Book Description
"Climate-related variability in rainfall, temperature, and extreme weather (e.g., drought, flood, unseasonal frost) pose significant challenges to working land (i.e., range, forest, and agricultural) managers across the southeastern United States. These and other unpredictable stressors are exacerbated by increasing human pressures to natural landscapes, including urbanization, population growth, and land use change. The USDA established the Southeast Regional Climate Hub (SERCH) to better understand and address this combination of environmental and human pressures across the Southeast through a combination of research, outreach, and extension to land managers. The mission of SERCH is S2to increase working land resilience to climate related stress across the southeastern U.S., serving as the leading source of adaptation tools and information in support of State and Federal extension, and private consultants who directly work with land managers.S3.