Products and Tools to Support Management
APPLICATION
SCORECARD
ELEMENT
Vulnerability
Assessments
a. SAVS (System for Assessing Vulnerability of Species)
b. NatureServe Climate Change Vulnerability Index
c. IUCN Red List
a. Terrestrial vertebrates
b. All vertebrates
c. Threatened plants and animals
globally
6
Natural resource
assessments
a. National Park System Climate Change Response Program
a. US National Parks
6
CATEGORY
EXAMPLES
Assessments and prioritization
Impact Assessments
Current Status
a. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
reports
a. Audubon Society State of the Birds,
b. State of National Parks
a. Global but coarse scale
a. Continental US bird species
b. US National Parks
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Monitoring
Citizen Science Programs
a. Christmas Bird Count
b. Project NOAH
Monitoring guides
a. Stream Temperature Modeling
b. Bird monitoring techniques
a. North American birds-winter
b. Most organisms-global but
spotty
a. Western US (mapping function)
b. US/UK/various
a. Web: Climate Ark blog/RMRS on Twitter
b. Reports and pamphlets
a. Any internet user
b. Generally brief
1, 5
a.
b.
c.
a.
b.
a. Adaptation planning for target
b. US- limited by available data
c. Any that can be mapped
3, 6, 7
a. Vulnerability Assessments
b. California
3, 6, 7, 8, 9,
10
a.
a.
b.
c.
d.
10
8, 5
8
Outreach
Management Planning
Process
Guidelines
Calculators
Energy use
Carbon
Ecosystem elements
a.
a.
b.
c.
d.
NCEAS Framework
USGS GAP analysis program
GIS applications (corridors, reserves, etc.)
Scanning the Conservation Horizon
California Guidelines for Reducing Impacts to Birds and
Bats from Wind Energy Development
DOE Energy Star cost calculator
US Forest Carbon Calculation Tool (CCT)
Carbon Online Estimator (COLE)
cVal- cost/benefit analysis for carbon exchanges
Carbon Management Evaluation Tool, Voluntary
Reporting (COMET-VR)
a. Water Supply Stress Index Model (WaSSI)
Energy Star appliances
FIA data
Continental US forests
Forest tracts
Continental US- ag and
rangelands
a. Continental US
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6, 7, 8
References
Networks and exchanges a. Southwest Climate Change Network
a. Southwest US
Clearinghouse
a. Climate Change Resource Center
a. US
Contact lists
a. RMRS directory
Databases
a. Biota Information System of New Mexico (BISON-M)
b. Wyoming Natural Diversity Database
c. NatureServe Explorer
a.
a.
b.
c.
Adaptation Options
a. Template for Assessing Climate Change Impacts and
Management Options (TACCIMO)
RMRS
New Mexico
Wyoming
Plants and animals of US and
Canada
a. Currently mostly Region 8 and
9
1, 4, 5
1, 4, 5, 6, 7,
8, 9, 10
4, 5
6, 7, 8, 9
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Education
a. Science Investi-gator: PNW science journal
b. Climate Challenge Game
c. Climate Change in the Great Plains webinar
a. Elementary school students
b. CO2 emissions, not 100%
accurate
c. Great Plains scientists and
managers
1, 5
Projections
Climate Projections
a. Climate Wizard
b. US drought monitor (current conditions & projections)
Species Distribution
Projections
a. Maxent for species distribution modeling
b. Climate Change Tree and Bird Atlases
Ecosystem Element
Projections
Collaborations
a. Global
b. All US
a. Species with known
distribution
b. Eastern US- 134 trees, 147
birds
3, 6, 7, 8
3, 6, 7, 8
a. Reefs at risk
a. Coral reefs globally
3, 6, 7, 8
a. Huachuca FireScape
a. SE Arizona public and
conservation lands
3, 4, 5, 7
a. Native plant nurseries and seed banks
b. Drought resistant plant breeding
c. Captive breeding facilities
a. US-limited coverage
b. Agricultural crops
c. Few endangered species
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Other
The Forest Service Climate Change Performance Scorecard, 2011 (version 1.3)
To be completed annually by each National Forest or Grassland (Unit).
Scorecard
Element
Unit Name
Organizational Capacity
1. Employee
Education
Are all employees provided with training on the basics of climate change,
impacts on forests and grasslands, and the Forest Service response? Are
resource specialists made aware of the potential contribution of their own
work to climate change response?
2. Designated
Climate
Change
Coordinators
Is at least one employee assigned to coordinate climate change activities
and be a resource for climate change questions and issues? Is this
employee provided with the training, time, and resources to make his/her
assignment successful?
3. Program
Guidance
Does the Unit have written guidance for progressively integrating climate
change considerations and activities into Unit-level operations?
Engagement
4. Science and
Management
Partnerships
Does the Unit actively engage with scientists and scientific organizations
to improve its ability to respond to climate change?
5. Other
Partnerships
Have climate change related considerations and activities been
incorporated into existing or new partnerships (other than science
partnerships)?
Adaptation
6. Assessing
Vulnerability
Has the Unit engaged in developing relevant information about the
vulnerability of key resources, such as human communities and ecosystem
elements, to the impacts of climate change?
7. Adaptation
Actions
Does the Unit conduct management actions that reduce the vulnerability of
resources and places to climate change?
8. Monitoring
Is monitoring being conducted to track climate change impacts and the
effectiveness of adaptation activities?
Mitigation and Sustainable Consumption
9. Carbon
Assessment
and
Stewardship
Does the Unit have a baseline assessment of carbon stocks and an
assessment of the influence of disturbance and management activities on
these stocks? Is the Unit integrating carbon stewardship with the
management of other benefits being provided by the Unit?
10. Sustainable
Operations
Is progress being made toward achieving sustainable operations
requirements to reduce the environmental footprint of the Agency?
Yes/No