Webinar: Case Studies on Building Climate Change Resilience into Your Land Protection Strategies

Land trusts have a critical role to play in addressing climate change. We protect land for a variety of reasons: recreation, biodiversity, view sheds, water quality or community values. But does your land protection strategy consider climate change?

On Monday, May 2nd, 2016, 1:00 pm to 2:30 pm (EST), North Atlantic Landscape Conservation Cooperative (LCC) Science Delivery grantee Open Space Institute will present a webinar titled: “Case Studies on Building Climate Change Resilience into Your Land Protection Strategies” 

Follow this link to register.

The webinar will be moderated by OSI's Abby Weinberg who will be speaking with: Jeff Collins, Director of the Massachusetts Audubon Society’s Ecological Management Department; Andy Cutko, a licensed forester, has worked with the Maine Natural Areas Program since 2008; Sarah Wells is the Director of Land Protection at Mount Grace Land Conservation Trust and the Coordinator of the North Quabbin Regional Landscape Partnership in north-central Massachusetts; Karen Young Coordinator for the 10-partner Mount Agamenticus to the Sea Conservation Initiative (MtA2C) in southern York County, Maine.

This webinar will present short case studies showing how four different conservation organizations integrated climate resilience science into their respective conservation plans. Read more about the presenters and their projects here.