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  • Michael Rieger, FEMA Photo Library. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

    • Partnerships Promote Healthy Forests and Clean Water
    city of Asheville plan cover

  • city of Asheville

    • Planning for Climate Resilience—City of Asheville, North Carolina
    landscape of burnt sage

  • Kreig Rasmussen/USFS

    • Prescribed Burning on the Old Woman Plateau
    puget sound plan cover

  • Puget Sound Regional Council

    • Puget Sound Regional Council Climate Change and Resilience Guidance
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  • USFWS

    • Remote Sensing to Quantify Woodland Canopy Cover on the San Carlos Apache Reservation
    California Adaptation Planning Guide cover

  • The California Governor's Office of Emergency Services

    • Statewide Summary Report: California's Fourth Climate Change Assessment
    tallahassee community resilience plan cover
    Tallahassee Community Resilience Plan

  • A 2011 controlled burn in a tan oak gathering area creates defensible space below a nearby home while increasing the quality of the acorns by interrupting the life cycle of the acorn weevil. Image: Mid Klamath Watershed Council. Used with permission

    • The Karuk’s Innate Relationship with Fire: Adapting to Climate Change on the Klamath
    aerial view of post-fire landscape

  • Danelle Nance/BLM

    • The Land Treatment Exploration Tool and Adaptive Management Planning: Examples in Post-Fire Restoration
    forest floor

  • Angie Krall/USDA

    • Thinning, Prescribed Fire, and Managing Wildfire for Resource Benefit Reduces Severity of the Midnight Fire
    triangle region regional resilience assessment cover

  • Clockwise from top: Town of Cary Town of Chapel Hill David Hunt, Orange County City of Durham Higgins Spooner, “Downtown Raleigh NC at night” (2018)

    • Triangle Region, NC Regional Resilience Assessment
    USFWS National Fish, Wildlife, and Plants Climate Adaptation Strategy

  • Cover credits: Children in woods, Steve Hillebrand. Horse-eye jacks, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Painted Hills, Jane Pellicciotto. Pelican, George Andrejko/ Arizona Game and Fish Department

    • USFWS National Fish, Wildlife, and Plants Climate Adaptation Strategy
    Vermont-plan-cover
    Vermont Climate Action Plan

  • Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

    • Watching for Wind: An Effort to Get the Upper Hand on Wildfire
    logs being cut into firewood

  • Jacob Dahlin/USFS

    • Wood for Life, a Collaborative Partnership to Provide Wood to the Navajo Nation and Hopi Tribe