Climate Adaptation for Land Trusts

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Climate Adaptation for Land Trusts Course

Reminder: Timely Opportunity!

Reminders: Short Course Assignments

Our next session will be on Wednesday, June 30th, at 3 pm Eastern (2 pm Central / 1p Mountain) where we will discuss your adaptation projects.

Before next session:

Review the Quick Start Guide to Climate Adaptation (also listed below) and print off paper copies of any resources you want to take to your site visit.

Review any relevant impact and vulnerability resources.

Select a project site to use for your field activity.

Tell us about your plans for visiting your site using this form. Due June 21.

Visit your project site, using the worksheets from the Quick Start Guide to support your thinking and discussion. Due June 28.

Share your field site location, a picture of your site, and three keywords that describe your project using this Google Map. Need instructions? See this tutorial. Due June 28.

Get ready to share your experience and ideas during our June 30 session. To help quickly share your key ideas, we'll be using a "Mad Libs" format. Take a look and consider what keywords you'd include for your project!

"Here at ___(place)___, we care about ___(value related to place)___. We’re concerned that climate change will ___(climate impact)___ and ___(climate impact)___. We plan to ____(adaptation action)____ which also provides benefits for ___(co-benefit)__

and __(co-benefit)__."

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Course Guide

Course Guidebook

We will use the Adaptation Quick Guide for Land Trusts throughout this course. The guide draws on the five-step Adaptation Workbook process to help you design and implement adaptation actions in your work, with a special eye toward stewardship activities.

Download the Quick Guide

Have questions or need additional assistance? Schedule office hours to meet with an instructor here.

Resources

Climate adaptation projects can be a useful way to demonstrate adaptation ideas to stakeholders. To help get started on outreach, the Land Trust Alliance has outlined several Recommendations for Communicating about Climate Change.

To see adaptation projects in your area or those focused on similar resources, visit the Adaptation Demonstrations page and browse or filter examples.

Interested in learning more about adaptation concepts? Watch this 15-minute tutorial on climate responses including Resistance, Resilience and Transition (RRT).

Remember to check the instructional plan for vulnerability resources, or contact us if you can't find resources relevant to your property!

If you have any questions, please use this week to schedule Office Hours with course instructors.

Thank you, have a great week!

Kristen Schmitt, Danielle Shannon