Framework for Cooperative Conservation and Climate Adaptation for the Southern Sierra Nevada and Tehachapi Mountains Volume I
Abstract
This Framework for Cooperative Conservation and Climate-Adaptation provides a regional context for federal, state and local agencies, districts, and organizations focused on individual parks, preserves, watersheds, and project initiatives in the southern Sierra. With climate change, land managers responsible for individual parks or preserves will face challenges of scale, as suitable conditions for some species of concern may fall outside of the parks.Climate change – its scope and pace, and the uncertainty about how ecosystems will respond to it – fundamentally challenges conservation planning. Traditional assumptions and methods of setting priorities must be recalibrated to create new approaches and methods for incorporating climate change into the conservation planning process. This Framework provides a real-world example of a climate-adapted conservation plan which can help move the conservation field beyond ideas and concepts toward implementation.
