localize the global in nps
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Climate Change: Making the Global,
Local in National Parks.
Voyageurs National Park
Where are you?Where are our visitors?
www.nps.gov/subjects/climatechange
1. Human Activities are changing the Earth’s climate.
2. Climate change affects national parks and the treasures they protect.
3. The National Park Service is addressing climate change.
4. The choices you make today do make a difference.
Human activities… are changing the Earth’s climate.
Climate change affects… national parks and the treasures they protect.
Climate change at VOYA
Cold water fish in Interior lakes
Impacts on cultural resources
The National Park Service… is addressing climate change.Operations
Science Interpretation
Climate change initiatives at VOYA
• Climate change adaptation Planning for Northern Forest Ecosystems in the Great Lakes National Parks
• Biogeographic Patterns of Fish in Inland Lakes
Science
Operations
Interpretation
• CLIP tool: Inventory of carbon footprint• Identification of places to reduce energy
consumption• LED lighting at RLVC• Management discussions about adaptive
planning
• Creation of new interpretive products with science program
• Staff training in climate change interpretation• Development of new climate change interpretive
programs
The choices you make… today, do make a difference.
Work
Home
Now what?
“We won’t understand climate change through science and economics alone...We need to understand the ways in which we talk about climate change, the variety of myths we construct… through which we reveal to ourselves what climate change means to us.”
- Mike Hulme from “Why we Disagree about Climate
Change”
Speed Dating!!
• More facts do not equal better
communication
• Embrace controversy, but don’t pursue
conflict
• Don’t preach a sermon, tell a story
• Allow for, even actively seek, dialog and sharing
• Frame issue in relevant and appropriate
terms
• Remember agency position
1. Human Activities are changing the Earth’s Climate.
2. Climate change affects national parks and the treasures they protect.
3. The National Park Service is addressing climate change.
4. The choices you make today do make a difference.
Your challenge:Localizing the
global
"Experts say this global warming is serious, and they are predicting now that by the year 2050, we will be out of party ice."