Translating Climate-Smart Conservation Lesson Learned Across the California LCC

California LCC projects are demonstrating how lessons learned from development of climate-smart conservation strategies can be translated between geographies as distinctly different as alpine meadows of the Sierra Nevada Mountains and the benthos of the Pacific Ocean. Beginning in 2012, the California LCC supported a series of workshops with conservation partners in the Sierra Nevada Mountains to develop landscape scale vulnerability assessments and adaptation strategies. The adaptation strategies were developed by convening scientists with natural resource managers and directly assessing their needs. Results are directly informing actionable management by conservation partners for focal resources. In 2013, partners in the Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary were convened to replicate this method to help natural resource managers identify focal resources and develop adaptation strategies. Climate-smart conservation strategies for both the Sierra Nevada and the Gulf of the Farallones are being delivered to natural resource managers through site specific training and extensive material is available online at the California Climate Commons. In 2015, the California LCC will support the process in the forests of Southern California.