Adapting to Climate Change: Updating our Approach to Land Protection and Site Management Decisions
Full-Day Workshop, Monday October 22, 9:30 a.m. - 4:30 a.m. $30
Kelly Watkinson, Land and Climate Program Manager, Land Trust Alliance
Leslie Brandt, PhD & Kristen Schmitt, Northern Institute of Applied Climate Science
Kimberly Hall, PhD – The Nature Conservancy
Carolyn Waldron – Land Trust Alliance
In this climate change adaptation workshop, we will present practical tools and approaches to help land managers evaluate climate resilience and vulnerability, and to update their management actions and stewardship plans to address climate change risks.
This workshop will include:
- A review of how to determine where landscapes might be more resilient to climate change, using TNC's online mapping tool and associated regional data sets.
- Group exercises on how to develop climate-informed management actions on conservation lands.
- A discussion of the challenges and opportunities participants see in communicating and addressing climate change risks to natural systems.
Best Management Practices for Pollinators
Full-Day Workshop, Monday October 22, 9:00 a.m. - 5 p.m. $50
Scott Hoffman Black, Executive Director, Xerces Society
Want to learn about how to manage nature areas for the benefit of pollinators? Join the Xerces Society for a full-day workshop focused on concepts to protect and enhance populations of pollinators in natural areas and other wild landscapes.
This workshop will provide an overview of the natural history and basic identification of pollinators and will focus on management practices that both support or may negatively affect pollinators and other beneficial insects. The course will detail how to provide food and shelter for pollinators and address management actions such as grazing, mowing, control burning and pesticide use. Course participants will conduct a field tour to see pollinator habitat and best management practices on site.
This course will increase the ability of land managers to:
- Identify bees and distinguish them from other insects
- Assess pollinator habitat and identify habitat deficiencies
- Identify ways of increasing and enhancing pollinator and other beneficial insect diversity
- Understand best management practices that minimize land-use impacts on pollinators
- Make recommendations on management practices and habitat restoration to conserve pollinators
