North Carolina | Adaptation Workbook

North Carolina's Emerging Forest Threats: Management Options for Healthy Forests

Forest landowners are seeing increased pressure from threats like fire, insects, disease, extreme weather, and drought on their land and resources. The last decade has brought record droughts to North Carolina, increasing wildfires, expanding insect and plant invasions, and more intense hurricane and tornado events. However, there are forest management strategies that can be used to decrease the risk from these threats.

North Carolina's Emerging Forest Threats: Management Options for Healthy Forests

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Urban Forests & Climate

Forests are the most cost-effective tool to buffer North Carolina from the effects of climate change. Climate change will primarily bring unpredictable weather, with hotter hots and colder colds. Trees are one of the most effective ways to mitigate the impacts of climate change.

Urban Forests & Climate

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Forest Carbon Fact Sheet

Forests and other ecosystems act as carbon sinks, and they sequester carbon dioxide through plant growth, removing it from the atmosphere. The Forest Service is a leader in developing tools for carbon assessment, management, and forest carbon cycle science.

Forest Carbon Fact Sheet

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Climate Smart Land Network Bulletin Series

The Climate Smart Land Network (CSLN) provides forest landowners and managers with direct access to the forest and climate experts at Manomet, and the opportunity to benefit from other forest landowners in the Network. Bulletin series on climate change issues in forest management for forest landowners.

Climate Smart Land Network Bulletin Series

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The State of Climate Adaptation in Water Resources Management: Southeastern United States and U.S. Caribbean

EcoAdapt report is to provide a brief overview of key climate change impacts and a review of the prevalent work occurring on climate change adaptation in the Southeastern United States and Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI) comprise the U.S. Caribbean region. This report focuses on water resources.

Report: The State of Climate Adaptation in Water Resources Management: Southeas…

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Learning modules - Climate Change Primers

The USDA Forest Service has created comprehensive climate change education modules to help land managers better understand the basic climate change science, the effects of climate change on forest and grassland ecosystems, how we can respond to climate change with management and forest carbon science, policy, and management. Start here to learn about climate change, how it may influence land management, and what options are open to natural resource managers for responding to these changes.

USDA Climate Change Resource Center - Education

Learning module:Climate Change Science and Modeling

Learning module: Climate Change Effects on Forests and Grasslands

Learning module: Forest Carbon Science, Policy, and Management

Learning module:Responses to Climate Change

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EcoAdapt's Climate Adaptation Starter Kit

EcoAdapt's collection of various resources that can help practitioners navigate climate change vulnerability through to adaptation. The Adaptation Starter Kit is divided into six parts:

EcoAdapt's Climate Adaptation Starter Kit

Eco Adapt - Adaptation Case studies in various sectors

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Climate Adaptation Knowledge Exchange (CAKE)

The Climate Adaptation Knowledge Exchange (CAKE) is managed by EcoAdapt and aims to build a shared knowledge base for managing natural and built systems in the face of rapid climate change. Find Adaptation and Vulnerability Assessments and Reports, Case Studies and Tools to help assess climate change impacts relevant to the region and resource area that you work within.

Climate Adaptation Knowledge Exchange (CAKE)