “cover crops” into the search bar, then click the white magnifying glass to the right of the search bar.
After you click search, the website will direct you to a collection of webpages related to your search. The search will not be Northwest specific, so if you’re looking for content from the Northwest Climate Hub, look for the tagline below the hyperlink that reads “Content produced by the Northwest Climate Hub” (see orange arrow).
