Vulnerability Assessment and Adaptation Planning
The BMAP is currently working on vulnerability assessment and adaptation planning for the Blue Mountains Region. Scientists from the Pacific Northwest Research Station and Oregon State University, Pacific Northwest Region specialists, and national forest resource managers are currently working to assess exposure, sensitivity, and adaptive capacity of three primary resource sectors - hydrology and access, fisheries, and vegetation and disturbance. After the vulnerability assessment is complete mid-2014, workshops with resource managers in the three administrative units will help to identify adaptation options. Workshops will focus on strategies (general approaches) and tactics (on-the-ground actions) for adapting to climate change. Participants will also identify barriers and opportunities for implementing these strategies and tactics into current projects, management plans, partnerships, regulations, or policies. The vulnerability assessment and adaptation options will be described in a Forest Service general technical report.
Preliminary Vulnerability Assessments:
Webinar: "An overview of climate change impacts on stream flow for the Blue Mountains"
Click to sit in on the recording of this April 14 webinar (uses Adobe Connect -- video starts upon loading).
BMAP Workshop, April 22-24, 2014, La Grande, OR
 Wallowa-Whitman National Forest Supervisor John Laurence welcomes participants to the Blue Mountains Adaptation Partnership workshop. |
 Becky Kerns and John Kim discuss details of the vulnerability assessment for vegetation. |
Presentations (presenter indicated by *):
- Reshaping Nature: Climate Change
in the Blue Mountains and Beyond
Dave Peterson* - Climate Change and the Blue
Mountains
John Stevenson* & Kathie Dello - An overview of climate change
impacts on streamflow for the Blue Mountains
Gordon E. Grant*, Mohammad Safeeq, Sarah Lewis & C. Naomi Tague - Blue Mountains Adaptation Partnership: Hydrologic Projections
Charlie Luce* - BMAP Climate Change and Hydrology -- Management Perspectives
Kate Day* and Caty Clifton* - Blue Mountains Adaptation Partnership: Effects of Climate Change on Fisheries
Dona Horan, Kathy Ramsey, Deb Konnoff, John Chatel, Dan Isaak*, and Gordie Reeves - Effects of Climatic Variability and Change on Vegetation and Disturbance in the Blue Mountains
Becky Kerns, John Kim*, and Dave Peterson - MC2 (Dynamic Vegetation Model) Simulation of Blue Mtns Ecoregion, OR
John Kim, David Conklin, Becky Kerns*, Jessica Halofsky, G. Stephen (Bear) Pitts, Ray Drapek, Michelle Day
 Dan Isaak presents the vulnerability assessment for fisheries. |
 Workgroup members discuss adaptation options for the effects of climate change on riparian ecosystems. |
Dave Peterson gives a presentation on climate change effects in the Blue Mountains at a public session in La Grande, OR. |
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