Integrating climate considerations into grazing management programs in national parks

Final Project Report
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Abstract

The National Park Service (NPS) is responsible for managing livestock grazing in nearly 100 parks, and several park grazing management planning efforts are currently underway. However, there is a recognized need to update grazing management practices to be responsive and adaptive to future climate change. As a step toward developing a process to address this need, this project worked with Dinosaur National Monument to consider climate change in its grazing management planning process. In this project, we convened researchers, managers, subject-matter experts, and climate change adaptation specialists through a participatory climate change scenario planning workshop to develop and apply a small set of challenging, plausible, relevant, and divergent scenarios that qualitatively assessed how grazing resources and management may be affected under climate change.
Publication type Report
Publication Subtype Other Government Series
Title Integrating climate considerations into grazing management programs in national parks
Series title Final Project Report
Year Published 2022
Language English
Publisher North Central Climate Adaptation Center
Contributing office(s) North Central Climate Adaptation Science Center
Description 9 p.
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