Managing for Climate Resilience on The Nature Conservancy Preserves and Managed Lands in the Eastern United States
Guidance for adapting land management to climate change, ensuring resilient sites where nature and people thrive. Defines climate-informed strategies for stewardship, protection, and restoration across TNC’s connected network of resilient lands.
Subject Tags
- Land management
- Habitat restoration
- Climate resilience
Abstract
This guidance promotes shared principles for adapting land management in an uncertain future of climate change in order to ensure a world where nature and people thrive.
The document is intended to guide action by TNC land managers on the most important resilient sites under TNC management and define and outline what improved management means in the context of climate-resilient lands. It is important to define and outline climate-informed strategies for land management and ecological protection and/or restoration of the resilient and connected network. Stewardship staff should be working with Protection staff to identify lands that contribute to resilience at the preserve scale.
Citation
Lombard, K., Anderson, M. G., Barlow, K., Goodwin, G., Serbesoff-King, K., Sferra, N., & Wraithwall, J. (Eds.). (2021). Managing for climate resilience on The Nature Conservancy preserves and managed lands in the eastern United States. The Nature Conservancy, Center for Resilient Conservation Science.
TNC Authors
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Karen Lombard
Director of Stewardship & Restoration, Massachusetts
The Nature Conservancy
Email: klombard@tnc.org -
Mark G. Anderson
Director of Conservation Science
The Nature Conservancy
Email: manderson@tnc.org -
Kristine Serbesoff-King
Dir of Science and Planning, Florida
The Nature Conservancy
Email: kserbesoffking@tnc.org -
Joseph Wraithwall
The Nature Conservancy -
Nancy Sferra
The Nature Conservancy -
Gus Goodwin
The Nature Conservancy -
Katy Barlow
The Nature Conservancy