12 Steps for Climate Resilience: Managing your Forest With Climate Change In Mind

The climate is changing and bringing more uncertainty to the future conditions of forests. As a landowner, you can make decisions to reduce the vulnerabilities and advance the resilience of your woods. Vulnerability is the degree to which a forest is susceptible to and unable to recover from climate change. Certain forest conditions and disturbances can make a forest more or less vulnerable to climate change impacts. Resilience is the ability of a forest to recover or adapt following disturbance or change. Read these 12 steps to learn more about what you can do, today, to protect your woods.

This example is part of a suite of conservation plans, story maps and communications completed by Land and Climate Grant awardees. The Land and Climate Grant Program is a joint initiative of Land Trust Alliance and the Open Space Institute. The Program provides grants and technical assistance to land trusts and conservation groups to support the development of climate-informed land conservation, stewardship or communications plans addressing issues such as habitat resilience, carbon mitigation, and community adaptation to climate impacts such as stronger storms, flooding, drought, fire or extreme heat.