U.S. Climate Resilience Toolkit launches new section for the Northern Great Plains

Native Prairie in East Central North Dakota boasts a variety of fauna. Credit: Rick Bohn / USFWS

 

The U.S. Climate Resilience Toolkit—built and maintained by CPO and partners—has launched a new Northern Great Plains Region section. The section features narratives, tools, case studies, and reports related to the impacts of climate change across the Northern Great Plains and information on how people can build resilience to them. Used with the Climate Resilience Toolkit’s Steps to Resilience, the new section can help communities and managers of agricultural and natural lands across the Northern Great Plains recognize their climate hazards, assess their vulnerabilities, and confront their climate risks. 

Content for the new section—which includes discussions about water, agriculture, ecosystems and biodiversity, recreation and tourism, and Indigenous peoples—was built upon vetted information from the Fourth National Climate Assessment and other high-level reports, with regional experts adding information from recent research. The section offers plain-language narratives about climate impacts that are already occurring and projected to continue across the region, and describes efforts to build resilience.

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