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Welcome to the Climate-Informed HCP web site!

At a Climate Smart Conservation training in 2014 Dan Cox (USFWS) and Jennie Hoffman (Adaptation/Insight) got to talking about the need to step down the Climate Smart guidance for the HCP practitioners with whom Dan works. With some start-up funding from the North Pacific and Great Basin LCCs and some follow-on funding from USFWS Region 8 we created a series of “quick guides” and worksheets to help people integrate climate change into HCPs. We started with what HCP practitioners do, the decisions and analysis they make, and thought about how climate change might come into play.

• • If you’re just getting going, start with (no surprise) the “Start Here” page. It has a couple of graphics to help you figure out what level of climate change analysis is appropriate for a given HCP, along with an overview guide of what it means to do a climate-informed HCP.

  • If you’re ready to start your climate assessment, head to the “Worksheets” page under the "Start Here"

  • If you’re looking for overviews of specific topics—climate-informed reserve design or choosing and using climate information or species distribution models—we’ve got pages for those as well!

Questions or comments? Email Jennie@adaptationinsight.com

NOTE: This project was completed in 2016, and materials have not been updated since.