DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

CLIMATE ADAPTATION AND RESILIENCE PLAN

Progress Report

2022

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Secretary of the Interior
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Climate Adaptation and Resilience Plan

2022 Progress Report

Agency U.S. Department of the Interior

Climate Adaptation Official Joan Mooney, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary – Policy, Management

and Budget Exercising the Authority of the Assistant Secretary – Policy, 

Management and Budget

Agency Climate Adaptation 

Webpage

https://www.doi.gov/priorities/tackling-climate-crisis

SECTION 1: UPDATES ON PRIORITY ACTIONS

1. Priority action progress summary

Priority Action Progress

Action Current 

Status

Estimated date 

of completion

Brief Description of Progress

Promote Climate-Resilient 

Lands, Waters, and Cultural 

Resources

In progress Ongoing The Department of the Interior (Department or 

DOI) is currently implementing strategies to foster 

resilience on lands, waters, and cultural resources. 

The Department continues to increase its 

understanding of climate science and potential 

impacts as demonstrated in Section 1.2.

Advance Climate Equity In progress Ongoing The Department is currently implementing 

strategies to advance equity. The Department 

continues to increase its understanding of how 

climate change impacts disadvantaged 

communities, how the benefits of its investments 

flow toward disadvantaged communities, and how 

those investments might be adjusted to achieve the 

goals of the Justice40 Initiative as demonstrated in 

Section 1.2.

Transition to a Resilient 

Clean Energy Economy

In progress Ongoing The Department is currently implementing 

strategies to transition to a resilient clean energy 

economy. The Department continues to identify 

opportunities decarbonize the nation’s economy 

and help communities transition to a clean energy 

future as demonstrated in Section 1.2.

Support Tribal and Insular 

Community Resilience

In progress Ongoing The Department is currently implementing 

strategies to support Tribal and Insular community 

resilience. The Department continues to increase 

its understanding of climate science, how climate 

change impacts Tribal and Insular communities, 

and Indigenous Traditional and Ecological 

Knowledge as demonstrated in Section 1.2.

Empower the Next 

Generation of Conservation 

and Resilience Workers

In progress Ongoing The Department is currently implementing 

strategies to empower the next generation of 

conservation and resilience workers. The 

Department continues to explore opportunities to 

employ and train future leaders on public lands 

within existing appropriations, the Infrastructure 

Investment and Jobs Act (Bipartisan Infrastructure 

Law), and the Great American Outdoors Act of 

2020 as demonstrated in Section 1.2.
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2. Priority Action Progress Examples

Action Example 1 Example 2

Promote 

ClimateResilient 

Lands, Waters, 

and Cultural 

Resources

The Department uses funding provided through 

the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to strengthen 

the Nation’s resilience to climate change. In

Fiscal Year (FY) 2022, the Department provided 

over $68 million to fund 125 projects with 

Ecosystem Restoration Program dollars that 

advance climate adaptation and contribute to 

ecosystem resilience. As part of the America the 

Beautiful Challenge, the Department is 

contributing $375 million to conservation and 

restoration projects that improve ecosystem and 

community resilience to climate-related threats.

The National Park Service (NPS) released Planning for 

a Changing Climate to guide planners and managers in 

developing robust climate change adaptation strategies 

as a routine part of park planning and decisions. This 

guidance helps promote climate-resilient lands, waters,

and cultural resources across the full range of NPS 

planning efforts. 

Advance 

Climate Equity

In 2022, the Department invested $46 million 

from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and FY 

2022 appropriations in Tribal communities to 

address the unique impacts of climate change in 

Indigenous communities. The funds also 

increased support for community-led relocation 

effort of Tribes, dedicating $130 million from 

2022-2026 through the Bureau of Indian Affairs

(BIA) efforts. The funding is available for 

projects and initiatives that address and 

strengthen climate resilience and adaptation; 

ocean and coastal management; communitydriven relocation and protect-in-place activities; 

and internships and youth engagement.

The Department is leveraging its resources and 

Bipartisan Infrastructure Law funding to invest in rural 

and Tribal communities adversely affected by both 

climate change and pollution. In 2022, the Department 

invested $725 million in funding to 22 states and the 

Navajo Nation to create good-paying union jobs and 

catalyze economic opportunity by reclaiming abandoned 

mine lands (AML). The AML funding will address 

abandoned mines that are leaking methane—a key 

contributor to climate change. A total of $11.3 billion in 

AML funding will be allocated and distributed over 15 

years to states and Tribes to protect the environment and 

invest in disadvantaged communities.

Transition to a 

Resilient 

Clean Energy 

Economy

The Department announced a new offshore wind 

leasing strategy, which includes potentially 

holding up to seven new offshore wind lease sales 

by 2025. The Bureau of Ocean Energy 

Management (BOEM) held two of those sales in 

January (New York Bight) and May (Carolina 

Long Bay) 2022. This strategy provides two 

crucial ingredients for success: (1) more certainty 

for industry and (2) transparency for our 

stakeholders and ocean users.

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is working to 

facilitate 25 gigawatts of renewable energy on public 

lands by 2025. In 2022, BLM released a policy to help 

screen and prioritize proposed solar and wind projects 

on public lands. The policy, an Instruction 

Memorandum entitled “Initial Screening and 

Prioritization for Solar and Wind Energy Applications 

and Nominations/ Expressions of Interests,” will help 

accelerate clean energy development and conserve 

America’s most valuable natural and cultural resources.

Support Tribal 

and Insular 

Community 

Resilience

The Department hosted five virtual listening 

sessions for Tribal Nations between October and

December 2021 focused on climate change and 

barriers to accessing discretionary grants. This 

effort aligned with the implementation of 

Executive Order 13985, entitled “Advancing 

Racial Equity and Support for Underserved 

Communities Through the Federal Government.”

The BOEM is working with the Udall Foundation's 

National Center on Environmental Conflict Resolution 

to stand up Tribal working groups and develop new 

Tribal Cultural Landscape assessments near areas off the 

U.S. West Coast where leasing activities may occur.

Empower the 

Next 

Generation of 

Conservation 

and Resilience 

Workers

The BIA and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service 

(USFWS) collaborate with Federal, Tribal, and 

non-governmental organizations to offer an 

experiential, youth-driven conservation 

leadership training for Native high school and 

college-aged youth. The program’s mission is to 

develop future conservation leaders with the 

skills, knowledge, and tools to address 

environmental change and conservation 

challenges to better serve their schools and home 

communities. 

NPS’s Scientists in Parks program places students and 

young professionals in park-defined internship positions 

between 12 and 52 weeks in length to address natural 

resource management issues, including climate change. 

Interns benefit from meaningful professional 

development programming and mentorship, fostering 

life-long connections to national parks. In FY 2021, 213 

interns were placed in 117 park units nationwide, 

approximately 70 of which focused on climate change.
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SECTION 2: UPDATES ON OTHER INITIAL PLAN TOPICS

1. Climate-Risk Reduction

Protecting the Department’s natural, cultural, and built infrastructure is critical to the Department’s

mission. The Department’s real property inventory is diverse and includes office buildings, visitor

centers, schools, museums, scientific laboratories, dams, water delivery systems, fish hatcheries, roads,

and trails. Many Department assets are vulnerable to climate-related hazards, including extreme weather

events, floods, wildfire, and storm surges. In some cases, these assets are historic and include cultural

resources that are irreplaceable due to their locations and construction materials.

Application of a structured method for assessing operating risk to climate-related hazards varies

throughout the Department. The Department’s Office of Emergency Management and the U.S.

Geological Survey (USGS) have partnered to establish the Strategic Hazard Identification and Risk

Assessment (SHIRA) Project. The SHIRA Project provides data, tools, and training exclusively for the

Department for personnel to improve planning for realistic threats to Department assets, resources, and

people. SHIRA strives to:

• Improve understanding of hazard-related risks posed to assets, resources, and people;

• Determine the data and tool needs to enable effective risk planning;

• Identify realistic threats and commonalities to enable multi-hazard planning;

• Curate and deliver the best available hazards and asset data;

• Characterize and effectively communicate the hazard exposure of assets;

• Develop tools to support unit and regional risk planning; and

• Build a risk community of practice to share best practices and to leverage limited resources.

The NPS’s Addressing Climate Change and Natural Hazards Handbook guides national park personnel 

in planning and designing facilities that accommodate existing and projected climate change and other 

natural hazards. The NPS prepared vulnerability assessments for infrastructure in the southeastern coastal 

parks to identify exposure and sensitivity to sea level rise and storm surge. The USFWS is beginning to 

implement a Rapid Vulnerability and Risk Assessment Methodology for USFWS-managed infrastructure.

The BIA’s 2022 Annual Awards Program Request for Proposals includes funding for implementation for 

relocation, managed retreat, or protect-in-place actions, climate adaptation planning, and implementation 

for climate adaptation strategies. The Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) is working with water 

management partners to develop guidance on how to mainstream climate change into water and 

hydropower management.

The Department has not developed a method for assessing fiscal risk exposure due to climate change; 

however, DOI Bureaus are taking proactive measures to reduce that exposure. The NPS developed a 

facility investment strategy that specifically directs project proponents to consider and include climate 

adaptation. NPS units must consider risks based on the facility location and any need to incorporate 

sustainable design and construction when rehabilitating. If the unit moves forward with recapitalization, it

must incorporate climate resilient infrastructure resulting in improvements to facilities or operations that 

prepare for and adapt to changing climate conditions. As demonstrated in the Wildfire Risk Five-Year, 

Monitoring, Maintenance, and Treatment Plan, the Department is implementing fuel treatments to reduce 

wildfire risks and is identifying additional priority treatment areas. The Office of Wildland Fire (OWF) is 

using funding to further develop a Wildfire Risk Geospatial Mitigation Planning Tool that will help 

identify shared priorities and work collaboratively with multiple partners and stakeholders to address 

wildfire risk across landscapes.
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2. Climate Vulnerability Assessments

Climate change vulnerability assessments

present vulnerability as the difference 

between the adaptive capacity of a resource 

and the potential impact of climate change 

upon it. To assess vulnerabilities associated 

with the impact of climate change, 

consideration of both the resource’s 

sensitivity to change and the exposure to 

change are necessary. Because the

Department’s vulnerabilities vary across its Bureaus’ and Offices’ mission areas and responsibilities, it

has not had an agency-wide, overarching vulnerability assessment. Instead, the Department’s Bureaus and

Offices develop vulnerability assessments based on their individual missions and responsibilities.

For each of the Climate Action Plan’s five vulnerability areas, DOI Bureaus and Offices are evaluating

impacts of climate change to demographic groups and/or resources. For example:

• The NPS requires managers to identify vulnerabilities to infrastructure on their managed

property. Forty NPS units have completed Resource Stewardship Strategies incorporating climate

change adaptation based on climate change projections, and eight more are currently underway.

Eighty parks receiving Great America Outdoors Act funding are using climate vulnerability

information in their infrastructure plans. The NPS completed a Strategic Analysis of Climate

Vulnerability of National Park Resources and Values that informs their goal of conducting

multiple vulnerability assessments (based on need and funds) at each of the 423 units.

• Reclamation has funded 27 basin studies assessing climate change impacts on water supplies,

demands, and strategies to adapt water management since 2009. These studies informed

Reclamation SECURE1reports to Congress on water reliability in the Western U.S.

The Department continues to explore opportunities to develop a department-wide, science-based, rapid 

vulnerability assessment framework to provide a more efficient mechanism to prepare assessments. 

3. Climate Literacy

The Department is dedicated to institutionalizing the use and consideration of climate science into its

decision-making process. The Department recognizes that climate science information is complicated and

voluminous. To ensure a climate-literate workforce that is empowered to bolster resilience and tackle the

climate crisis, the Department is working to provide its employees with consistent messaging and training

on best practices to make climate-informed decisions.

The Department developed a Climate Training Working Group (CTWG) with representation from

curriculum managers and training specialists across multiple bureaus. The CTWG’s goal is to produce:

• Department-wide, broad-scale climate change training for all Department employees; and

• Tailorable training frameworks that will inform natural resource decision-making with the most

current and appropriate climate science, intended for natural resource managers at the

Department.

To foster a culture of knowledge and practice, the Department hosts a monthly Policy Seminar Series

open to all Department employees and to the public. These seminars bring experts across the Department 

and beyond to highlight important work that is being done related directly to the Department’s mission, 

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Climate Change Vulnerabilities

• Vulnerability #1: People, Communities, and

Cultural Resources

• Vulnerability #2: Healthy Watersheds and Water

Supplies

• Vulnerability #3: Biodiversity and Ecosystems

• Vulnerability #4: Coastal and Marine Resources

• Vulnerability #5: Infrastructure and Facilities
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such as climate adaptation and resilience. Recent seminars have highlighted topics such as renewable 

energy on the Outer Continental Shelf, science and decision-making, wildfire and invasive species, and 

drought affecting the Colorado River. 

Additionally, individual Bureaus developed training programs to meet the needs of their workforce. 

• The BIA partners with the Institute of Tribal Environmental Professionals on courses, such as

Climate Change Adaptation 101, and in trainings, such as the Tribal Hazard Mitigation Planning

Cohort.

• Reclamation established a Reclamation Climate Change Community of Practice (CoP) to engage

all staff who have a role in addressing climate change and build climate resilience within

Reclamation’s mission.

• The BLM’s National Science Committee is set to launch a Lunch and Learn program as outreach

on climate science.

• The USFWS’s National Conservation Training Center (NCTC) currently offers seven climate

change courses and workshops open to all Department employees.

• The NPS compiled a suite of training opportunities that include baseline orientation to climate

change considerations suitable for all employees; and in-depth training for priority occupational

series that promote on-the ground climate change efforts.

• The OWF supports regional consortiums that provide an interface between fire-related climate

science and Federal, Tribal, state, and local land managers through the Joint Fire Science

Program.

• The USGS’s Climate Adaptation Science Centers (CASCs) developed trainings across their

networks and are working with NCTC to integrate climate adaptation into various aspects of their

climate training.

The Department recognizes that more work is needed to develop a climate-literate workforce. Not all DOI 

Bureaus have institutionalized the consistent use and consideration of climate science and adaptation into 

decisions. Additionally, there is a need to identify at a high-level what climate tools, data, and information

DOI Bureaus should use. Training for staff and decision-makers on the use of climate data and how to 

rely on the information to inform decision analyses will be important to ensure it is being considered 

throughout the Department.

4. Tribal and Insular Engagement

The Department is the primary Federal agency charged with carrying out the United States’ trust

responsibility to American Indian and Alaska Native people, maintaining the Nation-to-Nation

relationships with 574 federally recognized Indian Tribes and promoting and supporting Tribal selfdetermination. The Department also effectuates and implements the United States’ special legal

relationship with the Native Hawaiian people and has administrative responsibilities for coordinating

Federal policy for the communities in the Insular areas. One of the institutional approaches identified in

the Department’s Climate Action Plan is to consider traditional knowledge in decision-making. As part of

the Climate Adaptation and Resilience Plan implementation, the Department will continue to consider

trust obligations, Tribal Treaty Rights, and Indigenous Traditional Ecological Knowledge (ITEK).

The Department participates in the White House Council for Native American Affairs and is committed 

to protecting Tribal treaty rights in agency policymaking and regulatory processes. The Memorandum of 

Understanding (MOU), entitled “Interagency Coordination and Collaboration for the Protection of Tribal 

Treaty Rights and Reserved Rights,” affirms the Department’s commitment to enhancing interagency 

coordination and collaboration to protect treaty rights and to fully implement Federal Government treaty 

obligations. Tribal Nations entered into treaties, in part, to protect their way of life and inherent rights to 

natural resources of cultural, economic, and subsistence importance. It is the Department’s obligation to 
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honor these treaty rights and incorporate Tribal interests into decision-making, so that Tribal rights 

regarding everything from hunting and fishing to health care and education are protected.

NPS Policy Memo 14-02, entitled “Climate Change and Stewardship of Cultural Resources,” requires 

consultation with Native American and other traditionally associated people to inform the determination 

of significance of cultural resources as one element of developing climate adaption options. In FY 2021, 

NPS’s Native Nations and Climate Change Webinar Series brought together tribal representatives, agency 

tribal liaisons, and DOI Bureau leads to facilitate and inform collaborative climate adaptation efforts. 

The USGS is expanding a program that uses Alaska Natives’ monitoring of wild berry crops to track what 

is happening to the underlying permafrost. In April 2022, USGS published a Federal Register Notice for 

public comment on collecting narrative information regarding knowledge and observations of permafrost 

dynamics in communities in the Yukon River Basin in Alaska. Narrative information will be collected via 

semi-structured interviews with active land users in specific communities as well as relevant city, Tribal 

council, and village corporation staff. This information will allow for a greater understanding of 

permafrost dynamics in the region, inform future permafrost monitoring efforts, and be provided to 

communities for adaptation planning.

The Office of Insular Affairs (OIA) held a Territorial Climate and Infrastructure Workshop in March 

2022, which helped elevate climate and infrastructure support opportunities for U.S. Territories provided 

by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. The OIA is working closely with Federal agencies and other 

partners to help fund and implement Territorial projects eligible for this funding.

Other efforts to increase the consideration of ITEK include:

• The BIA’s 2022 Tribal Climate Resilience Awards Program includes an International ITEK

Virtual Exchange Category of Funding.

• The BLM is producing a series of short videos on how ITEK can be integrated into operations

and decision-making including authorities for the use of ITEK, application of cooperating agency

status, and resource inventory and monitoring.

• The BOEM hosted The Tribal Ocean Summit in 2022 to enable a mutual exchange of information

and learning to improve working relationships and meaningful consultation practices going

forward.

• The OWF is working with the Joint Fire Science Program, Tribes, and The Nature Conservancy

on an effort to increase the use of ITEK on Tribal and Bureau-managed lands.

5. Environmental Justice

The Department is integrating issues of environmental justice and inequity into decision-making to ensure

adaptation efforts are sustainable and account for the impacts on all populations, including low-income

communities, communities of color, Insular areas, and Tribes. For example, the Department is working to

make screening and analyzing Justice40 covered programs easier and more consistent by developing

geospatial approaches that may include creating a geographic information system environment that

leverages several screening tools and the Department-managed GeoPlatform. The Department is also

developing a toolkit on best practices for local community engagement to show how involving

communities and local students can help develop location specific knowledge and approaches. This effort

is in partnership with the NPS Stewardship Institute and leverages partnerships with Historically Black

Colleges and Universities, Tribal universities, and other academic institutions. The Department hosted its

first Environmental Justice Symposium in May 2022, which featured a session on climate justice with

special emphasis on urban, Tribal, and Insular communities. The symposium will contribute to a series of

new trainings and provide feedback on the Environmental Justice Strategic Goals and Action Plan.
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6. Partnerships

The Department is committed to working with other Federal agencies, Tribes, Insular areas, Native

Hawaiian people, States, local communities, and other public and private partners, domestically and

abroad, to prepare for and respond to the impacts of climate change. Because climate change spans

jurisdictions, borders, and mission areas, the Department is committed to growing these partnerships to

establish a whole-of-government approach to tackle the climate crisis.

For example, DOI Bureaus and Offices continue to implement the National Seed Strategy with the

Department of Agriculture, Department of Defense, as well as Tribes, States, and private sector partners

in the Plant Conservation Alliance. The National Seed Strategy was included in the Bipartisan

Infrastructure Law and will significantly increase the diversity and quantities of commercially available

native seed for resilient restoration across Federal and non-Federal lands.

Other current partnership efforts include:

• The Department is prioritizing invasive species management activities that boost climate

adaptation, resilience, and mitigation in collaboration with other Federal agencies, Tribes,

Territories, and States. This work includes a focus on wildfire and invasive species, islands and

invasive species, and a national early detection and rapid response framework.

• The USGS is assisting other bureaus with climate change scenario planning through its CASCs,

including a new Midwest CASC that focuses on climate impacts and adaptation science support

in the Great Lakes States.

• The OWF is participating in the Wildland Fire Mitigation and Management Commission to lead

additional interagency efforts and new partnerships to implement recommendations on wildfire

management and actions to mitigate and adapt to climate change.

• BIA’s Tribal Climate Resilience Program partnered with other Federal and State agencies,

educational institutions, and researchers for community-led relocation, managed retreat, and

protect in place pilot demonstration projects.

• Reclamation’s West-Wide Climate Risks Assessment Team will implement a climate adaptation

program to assess the risks and impacts from climate change to a range of activities, from the

delivery of water and power to maintaining ecological resilience. The Team includes members

from across Reclamation with technical expertise in climate change science and planning and

representatives from a host of Federal agencies whose missions have a nexus to water resources.

• The NPS issued Guidelines on Flood Adaptation for Rehabilitating Historic Buildings to inform

public and private property managers on how to adapt historic buildings to be more resilient to

flooding risk while also meeting the Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for Rehabilitation.

SECTION 3: NEW TOPICS FROM E.O. 14057

1. Policy Review

A review of agency policies to ensure climate-resilient investment and remove maladaptive policies and

programs is occurring throughout the Department. Several Departmental Manual chapters are under

review, including 522-DM-1 Adaptive Management, 523 DM-1 Climate Change Policy, 526 DM-1

Assessing Climate Impacts, 600 DM-6 Implementing Mitigation as the Landscape-scale, and 604_DM-1

Implementing Landscape-Level Approaches to Resource Management.

Bureau-level evaluations include:

• The USFWS is revising their manual chapter 056 FW 1 Climate Adaptation.

• The Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSMRE) reviewed and revised its

federally owned fleet vehicle procurement policies. In FY 2022, OSMRE will begin procuring
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Zero Emission Vehicles (ZEV) aligned with the Department’s overall ZEV procurement strategy, 

which includes annual targets to meet FY 2027 and FY 2035 ZEV targets.

• The BLM is reviewing IM 2021-036 Orphaned Well Identification, Prioritization, and Plugging

and Reclamation to be consistent with the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law direction to reduce

emissions of toxic substances and greenhouse gases from existing and abandoned infrastructure.

2. Climate Scenario Analysis

At present, climate data is developed and used at the Bureau-level and the Department has not provided

guidance on a consistent methodology for climate scenario analysis or for use of climate information such

as data, models, and timeframes in decision-making. DOI Bureaus would benefit from a department-wide

policy that identifies which future climate projections should be considered during decision-making. The

USGS develops datasets that present future projections of temperature and precipitation using a

combination of global climate models, emissions scenarios, downscaling techniques, and training data.

These downscaled datasets use smaller spatial scales, such as a single watershed, which can be better used

by regional and local stakeholders. These tools need to be broadly shared between DOI Bureaus which

will require the assistance and capacity to access these downscaled climate projections, model vegetation

and hydrology changes, and conduct analyses to inform decisions. Training for staff and decision-makers

on the use of that data and analyses will be important to ensure they are being used appropriately.

The Department is updating the policy entitled 526 DM-1 Assessing Climate Impacts, on the use of 

climate adaptation science approaches, including model and scenario outputs in management, regulatory 

and policy decisions. This will be accompanied by several actions including:

• A risk management framework that outlines approaches to incorporating climate futures into

management choice, focused on environmental analyses and planning decisions,

• A guidebook on approaches to using climate futures approaches (including model and scenario

output),

• An online resource that provides access to the latest climate futures science and information and

expertise to guide users in accessing information, and

• Training in use of climate data and information as part of a larger Department training effort.

Examples of how the Department is incorporating climate data and information into decision-making are 

outlined below:

• The USGS develops datasets that present future projections of temperature and precipitation

using a combination of global climate models, emissions scenarios, downscaling techniques, and

training data. These downscaled datasets use smaller spatial scales, such as a single watershed,

which can be better used by regional and local stakeholders.

• NPS’s 2021 guidance Planning for a Changing Climate describes a 6-step adaptation planning

cycle, including developing forward-looking goals that consider future climatic conditions and

considering more than one scenario of the future, with the goal of incorporating climate

adaptation into existing planning processes. The NPS’s Climate Change Scenario Planning

Showcase provides reports, guides, and examples of the use of climate projections in scenario

planning. The Climate Change Response Program also provides training for NPS staff and

partners. Along with partners, including USGS, NPS Climate Change Response Program staff has

co-authored several publications that advance the science and practice of incorporating climate

projections into decision-making.

• The USFWS is using the Resist-Accept-Direct (RAD) framework to respond to ecological

transformation, especially to new unexperienced conditions. RAD is a decision framework

applied across the landscape to respond to ecological transformation for the purpose of fish and

wildlife management. Management often incorporates two or three RAD elements rather than just
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one discrete use. For example, change might be resisted in the short-term (10-20 years) to provide 

habitat until it can be changed into a desired type. Change may need to be accepted in some 

locations due to environmental, economic, or social constraints, but then use the resist and direct 

option in other locations. 

• Reclamation is compiling FY 2022 case studies on how to best incorporate climate change

information into various types of decision-support efforts, including water resources planning,

ecosystem management, and dam safety. Results will inform guidance on operationalizing

climate change in decision-making throughout Reclamation’s mission.

Figure 1 identifies the flow of climate information and guidance through the Department.

Figure 1. Flow of Climate Information and Guidance in the Department of the Interior