How to Consider Climate Change in Coastal Conservation

This guide provides a step-by-step approach for incorporating climate change information into new or existing conservation plans. The guide's six steps focus on climate considerations and key resources specifically relevant to the coastal environment, including coastal watersheds.

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

Land trusts can use this online guide to help create a climate change communication strategy as your organization’s human and financial resources allow.

The Climate Change Response Framework is a collaborative, cross-boundary approach among scientists, managers and landowners to incorporate climate change considerations into natural resource management.

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.

The United States Forest Service's Climate Change Resource Center is a collection of forest management resources. It includes an extensive library, climate change and carbon tools, webinars and short courses by topic area and ecosystem, as well as an introductory webinar for new users.

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

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

Local Strategies for Climate change Volume 2 presents additional information on how communities can plan for and adapt to climate change through stories describing resources that some communities are using to address this pressing management challenge.

This report from the Land Trust Alliance and the Open Space Institute aims to provide helpful guidance on how to connect on climate change and information to help land trusts respond to the greatest challenge of our time.