Climate Change Resource Center
The Climate Change Resource Center (CCRC) Web site provides information on the latest
climate change research by U.S. Forest Service scientists in the Western United States.
Resources for forest and other land managers developing adaptation and mitigation strategies include:
• A framework for developing management options
• Vegetation maps and current and future scenarios
• Case studies
Other educational resources include:
•Primers on climate change
•Video lectures
•An annotated bibliography for nearly 600 articles
•Links to other useful resources
www.fs.fed.us/ccrc
Climate Change Resource Center
What do we know about climate change and…?
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Air pollution
Amphibians and reptiles
Assessments
Bark beetles
Biodiversity
Birds
Cumulative effects
Forest and carbon storage
Genetic resources
Invasive plants
Landscape analysis
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Natural resource strategies
Plant diseases
Policy analyses
Salmon and trout
Silviculture
Vegetation distribution
Water
Wilderness
Wildland fire
Wildlife
Forest Service scientists summarize current research on these topics, discuss likely climaterelated changes, pose crucial questions, and recommend further reading.
The CCRC is a collaborative project of the Pacific Northwest, Pacific Southwest, and Rocky Mountain
Research Stations and the Western Wildland Environmental Threat Assessment Center.
www.fs.fed.us/ccrc
Globe image by NASA’s Earth Observatory