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Climate Change in America's National Parks: Tracking forest and landscape change from space using the ForWarn system.

Climate Resilience: What to Expect, How to Prepare, and What You Can Learn from Others: Join us for a webcast on climate resilience – the capacity of an individual, community, or institution to dynamically and effectively respond to shifting climate impacts while continuing to function at an acceptable level.

GOT TREES? Building Climate-Ready Agriculture.: Agricultural lands are having to meet ever-increasing production and conservation targets. At the same time agriculture’s capacity to deliver these services is being challenged by shifting climate, changing markets, and evolving environmental conditions.

Assessing climate-sensitive ecosystems in the southeastern United States: The southeastern U.S. contains a unique diversity of ecosystems that provide important benefits, including habitat for wildlife and plants, water quality, and recreation opportunities. As climate changes, a better understanding of how our ecosystems will be affected is vital for identifying strategies to protect these ecosystems.

Oak, Fire, and Global Change: What Might the Future Hold?: The pace of environmental and socioeconomic change over the past 100 years has been rapid.

Climate-informed management of oak ecosystems in the Central Hardwoods region: Global climate changes will lead to local impacts on oak ecosystems throughout the central hardwoods region, including shifts in habitat suitability for different species, changes in soil moisture regime, and effects on insect pests, diseases, and species invasion.

Climate-Smart Seedlot Selection Tool Webinar: Reforestation and Restoration for the 21st Century: This project’s main objective is to produce an interactive mapping application that will help forest managers match seedlots with planting sites.

Responding to Drought and Water Challenges: Coldwater Fisheries and Climate Adaptation Case Studies in the Western and Eastern United States.

What is Ecological Drought? Exploring its impacts on natural and cultural resources: In 2017 the National Climate Change and Wildlife Science Center (NCCWSC), in partnership with the National Conservation Training Center (NCTC), will be dedicating their webinar series to ecological drought with presentations from NCCWSC and the DOI Climate Science Centers (CSCs).

The Adaptation Workbook - Building Your Climate Adaptation Plan: A collaboration between the Climate Learning Network and the Climate Science Initiative, this webinar provides an overview of the Adaptation Workbook, an online, interactive, and practical workbook that helps land managers develop their own custom built climate change adaptation plans (www.adaptationworkbook.org).

The Adaptation Workbook - Building Your Climate Adaptation Plan: A collaboration between the Climate Learning Network and the Climate Science Initiative, this webinar provides an overview of the Adaptation Workbook, an online, interactive, and practical workbook that helps land managers develop their own custom built climate change adaptation plans (www.adaptationworkbook.org).

Webinar: Effects of Climate Change on Inland Fish and Fisheries: Global, North American, and Management Perspectives: Join AFWA's Effects of Climate Change webinar coming up next Wednesday.

Conservation Planning: Conservation planning identifies and prioritizes lands that encompass important natural or cultural resources across the landscape (e.g., critical watersheds, habitat for rare or threatened species) and develops protection and management strategies for these lands. It is a process where science is at the core of planning, but the science is informed by groups of stakeholders using their on-the-ground knowledge and expertise.

Appalachian LCC Integrating Cultural Resources Research Webinar: Presentation by Dr. Tim Murtha of Penn State University on a collaborative research project sponsored by the National Park Service and the Appalachian LCC, which seeks to integrate cultural resources, such as historic bridges and Civil War Battlefields, into landscape conservation planning and design to emphasize both natural and cultural resources in defining conservation priorities.

The 5 Principles of Soil Health: Presented by Tony Richards, a conservation planner in Tremonton, UT.

Virtual tour: Native Warm Season Grass Grazing: Join a tour of pasture lands that use native warm season grasses to provide good grazing for livestock and invaluable habitat, food, and shelter for native wildlife. The video highlights the benefits of different native grasses and how quickly these grasses can benefit working lands. Developed and provided by Ohio NRCS, Ohio State University Extension, the Madison Soil and Water Conservation District, and Quail/Pheasants Forever. Released September 2020.

Conservation Planning Process: Dr. Robert Baldwin of Clemson University explains in this video the steps involved in the conservation planning process.

Riparian Restoration Decision Support Tool: An innovative riparian planting and restoration decision support tool is now available to the conservation community. This user-friendly tool allows managers and decision-makers to rapidly identify and prioritize areas along the banks of rivers, streams, and lakes for restoration, making these ecosystems more resilient to disturbance and future changes in climate. It will also help the conservation community invest limited conservation dollars wisely, helping to deliver sustainable resources.

Assessing Future Energy Development: Assessing Future Energy Development across the Appalachian LCC uses models that combine data on energy development trends and identifies where these may intersect with important natural resource and ecosystem services to give a more comprehensive picture of what potential energy development could look like in the Appalachians. A web-based mapping tool allows policy makers, land management agencies, industries, and others to see where development may likely occur and intersect with important natural values to inform regional landscape planning decisions. Ultimately this information is intended to support dialogue and conservation on how to effectively avoid, minimize, and offset impacts from energy development to important natural areas and the valuable services they provide.