Adapting Conservation Easements to Climate Change

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

This is a sample conservation easement stewardship and climate change policy from the accredited Land Trust of Napa County.

Adapting to Climate Change: A Planning Guide for State Coastal Managers aims to aid in the development and implementation of adaptation plans.

The Elkhorn Slough Foundation has been responding to potential climate change impacts by working cooperatively to study and address salt marsh loss.

Sound conservation easement drafting ensures perpetual protection of the stated conservation purposes of protected land. This pointer addresses drafting future conservation easements assuming increases in impacts from such changes.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Climate Change website emphasizes adaptation, mitigation and engagement to address impacts to wildlife and natural habitat. This includes Rising to the Urgent Challenge: Strategic Plan for Responding to Accelerating Climate Change.

Land conservation and efforts to combat climate change are closely linked, and one cannot succeed without the other. This guide offers case studies about how land trusts and conservancies are working to address climate change.

The Forest Service conducts periodic assessments of the condition of forest and rangeland resources. This 2000 report assesses impacts of climate change to U.S. forests to support resource management planning objectives.

Understanding the Science of Climate Change Talking Points: Impacts to Prairie Potholes and Grasslands is a USDOI Natural Resource Report that is intended to provide park and refuge area managers and staff with accessible, up-to date information about climate change and climate change impacts to...

The Climate Change Education Partnership supports climate change communication tools and resources across the country.