The Northern Institute of Applied Climate Science, USDA Northern Forests Climate Hub, and the Land Trust Alliance are offering an online short course designed for land trusts actively working on stewardship projects in forests, suburban, and urban forests, forested watersheds, and wetland systems.

Course Goals

• Explore the Quick Guide to Adaptation Planning for Land Trusts as a way to consider climate change in land stewardship and management.
• Identify locally important climate change impacts and vulnerabilities.
• Develop actions to help your project or natural area adapt to changing conditions.
• Communicate with partners about climate impacts and adaptation responses.

Register for the short course here!

Course Agenda

Each session is 90 minutes, and begins at 11a PT/12p MT/1p CT/2p ET

Schedule:

• Week 1. Wed. October 23, 2024. Introduction to short course, adaptation concepts, and tools.
• Week 2. Wed. October 30, 2024. Assessing site-level impacts and vulnerabilities for your project area.
• Week 3. Week of November 4-8, 2024. ** No virtual session** Field Activity:  Visit your field site to complete the Adaptation Quick Guide 
• Week 4. Wed. November 13, 2024. Sharing your adaptation projects and moving forward on implementation & monitoring.

Contact us

Please contact Mattison Brady and Samantha Myers with any questions.