Climate Change Response Framework
The Climate Change Response Framework helps land managers consider how to integrate climate change into their planning and management. The framework helps bridge the gap between scientific research on climate change impacts and on-the-ground natural resource management. The Northern Institute of Applied Climate Science (NIACS) leads the Framework.
The Framework was designed as a model for collaborative climate change response across large and diverse landscapes, providing a broad approach that can be adjusted and applied to other locations and landscapes.
The hallmark of the Framework is the high level of cross-boundary collaboration throughout the forest sector, which is essential to coping with an issue that spans borders, disciplines, and perspectives. The Framework stretches across the boundaries of partners to invite participation of forestlands owned and managed by private individuals, forest industry, Tribes, state, local, and federal agencies. Framework activities also support the USDA Northern Forests Climate Hub, part of the national network of the USDA Regional Climate Hubs, and provides forest and ecosystem sector-specific resources in the Midwest and Northeast.
