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The Nature Conservancy’s Conservation Action Plan for the Gila Headwaters (October 2010)
The Nature Conservancy recently updated its Conservation Action Plan for the Gila Headwaters. This paper describes TNC's planning process. The process involves defining the project area, identifying conservation targets, assessing conservation target viability, identifying critical threats to these targets, developing and implementing strategies to abate these threats and improve target viability, and measuring strategy effectiveness.
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Bear River Climate Adaptation Workshop: Participant Notebook (May 2010)
Agenda, climate change scenarios, climate change adaptation framework description, background information about climate change in the Great Basin, and other materials that were distributed in a notebook to all participants at the Bear River Climate Adaptation Workshop of May 2010.
Bear River Climate Change Adaptation Workshop Final Report and Appendices (2010)
The Nature Conservancy (TNC) convened a two-day workshop entitled Climate Change Adaptation Workshop for Natural Resource Managers in the Bear River Basin on May 26-27, 2010, in Salt Lake City, Utah. The goal of the workshop was to identify management strategies that will help native plants, animals and ecosystems adapt to a changing climate and lay the groundwork for their implementation in the Bear River Basin. Thrity-nine representatives of 20 state and federal agencies, local governments, academic institutions, and non-governmental organizations participated.
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Bear River Climate Change Adaptation Workshop Presentations (May 2010)
Presentations by speakers at the Bear River Climate Adaptation Workshop of May 2010, including Patrick McCarthy (The Nature Conservancy in New Mexico), Dr. Gregg Garfin (University of Arizona), Dr. Linda O. Mearns (National Center for Atmospheric Research), Dr. Joe Barsugli (University of Colorado), Dr. Frederic H. Wagner (Utah State University), and Dr. Molly Cross (Wildlife Conservation Society).
- Southwest Climate Change Initiative (SWCCI) Overview – Patrick McCarthy
- Statement of the Problem and Rationale for Workshop – Dr. Gregg Garfin
- Overview of Regional Climate Change Impacts: The Known, the Unknown, and the Uncertain – Dr. Linda Mearns
- Overview of Past and Potential Future Trends in River Stream Flows in the Bear River Basin – Dr. Joe Barsugli
Flagstaff Climate Adaptation Workshop: Presentations (April 2010)
Presentations by speakers at the Flagstaff Climate Adaptation Workshop of April 2010, including Dr. Gregg Garfin (University of Arizona), Dr. Linda O. Mearns (National Center for Atmospheric Research), Dr. Seshadri Rajagopal (University of Arizona), Dr. Kenneth Cole (US Geological Survey), Dr. Kirsten E. Ironside (Northern Arizona University), Dr. Peter Fule (Northern Arizona University), Megan M. Friggins (USFS – Rocky Mtn Research Station), Dr. Joseph L. Ganey (USFS – Rocky Mtn Research Station), and Dr. Molly Cross (Wildlife Conservation Society).
- Overview of Arizona Climate Change Adaptation Workshop for Natural Resource Managers – Dr. Gregg Garfin
- Future Regional Climate Change in Arizona – Concepts and Scenarios – Dr. Linda O Mearns
- Assessing Impacts of Climate Change in a Semi-arid Watershed Using Downscaled IPCC Climate Output – Dr. Seshadri Rajagopal
- Paleoclimate of the Southern Colorado Plateau: A Context for Future Change – Dr. Kenneth Cole
- Plausible Future Effects of Climate Change on Ponderosa Pine – Dr. Kirsten Ironside
- Interaction of Climate Change, Fire Regimes, and Hydrologic Regimes – Dr. Peter Fule
- The Mexican Spotted Owl – Results of a Vulnerability to Climate Change Assessment – Megan M Friggins
- Tree Mortality in Drought-stressed Mixed Conifer and Ponderosa Pine Forests, Arizona - Abstract – Dr. Joseph L Ganey
- Placed-based Climate Change Planning – Overcoming the Paralysis of Uncertainty - Dr. Molly Cross
- Implementing a Framework for Adaptation Planning – Future Climate Scenarios, Goals, and Logistics – Dr. Gregg Garfin
River Ecosystem Restoration Initiative (January 2010)
The New Mexico River Ecosystem Restoration Initiative The River Ecosystem Restoration Initiative ("RERI") was established as part of Governor Richardson’s “2007 Year of Water” legislative agenda. The RERI is designed to sustain, re-establish and rehabilitate the integrity and understanding of New Mexico’s river ecosystems through the enhancement of physical, chemical and biological characteristics. Since 2007 twenty-seven projects have been funded to restore 2,394 riparian acres and 33 river miles. New Mexico has awarded over $5 million through 27 RERI grants and this has yielded an additional $3 million from in-kind contributions and leveraged another $3 million from federal and private restoration funding sources. RERI funded projects have created 222 full-time, part-time and temporary private sector jobs.
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Gunnison Basin Climate Adaptation Workshop: Final Report & Appendices (December 2009)
The Nature Conservancy (TNC) convened a two-day workshop entitled Climate Change Adaptation Workshop for Natural Resource Managers in the Gunnison Basin on December 2-3, 2009, in Gunnison, Colorado. The goal of the workshop was to identify management strategies that will help native plants, animals and ecosystems adapt to a changing climate and lay the groundwork for their implementation in the Gunnison Basin. Fifty-seven representatives of 20 state and federal agencies, local governments, academic institutions, and non-governmental organizations participated.
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Jemez Mountains Climate Change Adaptation Workshop: Final Report (April 2009)
Report on the Southwest Climate Change Initiative’s Jemez Mountains Climate Change Adaptation Workshop of April 2009 in Los Alamos, New Mexico. 41 pp., including executive summary and appendices.
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Jemez Mountains Climate Adaptation Workshop: Presentations (April 2009)
Presentations by speakers at the Jemez Mountains Climate Adaptation Workshop of April 2009, including Todd Ringler (Los Alamos National Lab), Bob Parmenter (Valles Caldera National Preserve), Molly Cross (Wildlife Conservation Society) and Carolyn Enquist (The Nature Conservancy)
Report 2 (of 3) Evidence of Climate Change in NM (December 2008)
The second of three reports assesses the conservation implications of recent climate change on New Mexico’s watersheds and hydrology. Analyzing recent trends (1970-2006) in a water balance variable—climate water deficit—that indicates biological moisture stress or drying, this study identifies watersheds of high conservation importance in New Mexico that are most and least vulnerable to ongoing climate change.
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Iron Bridge Management Plan (September 2008)
This document summarizes the ecological significance, acquisition steps, and management activities for the Iron Bridge Conservation Area, that was purchased in 2008 in partnership with the New Mexico Department of Game and Fish using Natural Lands Protection Act Funds.
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Freshwater Status (December 2007)
A slideshow depicting the health of New Mexico's Rivers. The Nature Conservancy partnered with New Mexico Game and Fish, New Mexico Environment Department, and Natural Heritage New Mexico.
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Report 1 (of 3) Evidence of Climate Change in NM (April 2008)
There is now strong scientific evidence that human-induced climate change is affecting the earth's species and ecological systems. The Nature Conservancy's state-wide assessment of recent climate change enables practitioners and managers to make better informed decisions and to take action in the near-term by identifying the potential vulnerability of habitat types, priority conservation sites and species to climate change.
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