The Fish and Wildlife Service is working
collaboratively with a host of climate researchers to develop an understanding
of the effects of climate change in the Pacific Northwest and what
it will take to manage fish and wildlife resources. Listed here are
links to up-to-date information, documents, and resources. Climate
change is a fast-growing topic of increasing interest and we
will update this page regularly.
Landscape Conservation Cooperatives
To emphasize strategic conservation on a landscape level, the Fish and Wildlife Service has developed a national geographic framework composed of 22 Geographic Areas for the Service and partners to plan and design conservation strategies at landscape scales. Landscape Conservation Cooperatives will be formal science-management partnerships that will provide science support for developing and implementing conservation strategies at landscape scales. The emphasis will be on biological planning, conservation design, research, and designing inventory and monitoring programs. Products developed by the Cooperatives will help inform field-based planning, decision-making for on-the-ground conservation efforts.
Learn more about Landscape Conservation Cooperatives in the Pacific Region.
Research
U.S. Geological Survey National Climate Change and Wildlife Science Center
USGS has secured funding through Congress research that will support the ability of federal and state agencies to manage wildlife in the face of a changing climate. Five proposals were selected to address high priority climate change effects on fish and wildlife. Read more>
Science Daily
Source for the Latest Research News
Reports
Global Climate Change: Impacts in the United States
Climate change is already having visible impacts in the United States. The choices we make now will determine the severity of its impacts in the future according to a new federal study assessing the current and anticipated domestic impacts of climate change.
Preliminary review of adaptation options for climate-sensitive ecosystems
and resources
2008
U.S. Climate Change Science Report
U.S. Climate Change Science Program
Recent postings and
upcoming developments
Climate Change Impacts on Columbia River Basin Fish and Wildlife
2007 Independent
Science Advisory Board Report
Agencies Should Develop Guidance for Addressing Effects on Federal
Land and Water Resources
2007 GAO Report
Websites
Climate
Change in the Pacific Northwest
USFWS Pacific Region Website
Resources and Forums Relating
to Climate Change
What
We're Doing About It
USFWS National Website
North American Environmental Atlas
Commission for Environmental Cooperation
Threats
to Birds: Global Climate Change
American Bird Conservancy
What You Can do about
Climate Change
Environmental Protection Agency
Intergovernmental
Panel
United Nations Environment Programme
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change
Workshops and Conferences
Upcoming
Hawai‘i in a Changing Climate: Ecological, Cultural, Economic and Policy Challenges and Solutions
July 28-30, 2009, in Honolulu, Hawaii
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Stephen H. Schneider, a noted climate change expert and member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Plenary Speakers: Dr. Pualani Kanakaole Kanahele, an internationally renowned cultural practitioner, scholar, teacher, and Hawaiian community leader; and Mr. Jon Jarvis, Director of the Pacific West Region of the National Park Service
Previous
Coastal Ecosystems of California, Oregon, and Washington
January 29-30, 2009 in San Francisco, California
Climate Change Impacts: Natural Resource Management in the Columbia
River Basin
June
2008 in Boise, Idaho
Climate Change in the Northwest: Tribal Perspectives
May
2008 in Seattle, Washington
Presentations
USDA Forest Service Pacific
Northwest Research Station>
Pacific
NW Global Exchange Research>
Video
USFWS Climate Change Video
See how the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is working with partners to reduce the impacts of climate change on fish, wildlife, plants and their habitats.
Education
Climate Change, Wildife and Wildlands Video A full 12 minute, high definition, engaging and highly informative video on climate change science and impacts on wildlife and their habitat in U.S., to be used in classrooms as an introduction to the topic or in Visitor Centers and in interpreter talks in informal educational settings.
Climate Change, Wildlife and Wildlands Toolkit This new version of the toolkit is designed for classroom teachers and informal educators in parks, refuges, forest lands, nature centers, zoos, aquariums, science centers, etc., and is aimed at the middle school grade level. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, in partnership with six other federal agencies (National Park Service, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, USDA/Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management), developed the kit to aid educators in teaching how climate change is affecting our nation’s wildlife and public lands, and how everyone can become “climate stewards.”
Take Action!
National Geographic
Green Guide for Every Day Living
Environmental Protection Agency
What You Can
do about Climate Change
Washington Department of Ecology
Shirnk Your Carbon Footprint
Other
Visionary Plan to
Protect Vast Canadian Boreal Forest
(July 2008)
Our Office's Personal
Commmitment
For 15 years, we at the Oregon Fish and Wildlife Office
have worked toward reducing our impact on the environment. From the
implementation of an extensive waste reduction and recycling program
in 1993, to the current activities sponsored by our Climate Change
Committee, we have established a commitment to minimizing the impacts
of our own actions. We take pride in the fact
that our office has received two notable awards for waste reduction,
recycling, and a green acquisition program: 1) the Department
of Interior Office of Environmental Policy and Compliance’s
Environmental Achievement Award in
2000, and 2) the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Facility/Office
Environmental Leader Award in 2007. By
changing various operations in our office, and encouraging our staff
to make helpful changes at home, we are striving, at a personal level,
to reduce our "footprint".
