Climate Change: Various Adaptation Efforts Are Under Way at Key Natural Resource Management Agencies
“Since 2007, the Forest Service, the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the Fish and Wildlife Service, and the
National Park Service have taken steps to establish strategic directions for
addressing climate change adaptation. For example, the Forest Service developed
a strategic framework document that established climate change adaptation as a
central agency priority and another document, known as "the roadmap,"
which identified actions that national forest managers were taking or could
take to implement the direction outlined in the framework, including
re-vegetating ecosystems that had been affected by fire with plant species that
are better adapted to current and future climates. These four agencies have
also developed guidance, training, and other tools for managers to use in
adapting to climate change. For example, the National Park Service is
developing guidance for park-based climate change adaptation plans that
includes steps such as identifying conservation targets and conducting
vulnerability assessments. The Bureau of Land Management has not established a
strategic direction for addressing climate change impacts but is planning to
develop a high-level climate change adaptation strategy by the end of the
summer 2013. In addition, GAO visited one field location within each agency and
found that managers at four of the five locations have taken steps to address
climate change adaptation.”
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“The Rainbow Family of Living Light is a self-described
loose knit group of people without leadership or organization who participate
in a national gathering once a year on national forests during a two-week
period around the Fourth of July holiday. The event has drawn anywhere from
7,000-20,000 people, with the population generally peaking during the week of
July 4.”
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