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Virginia’s Climate Modeling and Species Vulnerability Assessment

The National Wildlife Federation (NWF) is excited to announce the publication of Virginia’s Climate Modeling and Species Vulnerability Assessment: How Climate Data Can Inform Management and Conservation. This report is the culmination of over 4 years of effort by NWF, Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries (DGIF), Conservation Management Institute, and Kutztown University to downscale climate data for Virginia and use that in a species modeling effort to project how a selections of species (wildlife, fish, and plants) may change their distribution across the landscape based on climate change.

This report summarizes the modeling effort and focuses on the species projections and analyzing the results of the effort and what that may mean for conservation and management in the state. The report is attached and will be available shortly on line at http://www.nwf.org/What-We-Do/Energy-and-Climate/Climate-Smart-Conservation/Adaptation-Reports.aspx.

A companion report can be found at Conservation Management Institute’s website (http://cmi.vt.edu/Articles/art_ClimateChange.html) that focuses on the technical aspects of the effort.

Thank you to those of you that participated in our June 2012 workshops co-hosted by NWF, Virginia Conservation Network, and DGIF. Your input was extremely helpful in shaping the information in this report and in determining next steps, including development of a Climate Atlas that will house approximately 600 PDFs and shape files of a range of climate variables.

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