How is climate change affecting public lands and what are land management agencies doing about it? A team of scientists from the fields of sociology, watershed sciences, wildland resources, ecology, environment and society, mathematic, and outdoor recreation and tourism asked these questions in a recent Ecosphere study.
How is climate change affecting public lands and what are land management agencies doing about it? A team of scientists from the fields of sociology, watershed sciences, wildland resources, ecology, environment and society, mathematic, and outdoor recreation and tourism asked these questions in a recent Ecosphere study.
The team is part of Utah State University’s Climate Adaptation Science program, a National Science Foundation Research Traineeship program that focuses on training incoming career scientists on the science-management-policy nexus of climate change.
The group focused their research on lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). The BLM manages more public land than any other federal agency, over 248 million acres, an area over twice the size of California.
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