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CC Vulnerability and Adaptation Strategies for Natural Communities
Accelerating Adaptation of Natural Resource Management
Factors Influencing Individual Management Preferences
Modelling Risk
M-K Management Area Conservation and CC Assessment
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December 2012
Y2Y Friend,

Welcome to the December edition of our Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative (Y2Y) Climate Adaptation Newsletter, which includes upcoming events, funding prospects, and articles of interest for those who care about the effects of climate change in the Yellowstone to Yukon landscape.  

Articles cover a range of topics: assessing climate risks to public lands in the West, Y2Y's efforts to protect one of Canada's great success stories - the Muskwa-Kechika Management Area, modeling risk adaptation and mitigation strategies, and a National Geographic blog highlighting indigenous populations' use of traditional knowledge to inform climate adaptation.  

This year brought record breaking weather events in the US and Canada, and we are reminded that planning for and adapting to climate change is more important than ever. We earnestly hope this newsletter will inspire you to support efforts to adapt to climate change in the Yellowstone to Yukon landscape. Please send us any news you have to offer for our next newsletter in February 2013.

Happy holidays and a joyous New Year,
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Gary Tabor, Senior Advisor on Climate Change Adaptation
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Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) expects to release another Request for Proposals to the Climate Adaptation Fund in Spring 2013.

 

Over the past two years, the WCS Climate Adaptation Fund has provided up to $3 million in competitive grant funding to non-profit conservation organizations for applied, on-the-ground projects focused on implementing priority conservation actions for climate adaptation at a landscape scale.  

 

With funding provided by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and managed by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), the program seeks to support actions that anticipate and respond to potential climate change impacts and maximize long-term conservation goals.

 

To achieve these ends, the program prioritizes projects that manage for dynamic ecological processes, landscape functionality, and species assemblages, rather than those aimed at maintaining historic conditions or individual species.    

 

Contact: Darren Long,  Kathryn Dunning
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Article Abstract: Ecology and Society 17(4): 20.  

Climate Change and Western Public Lands: A Survey of US Federal Land Managers on the Status of Adaptation Efforts.
Archie, K. M., L. Dilling, J. B. Milford, and F. C. Pampel. 2012.

 

ABSTRACT. Climate change and its associated consequences pose an increasing risk to public lands in the western United States. High-level mandates currently require federal agencies to begin planning for adaptation, but the extent to which these mandates have resulted in policies being implemented that affect on the ground practices is unclear. To examine the status of adaptation efforts, we conducted an original survey and semistructured interviews with land managers from the four major federal land management agencies in the U.S. states of Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming. The survey was designed to examine current planning for adaptation on public lands and how it differs from prior planning, the major challenges facing land managers in this region, the major barriers preventing managers from planning for adaptation, and the major hurdles associated with implementing adaptation plans. Reasons for the differences and implications for future research and policy are discussed.       

 

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Article Abstract: Report to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Nature Serve, Arlington, VA.

Climate Change Vulnerability and Adaptation Strategies for Natural Communities: Piloting methods in the Mojave and Sonoran Deserts
 

Comer, P. J., B. Young, K. Schulz, G. Kittel, B. Unnasch, D. Braun, G. Hammerson, L. Smart, H. Hamilton, S. Auer, R. Smyth, and J. Hak. 2012.

  

SUMMARY: Managers need to understand where and when the resources they manage might be vulnerable to climate change. They also need a better understanding of the factors that contribute to that vulnerability.  

 

NatureServe worked with a number of federal, state, and NGO partners in the United States and Mexico to conduct a climate change vulnerability assessment of major natural community types found within the Mojave and Sonoran Deserts.  

 

This effort piloted a new Habitat Climate Change Vulnerability Index (HCCVI) approach being developed by NatureServe, as a companion to an existing index for species. The project utilized existing data, much of which had been recently developed through the Bureau of Land Management's rapid ecoregional assessments, or by ongoing research efforts with FWS, NPS, and USGS.  

 

Once vulnerability assessments were drafted, an expert workshop was held to review and revise the assessments, and then apply the findings to identify climate change adaptation strategies applicable across managed lands within each ecoregion.   

 

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Article Abstract: Conservation Biology. doi: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2012.01954.x 

Accelerating Adaptation of Natural Resource Management to Address Climate Change 

Cross, M. S., McCarthy, P. D., Garfin, G., Gori, D. and Enquist, C. A.F. (2012)

 

ABSTRACT:  Natural resource managers are seeking tools to help them address current and future effects of climate change. We present a model for collaborative planning aimed at identifying ways to adapt management actions to address the effects of climate change in landscapes that cross public and private jurisdictional boundaries. The Southwest Climate Change Initiative (SWCCI) piloted the Adaptation for Conservation Targets (ACT) planning approach at workshops in 4 southwestern U.S. landscapes. This planning approach successfully increased participants' self-reported capacity to address climate change by providing them with a better understanding of potential effects and guiding the identification of solutions. Continued  investment in adaptation of management plans and actions to address the effects of climate change in the southwestern United States and extension of the approaches used in this project to additional landscapes are needed if biological diversity and ecosystem services are to be maintained in a rapidly changing world.   

       

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Article Abstract: Wildlife Society Bulletin; DOI: 10.1002/wsb.156.

Factors Influencing Individual Management Preferences for Facilitating Adaptation to Climate Change Within the National Wildlife Refuge System  

D. R. Magness et al. 2012.    

 

ABSTRACT: National Wildlife Refuge System policies reference both historical condition and naturalness, but these concepts may not be valid management goals in a world with rapid climate change. Currently, within the refuge system, managers and biologists can individually decide whether management actions to maintain historical condition (retrospective) or actions to promote and enhance future condition (prospective) are appropriate. In February 2008, we surveyed 203 refuge system managers and biologists (via email) about climate change and management strategies to facilitate adaptation to climate change. Our goal was to explore factors that influence preference for retrospective or prospective strategies. We conclude that land management agencies need to provide the rationale for how climate change should be conceptualized in the short and long terms. Explicitly addressing conservation values may help to refine agency priorities in a rapidly changing world and to build the consensus necessary to strategically coordinate management across individual units in conservation reserves.
       

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Article Abstract: Climatic Change. DOI 10.1007/s10584-012-0534-1.    

Modelling Risk Adaptation and Mitigation Behavior Under Different Climate Change Scenarios
   

Roy Brouwer & Marije Schaafsma. 2012.       


The main objective of this study is to simulate household choice behavior under varying climate change scenarios using choice experiments. Economic welfare measures are derived for society's willingness to pay (WTP) to reduce climate change induced flood risks through private insurance and willingness to accept compensation (WTAC) for controlled flooding under varying future risk exposure levels. Material flood damage and loss of life are covered in the insurance policy experiment, while the WTAC experiment also captures the economic value of immaterial flood damage such as feelings of discomfort, fear and social disruption. The results show that WTP and WTAC are substantial, suggesting a more prominent role of external social damage costs in cost-benefit analysis of climate change and flood mitigation policies.

       

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Muskwa-Kechika Management Area Conservation and Climate Change Assessment  

Prepared by the Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative for the Muskwa-Kechika Management Area Advisory Board
April, 2012    

  

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Study Sets Out Path to Protect the Rocky Mountains' Wildest Area

(Canmore, AB) At a time when National and Provincial Parks increasingly are under threat, a new study released today by the Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative (Y2Y) sets out a path to protect one of Canada's great success stories - British Columbia's (BC) Muskwa-Kechika Management Area (M-K).   

 

Roughly the size of Ireland, the M-K was created in 1998 to implement the latest thinking in land use management: accommodating resource development while also protecting a large, intact and predominantly roadless wilderness.  

 

The study, commissioned by the Muskwa-Kechika Advisory Board and completed in collaboration with the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society-B.C. Chapter and Gregory Kehm Associates, is meant to advise the Muskwa-Kechika Advisory Board, which in turn may make recommendations to the B.C. government on proposed actions. Other land managers and levels of government, such as First Nations and communities, who may be developing land use plans, as well as resource and tourism businesses, may also find its conclusions relevant.        

           

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Report: NOAA/NIDIS/WGA Quarterly Climate Impacts & Outlook (October 2012) 

Extreme Drought Persists Across the Western States  

  Drought

In the Central US, summer 2012 ranks as the warmest on record for Wyoming and Colorado.

In the Southern Great Plains, 91% of Oklahoma was in extreme drought as of Sept. 1, up from 3% on June 1.

In the Western US, though drought conditions endured, the southwest monsoon brought some rain and relief to Arizona as well as parts of southern California, Nevada, Utah and Colorado.
       

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Report Abstract: Planned Adaptation to Climate Change, Issue 1: 127-171.    
 
A Bibliographic Review of the Climate Change Adaptation Literature   

James MacLellan. 2012       

 

This report attempts to develop a general, accessible doorway into climate change adaptation (CCA) literature which is indifferent to one's starting position and evolves with one's knowledge base. It is intended to provide an understanding of the major issues associated with the field, as well as tools to access its informational resources. This is accomplished in two parts: first, a rough overview of the IPCC AR4 Synthesis report is provided to introduce the reader to the major CCA topics; and second, a framework for organising the CCA information landscape is provided to aid researchers in keeping abreast of emerging trends. A broad overview of the CCA field is then presented along with a discussion of methodological issues, and options for further research.
       

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Blog Abstract: National Geographic (October 17, 2012)    
 
Land Use, Climate Change Adaptation, and Indigenous Peoples   

Kirsty Galloway McLean, Guest Blogger      

 

For indigenous peoples, resilience is rooted in traditional knowledge, as their capacity to adapt to environmental change is based first and foremost on in-depth understanding of the land. As climate change increasingly impacts indigenous landscapes, communities are responding and adapting in unique ways. In a recent statement to the Conference of Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, the International Indigenous Peoples Forum on Climate Change (IIPFCC) stated: "...[W]e reiterate the need for recognition of our traditional knowledge, which we have sustainably used and practiced for generations; and the need to integrate such knowledge in global, national and sub-national efforts. This knowledge is our vital contribution to climate change adaptation and mitigation
       

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Press Release: USGS (October 10, 2012) 
 
Interior Secretary Announces Funding for 2012 CSC Climate Science Projects 
    

 

Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar has announced funding of more than $10 million awarded by Interior's regional Climate Science Centers to universities or other partners for research to guide managers of parks, refuges and other resources in planning how to help species and ecosystems adapt to climate change.  The 69 studies at eight climate science centers focus on how climate change will affect natural resources. For example, various projects identify how sea-level rise will affect coastal resources, how climate will affect vegetation, how these changes will affect valued species such as sage grouse, and how changes in water availability will affect both people and ecosystems-and ecosystem services such as fisheries. Several studies address the potential effects on resources of concern to Native Americans, some by using traditional ecological knowledge to advance adaptation planning.
       

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Greg Pederson  PhD - US Geologic Survey Northern Rockies Office, Bozeman, MT
Lara Hansen PhD - Chief Scientist, EcoAdapt, Seattle, WA
Fiona Schmiegelow PhD - University of Alberta, Boreal Initiative, Whitehorse, Yukon
Ric Hauer PhD - University of Montana, Flathead Lake Biological Station, MT
Molly Cross PhD - Wildlife Conservation Society, Bozeman, MT
Charles Chester PhD - Brandeis University, Y2Y, Cambridge, MA
Wendy Francis LLM - Program Director, Y2Y, Banff, AB
Jim Pojar PhD - Northwest Institute, Smithers, BC
Bob O. Manteaw PhD - Climate Change Adaptation Strategy Coordinator Climate  Change Secretariat Alberta Environment
John Wilmshurst PhD - Ecosystem Science Coordinator, Jasper National Park. AB
Anne Carlson PhD - Climate Associate, Northern Rockies Regional Office, The Wilderness Society, Bozeman, MT
Jennifer Miller MA - Montana Program Officer, Northern Rockies Regional Office, The Wilderness Society, Bozeman, MT
Gary M. Tabor VMD MSc - Senior Advisor on Climate Change Adaptation, Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative & Executive Director, Center for Large Landscape Conservation

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