Big Sur Land Trust is Planning for Global Warming

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Adding the Impacts of Climate Change to a StrategicPlan: Big Sur Land Trust

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ShareThisKirsten Feifel [3]December 19, 2010

Donna Meyers [4]Manager/Director/[email protected] [5]

Big Sur Land Trust [6] 509 Hartnell St.Monterey, CA 93940 United States Phone: (831) 625-5523

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Project Summary / Overview

The Big Sur Land Trust has incorporated the potential effects of climate change into its program management and long-termstrategic conservation plan. Specifically, the Big Sur Land Trust staff is considering changes in fire regimes, stream flow, andimpacts to restoration projects. Currently, the Big Sur Land Trust conserves roughly 5,800 acres of land; they are working toanticipate the impacts climate change will have and preparing management strategies to address these expectations.

Project Background

The Big Sur Land Trust was founded in 1978 and has conserved roughly 5,800 acres of land in the geographic areas ofMonterey County on the Central Coast of California. With a staff size of 14, the Big Sur Land Trust works with private andpublic partners to conserve parcels of land. With its community partners, the Big Sur Land Trust targets natural systems thatsecure wildlife and wildlife corridors and safeguards against flood, fire, and the potential effects of climate change.
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Project Implementation

The Big Sur Land Trust began incorporating climate change impacts into its practices in 2007. Motivated by ongoing scientificresearch on the effects climate change may have in California, the land trust began to incorporate climate change informallyduring planning and staff meetings. Their current strategic conservation plan addresses climate change in a programmatic wayin relation to management of their fee lands for projections of increased fire intensi ty in California, reductions in stream flows for

their water rights, and in planning and implementation of restoration on their properties and in projects with other partnersespecially regarding invasive species, wetlands, and riparian habitats. They are working to anticipate changes in stream flow,fire intensity, and invasive species on their properties and preparing management plans to begin to address theseexpectations.

For one restoration project, the Big Sur Land Trust modeled and analyzed the impacts sea level rise would have on theirrestoration design plan. Their restoration plan for the Lower Carmel River Floodplain includes the removal of small levees andrestoration of historic floodplain and riparian and wetland habitat to enhance stream flow and the streams biological capacity.They also are including more corridors and connectivity analysis for movement of both habitat and species and not focusing onsingle species or habitat conservation.

Finally, they are working at the state level to ensure climate adaptation is adequately addressed in the new version of the StateWildlife Action Plan [33]. Staff participate on a statewide committee on adaptation for the update the Californias State Wildl ife

Action Plan.

Project Outcomes and Conclusions

Adapting lands to climate change will be a lifelong commitment; the Big Sur Land Trust is striving to incorporate the effects ofclimate change into all of its programs in order to be better prepared for an uncertain future.

Recommended Citation

Feifel, K. (2010). Adding the Impacts of Climate Change to a Strategic Plan: Big Sur Land Trust [Case study on a project of theBig Sur Land Trust]. Product of EcoAdapt's State of Adaptation Program [34] . Retrieved from CAKE: http://www.cakex.org/case-studies/2830 [35] (Last updated December 2010)

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