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Coastal management and restoration
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Restore and protect natural shorelines: Use living shoreline techniques
Use threshold-based adaptive management: Incorporate ecological thresholds to guide coastal protection and restoration
Improve coastal resiliency: Conserve and create blue carbon sinks
Restore affected estuaries: Manage extensive crab herbivory
Restore affected estuaries: Reduce sediment pollution
Restore affected estuaries: Reduce nutrient pollution
Practice coastal stewardship: Protect coastal resources
Adapt or update municipal plans: Master Plans
Adapt or update municipal plans: Transportation Improvement Plans
Adapt or update municipal plans: Hazard Mitigation Plans
Practice responsible recreation: Use best methods for catch-and-release fishing
Practice responsible recreation: Follow best boating techniques
Maintain habitat connectivity: Restore tidally-driven rivers, estuarine, and marine habitats
Restore natural coastal buffers: Native vegetation buffers and plantings
Restore natural coastal buffers: Bioengineering for coastal banks
Create or amend local wetland bylaws: Beach migration and shoreline transitional areas
Restore natural coastal buffers: Beach and dune nourishment and restoration
Manage stormwater: Use rain barrels
Manage floodwater: Create a floodable park or open space
Support public engagement: Create an engagement strategy
Adapt or update municipal plans: Create a Climate Action Plan
Adapt or update municipal plans: Open Space Plans
Protect land: Strategic land protection
Restore habitat connectivity: Remove obsolete dams
Protect land: Protect land in perpetuity
Maintain habitat connectivity: Assessment of road-stream crossings
Maintain habitat connectivity: Large wildlife passage structures
Maintain habitat connectivity: Modify stream crossings to allow wildlife passage
Maintain habitat connectivity: Retrofit or replace culverts
Maintain habitat connectivity: Amphibian and reptile tunnels
Maintain habitat connectivity: Collect road crossing data
Ensure cool water temperatures: Protect and restore riparian areas
Communicate effectively about your work: Learn how to talk about climate change
Conservation restriction purposes: Consider climate change impacts
Promote drought and heat-tolerant species: Encourage species in northern and middle edge of range
Protect ecosystem diversity: Establish large connected conserved areas
Promote structural diversity: Retain biological legacies
Maintain diversity of native tree species: Restore native tree species
Promote structural diversity: Diversify tree age classes
Reduce wind and ice damage: Increase structural diversity of the forest
Preserve unique habitats: Establish forest patch reserves
Prioritize at-risk communities: Protect rare species
Promote drought and heat-tolerant species: Promote adapted trees in pitch pine - scrub oak forests
Promote drought and heat-tolerant species: Promote adapted trees in spruce-fir forests
Promote drought and heat-tolerant species: Promote adapted trees in oak/hickory forests
Promote drought and heat-tolerant species: Promote adapted trees in oak/pine forests
Promote drought and heat-tolerant species: Promote adapted trees in beech-birch-maple forests
Use current fire management best practices: Restore pitch pine woodlands
Manage herbivory to promote tree regeneration: Control deer/moose impacts
Prevent the introduction of invasive species: Monitor for invasive insects
Prevent the introduction of invasive species: Control invasive exotic plants
Maintain or improve the ability of forests to resist pests and pathogens: Increase species and structural diversity
Protect forest streams and wetlands: Maintain riparian and wetland buffers
Maintain or restore soil quality: Increase snags and logs
Maintain or restore soil quality: Limit recreational impacts
Maintain or restore soil quality: Protect soils during harvests
Learn from climate data: Explore regional downscaled climate data
Create or amend local wetland bylaws: Account for projected sea level rise
Keep forests as forests: Protect your land