On February 5, 2014, USDA Secretary Vilsack announced the selection of seven “Regional Hubs for Risk Adaptation and Mitigation to Climate Changeâ€, to deliver science-based knowledge, practical information and program support to farmers, ranchers, forest landowners, and resource managers to support decision-making related to climate change. The Climate Hubs are needed to maintain and strengthen agricultural production, natural resource management, and rural economic development under increasing climate variability. The Climate Hubs will provide technical support to USDA agriculture and land management program delivery by offering tools, strategies and management options for climate change response. The Hubs will translate climate change projections into potential impacts on the agricultural and forestry sectors. Using this information, along with data on past trends, the Hubs will provide periodic regional assessments of risk and vulnerability in the agriculture and forestry sectors to help land managers better understand the potential direct and indirect impacts of a changing climate. The Hubs will provide outreach, education and extension to farmers, ranchers, forest landowners, and rural communities on science-based risk management through the land grant universities, Cooperative Extension, USDA service agencies, and public/private partnerships. The vision of the USDA Northern Plains Regional Climate Hub, which encompasses Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, North Dakota, South Dakota and Nebraska is: agricultural producers (farmers, ranchers and forest landowners) utilizing user-specific information, tools and management practices in enhanced decision making for adaptation strategies to weather variability for reduction of enterprise risk, increased resilience of working lands and enhancement of local communities.
Oral presentation and poster titles, abstracts, and authors from the Society for Range Management (SRM) Annual Meetings and Tradeshows, from 2013 forward.