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Adapt OKC plan screen capture
Adapt Oklahoma City, OK
a group of tree planters hiking

  • Photo attributed to U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Headquarters. Incorporated here under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license. No endorsement by licensor implied.

    • Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge/ Albemarle-Pamlico Peninsula Climate Adaptation Project

  • Still image of an aqueduct canal near Salinas, Puerto Rico, extracted from the FEMA video "Recharge Project: Aquifer Storage and Recovery Project in Salinas, Puerto Rico"

    • Aquifer Storage and Recovery: A Strategy for Long-Term Water Security in Puerto Rico
    land on the Red River Basin

  • Sean C. Emmons/USGS

    • Balancing Water Usage and Ecosystem Outcomes Under Drought and Climate Change Conditions
    charlotte flood risk assessment plan cover
    Charlotte, NC Flood Risk Assessment and Reduction Community Guidebook
    city of alexandria

  • Top: Buildings at Old Town (Unsplash, Ryan Ledbetter, 2021) Bottom, from left to right: Electric bus (DASH), construction, bikes and trolleys (City of Alexandria), and rooftop solar installation (Unsplash, Bill Mead, 2022)

    • City of Alexandria, Virginia Energy & Climate Change Action Plan
    clark county plan cover

  • Clark County, Nevada

    • Clark County, Nevada, Community Sustainability & Climate Action Plan
    chicago climate action plan cover

  • Ann Hilton Fisher

    • Climate Action Plan for the Chicago Region

  • large dry sink, GPS, NAD 27 310050.2 842133.1 Grady County, Georgia, cropped, by Alan Cressler, used with permission, via Flickr. https://www.flickr.com/photos/alan_cressler/1433048454/

    • Drought Response and Recovery Project for Water Utilities in Hogansville, GA
    Drought Response and Recovery Project for Water Utilities in Hays and Russell, KS
    Drought Response and Recovery Project for Water Utilities in Hays and Russell, KS
    Drought Response and Recovery Project for Water Utilities in North Marin Water District, CA
    Drought Response and Recovery Project for Water Utilities in North Marin Water District, CA
    Drought Response and Recovery Project for Water Utilities in Clinton, OK
    Drought Response and Recovery Project for Water Utilities in Clinton, OK
    river with mountains and trees

  • Photo attributed to Royalbroil. Incorporated here under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license. No endorsement by licensor implied.

    • U.S. Global Change Research Program

  • Sebago Lake by TheTurducken (stretched and cropped), CC BY 2.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/, via Flickr

    • Green or Gray? Choosing to Preserve Water Quality
    casco bay with boat

  • Photo attributed to Dirk Ingo Franke. Incorporated here under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license. No endorsement by licensor implied.

    • Incorporating Climate Change into the Casco Bay Estuary Partnership