Amber N. Runyon Kyra Clark-Wolf Wynne Emily Moss Imtiaz Rangwala Anthony Warren Ciocco Aparna Bamzai-Dodson Helen R. Sofaer Brian W. Miller Meagan Ford Oldfather 2025 <p><span>In a changing climate, resource management depends on anticipating changes and considering uncertainties. To facilitate effective decision making on public lands, we regionally summarized the magnitude and uncertainty of projected change in management-relevant climate variables for 332 national park units across the contiguous US. Temperature, frequency of extreme precipitation events, and drought exposure are all projected to increase within seven regions delineated in the US National Climate Assessment. In particular, the anticipated collective impacts of droughts and flooding events will lead to unique management challenges, including combinations of management actions that may seem inconsistent. Furthermore, uncertainty in the magnitude of change varied by region and climate variable considered, pointing to specific opportunities for prioritization, transferability, and innovation of climate adaptation regionally and at the park-unit scale.</span></p> application/pdf 10.1002/fee.2858 en Ecological Society of America Drought and deluge— Opportunities for climate-change adaptation in US national parks article