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Climate Change, Wildlife, and Wildlands
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A Toolkit for Teachers and InterpretersThe U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, in partnership with the National Park Service and with input from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, developed a kit for use when talking with the public about how climate change is affecting our nation's wildlife and public lands.
Individual components of the award-winning kit may be viewed and downloaded from this Web page. The kit also is available in hard copy (video, CD-ROM, printed trail cards, and a printed wheel card for calculating greenhouse gas emissions – all packaged into a binder). For more information on the kit, email Alan Cohn (Cohn.Alan@epa.gov or call 202.343.9814. If you want to order the kit, please call the National Service Center for Environmental Publications (NSCEP) at 1-800-490-9198.
The files that follow are in Adobe Acrobat 4.0 (*.pdf) format; the required Reader is available at no cost from Adobe Systems. 
Introductory Materials
- Introduction (220k pdf) – Overview of the toolkit and its contents.
- Getting Started (785k pdf) – Tips for using major components of the tookit.
Case Studies, Trail Talks, and Flash Cards
- Western Mountains and Plains
Covering Glacier and Yellowstone National Parks, the Olympic and Cascade mountain ranges, and the plains states.
– Case study (711K pdf)
– Trail talk (489K pdf)
– Flash card (701K pdf)
- Great Lakes and Upper Midwest
Covering Isle Royale and Voyageurs National Parks, and the entire Great Lakes region.
– Case study (2.3M pdf)
– Trail talk (519K pdf)
– Flash card (234K pdf)
- Chesapeake Bay and Assateague Island
Covering Chesapeake Bay and the mid-Atlantic coastal region
– Case study (724K pdf)
– Trail talk (528K pdf)
– Flash card (696K pdf)
- Everglades and South Florida
Covering Everglades National Park, Florida Bay, the Florida Keys, and the rest of south Florida.
– Case study (1.5M pdf)
– Trail talk (510K pdf)
– Flash card (155k pdf)
- Bibliography (3M pdf)
– Sources used in preparing the case studies.
Wheel Card Calculator
Interactive Activities
- Animals (258k pdf)
– Pictures for coloring, with explanatory text.
- Landscapes (363k pdf)
– Pictures for coloring, with explanatory text.
- Word Games (319k pdf)
– Games using climate change terms.
Trail Cards
- Trail cards (1.3M pdf)
– Printable cards of plants, animals, and ecosystems that may be affected by climate change
| Note | While most of the Kit is available on this page, if you want everything you should order the complete Climate Change, Wildlife and Wildlands toolkit; it's free. For more information on the kit, email Alan Cohn (Cohn.Alan@epa.gov or call 202.343.9814. If you want to order the kit, please call the National Service Center for Environmental Publications (NSCEP) at 1-800-490-9198. |
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