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</span><strong><span style="font-size:13.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">A Climate Adaptation Menu for North American Grasslands</span></strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#656565">
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efforts. These landscapes play a crucial role in maintaining biodiversity, sequestering carbon, preventing soil erosion, and regulating water cycles.<strong><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"> Approximately half of the original grasslands have
been lost</span></strong> due to a range of pressures, including agricultural expansion, energy development, woody plant encroachment, urban growth, and intentional afforestation. In response to these challenges,
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Summit</span></a></span></u><span style="font-size:13.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black"> on Tuesday April 8, 2025. NC CASC team members Imtiaz Rangwala, Climate Lead; Heather Yocum, Social Science Lead; and Ulyana Peña, Communications
Lead, attended the Science Summit to contribute their expertise to conversations around climate adaptation, stakeholder engagement, and the importance of co-produced science. CIRES events such as this one, and the upcoming CIRES Rendezvous, are important opportunities to
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<u><a href="https://url.usb.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/bIYDCYVDjwfkQlgBvF6sPfxnmcZ?domain=colorado.us20.list-manage.com" target="_blank"><span style="color:mediumblue">"Climate change impacts on introduced grass invasion in the Prairie Pothole Region of the United
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A recent paper examines how Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) can complement scientific approaches to environmental management. The paper is authored by a diverse group of Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars, including NC CASC's James Rattling Leaf,
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