For years, few land trusts understood their important role in ensuring natural and human communities could adapt to climate change. To empower conservation practitioners and mobilize protection of critical climate-resilient lands, the Open Space Institute (OSI) launched the Resilient Landscapes Initiative (RLI) in 2012. In the years since, the RLI has helped to translate emerging climate-resilience science to the land trust community, and rally land trusts of all sizes to conserve target lands.
A five-year retrospective of the Open Space Institute’s Climate Resilient Landscape Initiative in Northern New England is available here.