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Climate in the Crown

Land managers and for Climate Change in the Crown of the ic things happen in the Crown region – administrators actively engaged in sce-
Continent Ecosystem.”
warming, wildires, pest infestations – nario planning for climate change, even
stakeholders discuss As a result of climate change, the so it is something that can’t be missed,” as the iconic Exit Glacier receded from
Crown of the Continent, a region of said Hansen, who lives in Bainbridge Is- view. Melting of the massive ice low
how to better prepare
the Rocky Mountains covering parts land, Wash. “Everyone has a conscious- looded the main visitor road, which had
for climate change on of Montana, Alberta and British Co- ness of it. We refer to that as the irst never looded before.
lumbia, faces more severe wildire sea- step. Awareness.”
The response to the lood cost the
Crown of the Continent
sons, drought and drier winters, wetter And while there’s no dearth of re- park $400,000, one of the few examples
springs and falls, invasive species and search on the efects of climate change of on-the-ground responses to climate
By TRISTAN SCOTT of the Beacon
pest infestation, and increased pressure on the Crown, the region is lagging be- change.
by humans on one of the most biological- hind in terms of on-the-ground land But Hansen said managers and

A warming world is bringing change ly diverse ecosystems in North America.
management, conference attendees stakeholders in the Crown are receptive
to the Crown of the Continent, both eco- Lara Hansen, executive director of agreed.
to adaptive scenario planning, mainly
logically and economically, and land the climate change think tank EcoAd- That could be due in part to the sheer because those who live here are passion-
managers must learn how to adapt to apt, focuses her work on incorporating size and complexity of the issue, she ate about the place.
unpredictable scenarios if the region is the reality of global warming into the said, which can act as a paralyzing agent.
Because the 28,000-square-mile re-
to sustain itself.
daily practice of conservation and re- “People inherently don’t like chance, gion straddles the landscapes of Mon-
Everyone attending last week’s 2014 source management.
because they in turn have to learn to tana, British Columbia and Alberta,
Crown Managers Partnership forum During her presentation at the change in response to that change,” she Hansen stressed the importance of the

agreed on that premise – the challeng- three-day forum in Missoula, she spoke said. “A lot of land managers and com- two nations’ collaborative eforts to pro-
es related to climate change are immi- about climate-based scenario planning, munity planners have had no training tect the transboundary area, and look
nent – but few had a clear idea what that which is a tool for managing lands into in their career to get to the position that toward the future.
change might look like, or how regional an uncertain future.
they are in today, so moving forward in “You have really engaged stakehold-
land managers should prepare for cli- “One of the few things we know a new management direction is a chal- er groups and you actually have a trans-
mate-related scenarios.
about the future is that we don’t know lenge.”
boundary conversation going on across
Representatives of roughly 40 state what to expect,” she said.
An exception to that rule is Glacier the border. As species move back and

and federal agencies, universities, con- Ideally, the world should strive National Park Superintendent Jef Mow, forth, that is really one of the things that
servation groups and other non-govern- to slow the rate and extent of climate who also attended the forum.
becomes important,” she said, noting
ment organizations attended the three- change while dealing with the efects Mow was the previous superinten- that the Crown established the irst In-
day workshop on climate change man- that are already underway, she said.
dent at Kenai Fjords National Park in ternational Peace Park ever.
agement strategies, called “Managing
“You have had some pretty dramat-
south central Alaska, where park service
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