Resources

In 2008, the City of Kimberley, British Columbia, was selected as a pilot project for the Columbia Basin Trust’s initiative called Communities Adapting to Climate Change. The project identified climate change impacts of local concern, prioritized areas of vulnerability, and developed recommendations for adaptation strategies that the city of Kimberley can implement.

The Chesapeake Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve in Virginia (CBNERR-VA), along with four other National Estuarine Research Reserves, is acting as a sentinel site to monitor climate change impacts on salt marsh habitat.

The South Slough NERR, along with four other NERRs, is acting as a sentinel site to monitor climate change impacts on salt marsh habitat. This project involves creating a long-term ecological monitoring program to determine the effects of sea level rise, warmer temperatures, and coastal storms on salt marshes.

The North Carolina NERR, along with four other NERRs, is acting as a sentinel site to monitor climate change impacts on salt marsh habitat. This project involves creating a long-term ecological monitoring program to determine the effects of sea level rise, warmer temperatures, and coastal storms on salt marshes.

The Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and Wildlife (MassWildlife) is using the results of a habitat vulnerability assessment to create and implement climate-smart adaptation strategies in management, acquisition, research, and monitoring activities. This project used an expert panel to identify and rank the vulnerabilities of 20 key habitat types to projected climate change impacts.

The Waihe’e Coastal Dunes and Wetlands Refuge was purchased by the Maui Coastal Land Trust in 2004. Since 2011, the Hawaiian Islands Land Trust has managed the site. The refuge has a total area of 277 acres containing vital habitats such as wetlands and marine shoreline and has one of the largest remaining, intact sand dune systems in all of Hawaii.

The California State Parks system is comprised of roughly 275 parks over 1.5 million acres of land.

The Nature Conservancy developed the Conservation Action Planning (CAP) tool in order to guide projects’ design, implementation, and evaluation. The Alaska chapter has developed a CAP for the Arctic marine region of the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas.

Climate change in Mexico will cause reduction in rainfall and increased droughts, which will in turn affect riverine, estuarine, and coastal systems, and the country's water supply upon which people and industries depend. Mexico’s National Water Commission (Comisión Nacional del Agua - CONAGUA) released a report to address water supply issues and analyze predictions for better planning.