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WMI Team Member Sites:

• Northern Rocky Mountain Science Center Global Change Research Program -- A Focus on Mountain Ecosystems
• Western Ecological Research Center Sierra Nevada Global Change Research Program
• Fire & Mountain Ecology Lab Global Climate Change Research
• Glaciers Online: Glaciers of the American West

Other Sites:

• U.S. Forest Service Climate Change Resource Center (CCRC)
• USGS Office of Global Change
• USGS Climate and Land Use Change Research Program
• U.S. Global Change Research Program/U.S. Climate Change Science Program
  • globalchange.gov
  • usgcrp.gov
• National Park Service Climate Friendly Parks program
• Mountain Research Initiative
• The Consortium for Integrated Climate Research in Western Mountains (CIRMOUNT)
• Nitrogen News (Featuring WMI's Jill Baron)
  "Scientists say nitrogen pollution is the biggest global story that needs to be told."

Documents of Interest:

• Climate Change: Agencies Should Develop Guidance for Addressing the Effects on Federal Land and Water Resources, GAO-07-863, August 7, 2007
  

  Climate change has implications for the vast land and water resources managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Forest Service (FS), U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and National Park Service (NPS). These resources generally occur within four ecosystem types: coasts and oceans, forests, fresh waters, and grasslands and shrublands. GAO obtained experts' views on (1) the effects of climate change on federal resources and (2) the challenges managers face in addressing climate change effects on these resources. GAO held a workshop with the National Academies in which 54 scientists, economists, and federal resource managers participated, and conducted 4 case studies.

  Summary (html) | Highlights one-sheet (pdf) | Full report (pdf - 179 pages)