The Department of Interior began a strategy to address climate change at the local and regional level. Twenty-one Landscape Conservation Cooperatives (LCC) have been created to coordinate landscape-level strategies for conserving public lands, wildlife, water and other natural resources. These in turn are connected to Regional Climate Change Response Centers to integrate climate change data.
The strategy brings together both land management and research to form integrated resource-management plans in the face of climate change and other stressors. Some of the LCC products and services will include computer models, projections of species’ ranges with climate change, assessments of species’ and landscapes’ vulnerability to climate change, and maps showing potential wildlife movement corridors as climate change forces migration.
Each of the LCCs are created for a specific landscape type, with boundaries that cross both state lines and international borders. You can read more about the strategy and the approach in the Secretarial Order No. 3289 that created this new approach.
