Climate Change Impacts on Fort Bragg, NC

Abstract

Current guidance requires that climatic change must be considered in the Army's Integrated Natural Resources Management Plan (INRMP), the goal of which is to ensure good stewardship of natural resources that is compatible with the military mission, and that prevents the net loss of the lands required to complete that mission. Military land managers deal with their lands in the context of the local ecosystem in which they reside. If that ecosystem changes, the land manager must determine how to care for those changing lands while still supporting the installations military mission. Consideration of local consequences of climate change must begin with a review of the local manifestations and implications of climate change. This document uses an installation-specific evaluation and anal-ysis of climate change forecasts for Fort Bragg, NC using currently available climate change data to provide a forecasting approach suitable for land-locked terrestrial Army installations.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 15, 2013
Accession Number
ADA589143

Entities

People

  • James D. Westervelt
  • Matthew Hiett
  • Robert C. Lozar

Organizations

  • Engineer Research and Development Center

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Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

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  • Birds
  • Climate Change
  • Ecosystems
  • Engineering
  • Engineers
  • Environment
  • Fungi
  • Habitats
  • Natural Resources
  • Standards
  • Test And Evaluation
  • United States
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Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

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  • Wetland-Land-Environmental Management.