Assessing Ecosystem Sustainability and Vulnerability to Climate Change in the Lower Mississippi Valley

We are conducting research to assess the potential impacts of changing climate on the trust resources and endangered species -- as well as the sustainability and vulnerability of the ecosystems that support them -- in the Lower Mississippi Valley (LMV). One question we address is, “When most of the land is privately owned, how can conservation practices at the landscape-scale be implemented?” This is a continuation of our on-going efforts to examine more effective ways of integrating federal and state resource planning efforts that begin with different, but overlapping, geographically defined boundaries.