Climate Change Preparation Planning on National Landscape Conservation System Lands: Recommendations for Direction and Approach

This report provides specific recommendations are provided for Conservation System managers as they incorporate climate change impacts into planning documents and management strategies. The guidance was designed to help agencies, primarily the Bureau of Land Management, to develop planning frameworks that were to be implemented starting in 2010.

Climate change impacts are projected for five units under the National Landscape Conservation System (NLCS) and described in detailed summaries for:

  • Santa Rosa and San Jacinto Mountain National Monument
  • El Malpais National Monument
  • Canyons of the Ancients National Monument
  • Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument
  • Snake River Birds of Prey National Conservation Area

14 Resource Management Plans for NLCS units were reviewed, and the report lists the actions that were found to be potentially compatible and incompatible with climate change adaptation. 

The NLCS is a collection of U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) lands mandated by Congress to protect natural, cultural, geologic, scenic, scientific, and recreational resources. Historically, climate change has not been factored into Resource Management Plans (RMPs) for these areas. However, Secretarial Order 3289 requires climate change to be considered when multi-year plans are developed and resource decisions are made.

 

 

Publication Date: January 2010

Author or Affiliated User:

  • Marni E. Koopman

Related Organizations:

  • National Center for Conservation Science and Policy

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  • Planning guides

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