Overview

The workshop will be one-week including travel days on Monday and Friday. Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday will each engage key participants with workshop goals and objectives.

Primary focus of the workshop will be twelve high elevation park units in and near the Great Northern Landscape Conservation Cooperative (GNLCC), including parks within the Rocky Mountain, Greater Yellowstone, and Upper Columbia Basin Networks. Partner parks include: Big Hole National Battlefield; City of Rocks National Reserve; Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve; Nez Perce National Historical Park; Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area; Grand Teton National Park; John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Memorial Parkway; Yellowstone National Park; Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument; Glacier National Park; Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve; and Rocky Mountain National Park.

Key Partners will include US Geological Survey (Northern Rockies Climate Response Center), US Fish and Wildlife Service (GNLCC), US Forest Service (Climate Adaptation Coordinator and/or Monitoring Coordinator), National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON; likely Montana State University representative), and Northern Rockies Research Coordination Network (U of Montana/Dr. Robert Crabtree), and a representative from the Long Term Ecological Research program.