The Resist-Accept-Direct (RAD) Framework is a tool to address ecological transformation. This series of webinars serves to inform members of the US Fish and Wildlife Service about its utility and use, and will culminate in a workshop in December, 2022.

If you have any questions on this series, please email: jacob_greenfield@fws.gov

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RAD 7 - The Adaptation Handbook

Details:  The Adaptation Workbook is a five-step process for integrating climate change climate change
Climate change includes both global warming driven by human-induced emissions of greenhouse gases and the resulting large-scale shifts in weather patterns. Though there have been previous periods of climatic change, since the mid-20th century humans have had an unprecedented impact on Earth's climate system and caused change on a global scale.

Learn more about climate change considerations into natural resource management plans and projects. Over the past 10 years, the Adaptation Workbook has been applied to hundreds of projects across the country, including several within the National Wildlife Refuge System. This presentation will provide an overview of the Adaptation Workbook and its application to national wildlife refuges using several case study examples. It will also discuss how the Adaptation Workbook is being applied in other agencies and organizations and how it can be a complementary tool to other adaptation efforts such as the R-A-D framework. 



Presenter(s): Dr. Leslie Brandt, Supervisory Climate Adaptation Specialist, Office of Sustainability and Climate, USDA Forest Service



Date Recorded:  August 30, 2022

Duration:  32 Minutes

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RAD 6 - Capacity Building

Details: The Resist-Accept-Direct Framework (RAD) was designed to help natural resource managers expand the range of climate adaptation strategies considered. RAD is explicitly focused on the management response to climate change climate change
Climate change includes both global warming driven by human-induced emissions of greenhouse gases and the resulting large-scale shifts in weather patterns. Though there have been previous periods of climatic change, since the mid-20th century humans have had an unprecedented impact on Earth's climate system and caused change on a global scale.

Learn more about climate change and ecosystem transformation. To date, climate change adaptation strategies have been challenging to implement. This presentation builds on established methods and approaches, such as scenario planning and landscape conservation design, to create a recipe for implementation with 4 key ingredients. The Kenai Peninsula is used as a case study to illustrate how these ingredients can increase our capacity to effectively manage change on public lands.

Presenter(s) and Affiliations: Dr. Dawn Magness Landscape Ecologist Kenai National Wildlife Refuge

Date recorded: July 14, 2022

Duration:  43 minutes

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RAD 5 - Adaptive Management and RAD

Details:  Intensifying global change is propelling many ecosystems toward irreversible transformations. Natural resource managers face the complex task of conserving these important resources under unprecedented conditions and expanding uncertainty. This presentation places adaptive management within the Resist-Accept-Direct (RAD) framework to help navigate the unfamiliar terrain of stewarding transforming ecosystems with familiar techniques. This approach encourages decision-makers to revisit objectives, reassess ecological conditions and trajectories, and reconsider RAD strategies in an iterative process.



Presenter(s): Dr. Abby Lynch, USGS



Date Recorded:  June 8, 2022

Duration:  32 minutes

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RAD 4 - Adaptive Management 101

Details:  Dr. Ellie Brown of the USGS Science and Decisions Center will give a short introductory “Adaptive Management 101” webinar for the series on the Resist-Accept-Direct (RAD) framework. Ellie is the co-author of the DOI Adaptive Management Applications Guide. Her presentation will define and describe the components and operation of adaptive management, recapitulate some of the main points in the DOI Adaptive Management Technical and Applications Guides, and cover a couple of real-world examples.

Presenter(s):  Dr. Ellie Brown, USGS Science and Decisions Center



Recorded:  May 24, 2022

Duration:  34 minutes

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RAD 3 - The Social Implications of RAD

Details: In this third webinar in the series, two of the Service's social scientists speak on the social implications of the RAD Framework

Presenter(s): Kelly Guilbeau, Social Scientist, Southeast Region Danielle Ross-Winslow, Human Dimensions Branch

Recorded: April 12, 2022

Duration:  53 minutes

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RAD 2 - Ecological Transformation

Details: Ecological transformation challenges the traditional wildlife axiom that baseline conditions are stable with little change. Dr. Jackson will take a deeper dive into ET, using examples of how change has occurred through time at a single location. The difference between historic habitat shifts and today is the rate of that change. The RAD Framework provides management guidance for addressing ET that leads to on-the-ground action. Once clear frameworks are adopted, barriers to effective climate change climate change
Climate change includes both global warming driven by human-induced emissions of greenhouse gases and the resulting large-scale shifts in weather patterns. Though there have been previous periods of climatic change, since the mid-20th century humans have had an unprecedented impact on Earth's climate system and caused change on a global scale.

Learn more about climate change responses such as institutional inertia, cultural and political resistance, and budgetary constraints become more manageable.

Presenter(s): Dr. Stephen Jackson from the Southwest and South-Central Climate Adaptation Science Centers and the Department of Geosciences at University of Arizona.

Recorded: March 1, 2022

Duration: 39 minutes

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RAD 101

Details: The presenter gives a thorough introduction to the Resist-Accept-Direct (RAD) Framework.

Presenter: Scott Covington, Senior Ecologist, National Wildlife Refuge System

Recorded: January 27, 2022

Duration: 61 Minutes