@article {JRN55289, title = {Addressing air quality, agriculture, and climate change across the Southwest and Southern Plains: A roadmap for research, extension, and policy}, journal = {Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society}, volume = {102}, year = {2021}, month = {07/20/ 2021}, pages = {1394{\textendash}1401 }, abstract = {In February 2021, the USDA Southwest Climate Hub hosted the virtual event called the Southwest and Southern Plains Air Quality and Production Agriculture Science and Applications Workshop. The workshop follows the culmination of a nationwide effort assessing the current state of knowledge of air quality impacts on agricultural production, and vice versa. This benchmark effort necessitates further discussion, addressing remaining knowledge gaps and progress barriers with the expectation of a changing climate. The goal of the workshop was to identify these needs for the Southwest and southern Plains region and develop a roadmap of next steps intended for those in policy, research, and land management. Bringing focus to the Southwest and southern Plains summons local characteristics and capacities into perspective for impactful strategy development. Mid-century projections of intensifying droughts, seasonality shifts, and extreme weather events threaten to challenge the Southwest and southern Plains region. These climatic variations create new, and exacerbate current, air quality issues with implications for public well-being, agricultural production, and environmental health. Given the constancy of climate change projected for this region, greater attention must be given to the air quality{\textendash}agriculture relationship with climate change inherent to these explorations. The workshop convened professionals from health, agricultural, and environmental sectors, joining from 11 states and three countries (Canada, India, and the United States). Short presentations detailed the national assessment results, current mitigation options and resources available for the agricultural sector, current USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) air quality priorities, evolving indicators and models for emissions, and current measurement networks. Engagement activities throughout the workshop and a discussion session welcomed a flow of learning across all involved in the workshop, outlining a regional cross section of needs and priorities to be explored further.}, keywords = {Climate change; Agriculture; Air quality; Decision making; Policy; Societal impacts}, doi = {10.1175/BAMS-D-21-0088.1}, url = {files/bibliography/21-025.pdf}, author = {Maude Dinan and Emile H. Elias and Nicholas Webb and G. Zwicke and Timothy S. Dye and Skye Aney and Michael Brady and Joel R. Brown and Robert R. Dobos and David Dubois and Brandon Edwards and Sierra Heimel and Nicholas Luke and Caitlin M. Rottler and Caitriana Steele} } @article {JRN55334, title = {Making research relevant: Sharing climate change research with rangeland advisors to transform results into drought resilience}, journal = {Rangelands}, volume = {RALA-00311}, year = {2021}, month = {10/1/2021}, pages = {1-9}, abstract = {On the Ground {\textbullet}Public programs, strategies, and incentives to implement rangeland climate adaptation are more effective if they are tailored to local drought exposures, sensitivities, and adaptation opportunities. As such, local rangeland advisers who aid in climate adaptation are pivotal to the development of these resources. {\textbullet} We hosted a virtual workshop with rangeland advisors to share results from our climate vulnerability assessment, gain their insight on finding usability, and discuss visions for resource creation. {\textbullet}Climate adaptation resources should not follow a one-size-fits-all approach. Accommodating variety in resource development and outreach must consider multiple factors: variation in the ranching community, instability in the environment beyond climate, and rancher/manager identified variables in climate vulnerability assessment analyses.}, keywords = {climate change, co-ideation, engagement, rangelands, workshop}, doi = {10.1016/j.rala.2021.08.004}, url = {files/bibliography/21-046.pdf}, author = {Maude Dinan and Peter B. Adler and James A. Bradford and M. Brunson and Emile H. Elias and Andrew Felton and Christina Greene and J. James and Katharine N. Suding and Eric Thacker} } @proceedings {JRN55186, title = {Land of Encroachment: A multi-stakeholder assessment of brush control efforts in New Mexico}, year = {2020}, month = {02/16/2020}, address = {Denver, CO}, abstract = {

The social impacts of ecological restoration are not well understood.\  Yet, social processes are inherently at work while defining and prioritizing desirable landscape change and acceptable levels of intervention. We use a cultural ecosystem service (CES) framework to test the relevance of CES to grassland restoration by contrasting CES values between stakeholders engaged in restoration planning and management and those representing a wider suite of CES. Using semi-structured interviews (n=34), we engage partners in an ongoing restoration initiative (restoration partners) and others who derive cultural value from the landscape (other CES stakeholders) Interview results reveal that ecological change, such as enhanced wildlife habitat and vast, open spaces improve aesthetic value, recreation, and lifestyle CES. Second, management action such as longevity of interventions, restricted access to treatment areas, and federal policy associated with cattle forage hinder these CES as well. Lastly, social processes such as trust in management, attitudes towards stakeholder groups, and differences in perceptions of CES can hinder how people experience the environment. Inclusion of CES leads to holistic management strategies that cater to the entire socio-ecological system. We are currently exploring how stakeholders prioritize CES among other ecosystem services in our study area as well as the spatial distribution of values to see how management can best accommodate diverse perspectives across the landscape.

}, keywords = {assessment, brush control efforts, Land of Encroachment, multi-stakeholder, New Mexico}, author = {Maude Dinan and B. Cuttis} }