Integrating Climate Adaptation into Land Conservation: A Climate-Smart Framework for Land Trusts

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

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.

If your organization is looking to integrate climate change into land protection and management decisions, this session will explain how your land trust can take advantage of Land and Climate Program Grant funding to create climate-informed land conservation, stewardship or communications plans.

Climate Literacy: The Essential Principles of Climate Science presents information that is deemed important for individuals and communities to know and understand about Earth’s climate, impacts of climate change and approaches to adaptation or mitigation.

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.

This second edition of the Forest Adaptation Resources provides a collection of resources designed to help forest managers incorporate climate change considerations into management and devise adaptation tactics. It was developed as part of the Climate Change Response Framework and reflects the expertise, creativity, and feedback of dozens of direct contributors and hundreds of users of the first edition over the last several years.

With this project, the Land Trust Alliance and the Open Space Institute engaged Water Words That Work, LLC to seek answers on how land trusts can best integrate climate change into their outreach.

This document was created by the Northern Institute of Applied Climate Science in collaboration with the Land Trust Alliance. This Quick Guide was developed specifically to support land trusts and serve as a steppingstone for the process of adaptation planning.

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.

In Rhode Island, South Kingstown Land Trust's vulnerability assessment and planning efforts identify goals, natural resource assets and management priorities to support adaptation.