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Climate Smart Conservation and Tools for Adaptive Management

c alifornialcc.org. Climate Smart Conservation and Tools for Adaptive Management. Debra Schlafmann , Coordinator May 16, 2013. California Landscape Conservation Cooperative. California supports diverse and thriving ecosystems through lasting cooperative conservation partnerships.

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Climate Smart Conservation and Tools for Adaptive Management

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  1. californialcc.org Climate Smart Conservation and Tools for Adaptive Management Debra Schlafmann, Coordinator May 16, 2013

  2. California Landscape Conservation Cooperative California supports diverse and thriving ecosystems through lasting cooperative conservation partnerships LCC Network Sec Order 3289. Addressing Impacts of Climate Change on Americas Water, Land, and Other Natural and Cultural Resources; LCC, CSC, Energy and Climate Change Council

  3. California Landscape Conservation Cooperative California supports diverse and thriving ecosystems through lasting cooperative conservation partnerships. Vision

  4. California Landscape Conservation Cooperative A growing community of resource managers, scientists, conservation practitioners, and others that are successfully collaborating to advance and implement actions that promote resilient and adaptable ecosystems across the landscape in the face of environmental change. Five year Goal

  5. California Landscape Conservation Cooperative Steering Committee

  6. California Landscape Conservation Cooperative Steering Committee Organization Science-Management Team Communication Team Staff Ecoregional Teams Ecoregional Teams

  7. California Landscape Conservation Cooperative Coordinator – Debra SchlafmannScience Coordinator – Rebecca FrisResearch Ecologist (USGS) – Karen ThorneData Management – Deanne DiPietro and Zhahai Stewart Graduate Student – Andrea Graffis Staff

  8. California Landscape Conservation Cooperative • Supports development of science-based tools and adaptation strategies • Provides relevant and applied science to natural resource managers • Facilitate information acquisition, interpretation, translation, exchange and availability • Fosters better decision making on resource management issues Science Delivery

  9. California Landscape Conservation Cooperative • Funded more than 25 collaborative science projects in last three years • CA LCC funding totaled almost $2.5 million • Partner contributions added an additional $4 million Science Delivery

  10. California Landscape Conservation Cooperative Resources for Climate Smart Adaptation • Digital library of climate science – Climate Commons • Invasive species tool • Sea level rise modeling • Climate change impacts to • inland fish • Rangeland threats analysis Tools

  11. California Landscape Conservation Cooperative Climate Commons

  12. California Landscape Conservation Cooperative Climate Commons

  13. California Landscape Conservation Cooperative Climate Commons

  14. California Landscape Conservation Cooperative • California Invasive Plant Council Science Delivery

  15. California Landscape Conservation Cooperative • Regional Strategies: • Translate information from CalWeedMapper to regionwide • opportunities for surveillance & eradication CalWeedMapper

  16. California Landscape Conservation Cooperative 8.0 8.4 11.8 9.0 8.6 8.3 • Sea level rise modeling at FWS Refuges, USGS • How will climate change and sea level rise impact coastal ecosystems? • Developing site specific sea-level rise models to assess impacts on marsh plant communities and wildlife including T&E species. 8.3 7.6 7.3 6.9 Science Delivery 6.9 5.9 5.8 8.2 5.3 5.3 5.4 Tidal Range 5.3-11.8 ft. (1.6-3.6 m), South-to-North Gradient 5.7

  17. California Landscape Conservation Cooperative • Information recently released for 12 sites in the San Francisco Bay • Example: China Camp Results • Marsh elevation modeling shows that China Camp will not keep pace with local sea level rise through this century Sea Level Rise

  18. California Landscape Conservation Cooperative • Effects of climate on inland fishes CA, P. Moyle UCD Vulnerability Assessments Endemic Fishes Areas and Management Units: Upper Klamath River Colorado River & Salton Sea Lower Klamath River San Francisco Bay Pit River Lahontan Clear Lake Owens Valley South Coast Amargosa Central Valley Mojave Monterey Bay Goose Lake Kern River Sierra Nevada North Coast Eagle Lake Science Delivery

  19. California Landscape Conservation Cooperative Effects of climate on inland fishes CA, P. Moyle UCD • Fishes in So. and E. part of state most threatened by present status and climate change • Fishes in Monterey Bay least vulnerable Fish Vulnerability Assessments

  20. California Landscape Conservation Cooperative Effects of climate on inland fishes CA, P. Moyle UCD FINAL REPORT Rank native species and non native by vulnerability Analysis vulnerability by region Recommendations for statewide conservation strategy Posted on CDFW website Fish Vulnerability Assessments

  21. California Landscape Conservation Cooperative • Climate Change and Land Use Change Scenarios for Rangelands, USGS and Defenders of Wildlife • Scenarios for Central Valley and Chaparral and Oak Woodland eco-regions. • ID potential threats to high priority conservation areas within CRCC. • Economic analysis of scenarios to quantify costs and benefits to the CRCC landscape. Science Delivery

  22. California Landscape Conservation Cooperative Website

  23. We must do more to combat climate change… to prepare our communities for the consequences of climate change -- State of the Union 2013

  24. Climate Smart Adaptive Management

  25. Conduct and coordinate information exchange between scientists and managers to advance decision-making and conservation at a landscape scale. *Science Strategy *Communication Strategy 3 Objectives:

  26. Enhance climate-smart conservation (nature-based adaption and mitigation) on a landscape scale. Objectives:

  27. Forward looking goals • ID actions linked to future conditions • Design actions in ecosystem/watershed context • Adaptive and flexible management timely to continual change Climate Smart Principles:

  28. Collaborate and communicate across sectors for timely long term solutions • Follow Ellies TEN% rule: Test, and Experiment Now Climate Smart Principles:

  29. Enhance climate-smart conservation (nature-based adaption and mitigation) on a landscape scale. Support place-based projects in ecoregions that advance conservation at landscape scale Objectives:

  30. Enhance climate-smart conservation (nature-based adaption and mitigation) on a landscape scale. Support place-based projects in ecoregions that advance conservation at landscape scale Objectives:

  31. Enhance climate-smart conservation (nature-based adaption and mitigation) on a landscape scale. Support and coordinate cross-sectoral understanding of ecosystem processes and services to advance climate-smart conservation at landscape scale Objectives:

  32. 3. Ensure CA LCC provides effective and lasting outcomes that support California’s diverse and thriving ecosystems Objectives:

  33. California Landscape Conservation Cooperative • Participation in Subcommittees • Partnering on projects • Trainings and workshops • Talk to Bob How to Engage Red fox in the Sierra Nevada

  34. California Landscape Conservation Cooperative CA LCC List serve: Sign up on front page of website CaliforniaLCC.org Join Us

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