A Quick Guide to Adaptation Planning for Land Trusts

Whether they take credit for it or not, land trusts already plan for climate change. This document outlines tools and approaches land trusts can use to plan for climate change in the short-term and long-term.

Many climate adaptation planning tools don't address the unique needs, values and cultures of indigenous communities. This Tribal Climate Adaptation Menu provides a framework to integrate indigenous and traditional knowledge, culture, language and history into the climate adaptation planning process

We all benefit from nature. But nature’s economic worth can also be quantified. Research shows that land conservation adds an impressive economic value by boosting local economies, saving money on health care, filtering drinking water, providing natural disaster mitigation, and more.

A Land Trust Alliance pilot program opens the door to carbon financing for two land trusts in Maine.

Open Space Institute developed this guide to help groups that protect and steward land determine how much carbon a forest stores today, and how much additional carbon could be sequestered by 2050.

Land trusts are creating safe havens for the nation’s most vulnerable wildlife species by helping to address the threats of habitat loss, disease, invasive species, climate change and more.

This document reviews the basics of climate change, including impacts of climate change and the future impacts of climate change.

Bainbridge Island Land Trust is working with property owners to implement natural adaptation solutions to build more resilient coastal systems.

Review of Literature on Climate Change and Forest Diseases of Western North America offers a detailed summary of the relationships between climate and various types of tree diseases and the potential effects of climate change on pathogens in western North American forests.