Safeguarding Wildlife from Climate Change Web Conference Series (ALC3902)

A partnership between the National Wildlife Federation and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and National Wildlife Federation have developed a series of web conferences to increase communication and transfer of technical information between conservation professionals regarding the increasing challenges from climate change. This program is being facilitated by the USFWS's National Conservation Training Center (NCTC) Applied Landscape Conservation Team.

“Case Study: Implementing Regional Adaptation Strategies: Ecological Assessment and Restoration of
Springs in the Sky Island region in Arizona”

Wednesday, May 15, 2013, 1:00-2:30 PM Eastern

Louise Misztal, Conservation Policy Program Coordinator and GIS Specialist, Sky Island Alliance   

Description:  Sky Island Alliance is currently conducting a project to inventory, assess, and restore spring ecosystems in the Sky Island region. It is known that springs in arid regions occupy a small fraction of the landscape and yet support disproportionately high levels of productivity, endemism, and biodiversity. The need for inventory, assessment, and restoration of springs was raised at two regional climate change adaptation workshops convened and organized by Sky Island Alliance in collaboration with a variety of partners including federal and state land and wildlife management agencies. Managers with extensive on-the-ground knowledge identified the following strategies to reduce the vulnerability of springs to climate change: inventorying spring locations, conditions and characteristics, species presence and management status; coordinating data sharing across jurisdictions to understand springs in a regional context; prioritizing springs for restoration and protective management; and coordinating management across jurisdictions to implement protection and restoration of spring ecosystems. Project outcomes include new critical baseline data on springs, a regional database accessible to cooperating agencies that will house spring assessment information, identification of protection and restoration needs at springs, the restoration of 9 priority springs, and the assessment of restoration efficacy.

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If you cannot attend the webinar it will be recorded, edited, and posted approximately 2 weeks after the presentation is given and posted on our Climate Change website.

If you have any questions regarding this month’s webinar, please contact: Ashley_Fortune@fws.gov.

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