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Guide offers resources for states to integrate climate science into SWAP updates

A new report from The Northeast Climate Science Center outlines numerous processes, tools, and potential partnerships that can help state natural resource managers integrate climate science into the 10-year updates of wildlife actions plans, and includes several projects supported by the North Atlantic LCC.

On the heels of the two-year anniversary of President Obama's Climate Action Plan, the Northeast Climate Science Center has released a resource designed to support meaningful climate action by providing specific guidance for Northeast states to address climate-related management issues in state wildlife actions plans (SWAPs).


"Integrating Climate Change into the State Wildlife Action Plans" synthesizes what is known and what remains uncertain about climate change and its impacts in the region, with a particular focus on responses and vulnerabilities of regional species of greatest conservation need (RSGCN) and the habitats they depend upon.

The report also describes a range of climate change adaptation approaches, processes, tools, and potential partnerships that are available to state natural resource managers, an area in which the North Atlantic Landscape Conservation Cooperative provided key contributions.

"We were pleased to connect the Climate Science Center and the SWAP coordinators in the Northeast states and to help integrate LCC-sponsored work on climate change vulnerability assessments and conservation designs into the synthesis including the identification of Northeast Regional Conservation Opportunity Areas for SWAPs," explained North Atlantic LCC Coordinator Andrew Milliken.

The report features several projects supported by the North Atlantic LCC, including:


In addition to providing input for SWAP revisions, the objective of the report was to create a starting point for coordinated and collaborative science and adaptation.

“This effort to pull together information that can help states incorporate climate change into the updates of their Wildlife Action Plans is an important and timely contribution to advancing conservation across the region," said Milliken.

View the full report on the NECSC website, and read more about it why it matters on the US Fish and Wildlife Northeast Region blog.

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