Model Forest Policy Program – Sustainable Forests for Water and Climate Protection

During 2010 six rural forested communities across the United States participated in Climate Solutions University: Forest and Water Strategies,  a unique climate adaptation training campus.  Through this rigorous stakeholder inclusive training, these communities conducted climate, forest, water, and economic risk assessments and synthesized their findings into unique climate adaptation plans.

This process was repeated in 2011 with a new set of six communities.  Now in 2012, four more rural forested communities are going through this intensive climate adaptation training.

Click here to review and download the plans from 2010 and 2011.

We train and support rural communities across the nation to build climate adaptation strategies via an on-line learning platform and live coaching.  Local strategies are built from thorough risk assessments of forest, water, and economic resources.

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Nineteen rural forested communities across the country have taken on the leadership role in climate adaptation.   From the northeastern seaboard to the western southwest, from the great lakes to the south Appalachian Mountains, these pioneering communities are models for the nation.

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Our instructors have spent their careers understanding complex climate, forest, and water relationships and how they relate to community economic and environmental sustainability.

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