摘要：Climate change and its associated consequences pose an increasing risk to public lands in the western UnitedStates. High-level mandates currently require federal agencies to begin planning for adaptation, but the extent to which thesemandates have resulted in policies being implemented that affect on the ground practices is unclear. To examine the status ofadaptation efforts, we conducted an original survey and semistructured interviews with land managers from the four majorfederal land management agencies in the U.S. states of Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming. The survey was designed to examinecurrent planning for adaptation on public lands and how it differs from prior planning, the major challenges facing land managersin this region, the major barriers preventing managers from planning for adaptation, and the major hurdles associated withimplementing adaptation plans. Our results show that some adaptation planning is currently taking place, but that few adaptationprojects have made it to the implementation phase. Overall, respondents considered lack of information at relevant scales, budgetconstraints, lack of specific agency direction, and lack of useful information to be the most common barriers to adaption planning.Budget constraints, lack of perceived importance to the public, and lack of public awareness or demand to take action werereported to be the biggest hurdles to implementation of adaptation projects. Agencies showed differing levels of adaptationactivity, and reported different barriers to adaptation and hurdles to implementation. Reasons for the differences and implicationsfor future research and policy are discussed
关键词：adaptation; climate change; decision making; federal agencies; public lands
