{"id":3480,"date":"2013-10-07T15:30:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-07T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/natural-resource-management-decision-making-under-climate-uncertainty-building-social-ecological-resilience-in-southwestern-colorado\/"},"modified":"2021-09-13T15:46:13","modified_gmt":"2021-09-13T15:46:13","slug":"natural-resource-management-decision-making-under-climate-uncertainty-building-social-ecological-resilience-in-southwestern-colorado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/2013\/10\/07\/natural-resource-management-decision-making-under-climate-uncertainty-building-social-ecological-resilience-in-southwestern-colorado\/","title":{"rendered":"Natural Resource Management Decision-Making under Climate Uncertainty: Building Social-Ecological Resilience in Southwestern Colorado"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"line-height: 12.0pt;margin-left: -4.5pt\">\nIn<br \/>\njoint collaboration with several other institutes, the Colorado Natural<br \/>\nHeritage Program was awarded a multi-year project from the North Central Climate Science Center (part of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usgs.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">U.S. Geological Survey<\/a>): \u201cNatural Resource<br \/>\nManagement Decision-Making under Climate Uncertainty: Building<br \/>\nSocial-Ecological Resilience in Southwestern Colorado.\u201d &nbsp;Ren\u00e9e Rondeau, Ecologist and Conservation<br \/>\nPlanner with the Colorado Natural Heritage Program is the CSU Principal<br \/>\nInvestigator and will be working closely with Jeffrey Morrisette and Dennis<br \/>\nOjima (North Central Climate Science Center), as well as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.umt.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">University of Montana<\/a>,<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.org\/en-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Nature Conservancy<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mountainstudies.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mountain Studies Institute<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usgs.gov\/centers\/fort\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">USGS-Fort Collins<\/a> over<br \/>\nthe next few years to facilitate climate change adaptation that contributes to<br \/>\nsocial-ecological resilience, ecosystem\/species conservation, and sustainable<br \/>\nhuman communities in Southwestern Colorado while focusing on the Gunnison Basin<br \/>\nand the San Juan Mountains.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"line-height: 12.0pt;margin-left: -4.5pt\">\n<\/div>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;text-align: center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6124\" src=\"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/11\/Gunnison_2003.jpg\" width=\"688\" height=\"462\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/11\/Gunnison_2003.jpg 688w, https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/11\/Gunnison_2003-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 688px) 100vw, 688px\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"background-color: white;color: #062b44;font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 11px;text-align: start\">Gunnison Basin landscape with East Beckwith Mountain in the background.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<div style=\"line-height: 12.0pt;margin-left: -4.5pt\">\n<span style=\"line-height: 12pt\">The group<br \/>\nwill develop a set of actionable and prioritized social\/ecological adaptation<br \/>\nstrategies for vulnerable ecosystems and species based on best available<br \/>\nscience.<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 12pt\">&nbsp; <\/span><span style=\"line-height: 12pt\">These adaptation strategies<br \/>\nwill incorporate the latest in climate science and must be useful and<br \/>\nmeaningful to natural resource managers and other stakeholders.<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 12pt\">&nbsp; <\/span><span style=\"line-height: 12pt\">The Gunnison and San Juan Basins ownership<br \/>\nand economies revolve around ranches and private industry that relies on<br \/>\nnatural resources, US Forest Service, US National Parks, Bureau of Land<br \/>\nManagement, and Tribal Lands, and will be integral in the success of this<br \/>\nproject.<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 12pt\">&nbsp; <\/span><span style=\"line-height: 12pt\">The frameworks that are<br \/>\ndeveloped for this project should be applicable to other western landscapes and<br \/>\nwill help guide communities in adapting to changes associated with a changing<br \/>\nclimate.<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 12pt\">&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"line-height: 12.0pt;margin-left: -4.5pt\">\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In joint collaboration with several other institutes, the Colorado Natural Heritage Program was awarded a multi-year project from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":6124,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29,7,21,3,22,32,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-climate-change","category-collaborations","category-conservation-planning","category-ecology","category-friends-and-partners","category-national-forest","category-national-parks","entry","override"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}