@article{Creighton:338002,
      recid = {338002},
      author = {Creighton, Janean and et al. [+14] and Perry, Ann  [editor]},
      title = {Northwest Regional Climate Hub Assessment of Climate  Change Vulnerability and Adaptation and Mitigation  Strategies},
      address = {2015-08},
      number = {1962-2023-991},
      pages = {52},
      year = {2015},
      note = {The Northwest Climate Hub includes Alaska, Idaho, Oregon  and Washington.},
      abstract = {Excerpts:  Landscapes are integral to the culture and  economies of the Northwest region.  Natural and managed  lands and their resources are valued locally, regionally,  and nationally.  The importance of agriculture to the  region is reflected in efforts to conserve productive  lands; over the past 30 years, less land has been converted  from agriculture here than elsewhere in the United States.   Producers and landowners in the Northwestern United States  are already facing challenges from a changing climate and  increased weather variability, and are altering their  management decisions as a result.  Increasing climate  variability and new temperature and precipitation trends  directly affect agriculture and add to uncertainties about  ensuring food security and identifying cost-effective  practices for profitable agricultural production.   Maintaining agricultural production with an increasingly  variable climate requires maintaining consistent energy and  water supplies and remaining flexible in adapting crop  choices and crop management to future climate conditions.   Table 2 provides a summary of the Northwest’s regional  climate risks, effects, adaptation, and information needed.   Some of the most significant risks to forests in the  Northwest, including family-owned forests and woodlands,  include drought, increased wildfire events, increased  insect infestations, extreme weather events, and potential  species shifts.  Family forest landowners control over 60  percent of the private forest land in the United States.   In the Northwest, family-owned forests make up more than  6,900,000 acres; it is estimated that more than 200,000  families each own between 5 and 10,000 acres in Oregon,  Washington, Idaho and Alaska.  Vulnerabilities by forest  type are provided below.  Different forest types are  vulnerable to climate change in different ways, so,  adaptation strategies will vary by region and forest type.  Vulnerabilities will be more severe in 2100 than in 2050.  .},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/338002},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.338002},
}