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Climate Change Planning in Alaska’s National Parks

SOUTHEAST ALASKA PARKS Post-Workshop Brainstorming Session: WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE? March 15, 2012. Climate Change Planning in Alaska’s National Parks. Common Issues. TEK in planning Co-management Invasive management Cooperation at local level Budget issues Value-based management

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Climate Change Planning in Alaska’s National Parks

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  1. SOUTHEAST ALASKA PARKS Post-Workshop Brainstorming Session: WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE? March 15, 2012 Climate Change Planning in Alaska’s National Parks

  2. Common Issues • TEK in planning • Co-management • Invasive management • Cooperation at local level • Budget issues • Value-based management • How to make hard decisions? • Values are changing—need a transparent decision process.

  3. Important Management Actions • Assess the need for fire and flood plans • Mitigate natural degraded habitat • Increased collaboration between tribes and government • Refer to climate change when making plans • Emergency op plans for fire, glaciers, fjords, … • Proactively protect, e.g., roads/trails away from sensitive spots • Reduce cost by more energy-efficient utilities/opportunities • Revitalize programs to cover recreation shoulder seasons • Community forums • Vulnerability assessments for culturally-sensitive sites • Monitor stream flow, forest health, glacier positions/mass, land cover change • Risk assessment for glacial outburst floods, emergency planning • Conduct culturally-sensitive subsistence harvest surveys to ensure access • Raise awareness at a local level of climate change impacts • Adjust regulations to address sub needs, seasons, bag limits • Evaluate capacity to adjust to changing demands

  4. Possible Products Report pros • Includes all details on process, results, scientific background, narratives, and discussion • Can be peer-reviewed; “official” • Can also be made available on line cons • Too long and unwieldy for many audiences • Expensive to produce (full color printing, binding, etc.

  5. Possible Products Poster pros • Includes some details on process, results, scientific background, narratives, and discussion • Highly portable • Many venues for presentation; wide range of audiences • Can also be made available on line cons • Too brief to convey the full depth of the process and results • Can’t fully convey narratives • Risk of misinterpretation

  6. Possible Products Video/Youtube pros • Can be made available on line • Appealing and accessible to a wide range of audiences; compelling • Excellent format for narratives cons • Risk of misinterpretation • May be considered less “official” or “serious” • Difficult to include all information and background

  7. Possible Products • Curriculum • Trainings • Community meetings • Workshops • Audio/podcast • Other?

  8. Links to SNAP products • Maps, graphs, and charts of climate projections • By region or by park • Temperature, precipitation, season length, thaw, freeze, other?

  9. Projected Winter Temperatures 2010’s 2050’s 2090’s

  10. Projected Length of Unfrozen Season 2010’s 2050’s 2090’s

  11. Links to public education topics PDO education • poorly informed public • Strong impacts on perception of climate change

  12. Links to public education topics Ocean Acidification • Public knowledge? • Effects on tipping points

  13. Links to public education topics Storms • Important in workshop process • Uncertain • Important • Effects on tipping points http://seagrant.uaf.edu/map/climate/docs/sea-level.pdf

  14. Surveys Audiences? Questions to ask? Information gaps? Ways to use the results? NPS limits on surveys Other groups that can do this?

  15. Missing Links • Tourism • Fishing industry • Logging industry • More communities • Understanding of culture and values • Place-based education

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