Climate Adaptation for Land Trusts: Short Course

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Climate Adaptation Short Course

Welcome!

Thank you for joining us for the online Climate Adaptation Short Course for Land Trusts.

We're looking forward to seeing you at our first session on Wednesday, June 9th, at 3pm Eastern (2p Central / 1p Mountain / 12p Pacific).

Sessions will run for 1.5 hours. Connection information for the course is included below.

A few items before our first session:

Please use a webcam if you have one and your circumstances allow it.
The Instructional Plan has an outline of the course agenda and assignments for each week.
After each session, we'll send a message with relevant resources and assignments. Please keep an eye out for these messages. We'll also include these on our course website.
Contact us with any questions!

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Course Schedule and Connection Information

This course is designed for land trusts actively working on stewardship projects in rural, suburban, and urban forests, forested watersheds, and wetland systems. Land trusts can participate as individuals or in groups up to five.

Zoom link & Password for web sessions:

Join the Zoom meeting here

Password: 189722

Session 1: Wednesday, June 9, 3:00-4:30 p.m. Eastern (2pCT/1pMT)

Live virtual session

Introduction to the short course and the climate adaptation process and resources

Session 2: Wednesday, June 16, 3:00-4:30 p.m. Eastern (2pCT/1pMT)

Live virtual session (optional), or view recording on your own time

Understanding climate change impacts and vulnerabilities in your area

Session 3: Week of June 21

Self-study, field activity

Completing the Adaptation Workbook for your selected property

Session 4: Wednesday, June 30, 3:00-4:30 p.m. Eastern (2pCT/1pMT)

Live virtual session

A discussion of adaptation projects and course wrap-up

Office hours: Optional but highly encouraged - sign up for a 30-minute timeslot or contact individual instructors for additional times.

email: Kristen Schmitt, Danielle Shannon

Course Goals

Identify locally important climate change impacts, challenges, and opportunities.
Understand a step-by-step process for considering climate change and carbon in land stewardship and management.
Develop actions to help a specific natural area adapt to changing conditions.
Communicate with stakeholders about climate impacts and adaptation responses

Course Guidebook

Download the 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 Guidebook

Resources to get you started

Climate Change Science and Modeling: What You Need to Know

If you're a little rusty on the basics of climate change and need a refresher, we'd recommend this self-paced 15-20 minute tutorial. It goes through some of the basic principles of climate science and how it impacts those of us working in conservation and natural resources management.

View the module

Look to the Land: Carbon Management in Forests and Grasslands (pg. 25)

This article outlines some general principles of carbon management in forests and grasslands, with an emphasis on how land trusts can promote this value on their properties in conjunction with other goals. Read the article in the Land Trust Alliance's Saving Land magazine.

Read the article

Thank you for being part of the course, we are happy you are here. Please feel free to reach out to us with any questions that you might have, we are here to help!

Thank you, have a great week!

Kristen Schmitt, Danielle Shannon