What is a “toolkit approach” to managing for climate?
* A: Because situations, issues, and concerns across western national forest are so different, there is no single solution to climate change for management. Meeting the diverse challenges that climate change is imposing on national forest environments requires many approaches. Further, some issues need to be addressed urgently whereas others are longer-term concerns—these require different tools and strategies for planning. In some cases quantitative planning and analytical models (climate and climate impacts models) need to be used; in other cases; conceptual processes (e.g., based on uncertainty) will be favored. Case studies and demonstrations will also become useful for considering alternative strategies. Collectively these strategies compose a toolkit from which the manager can choose the best approach to fit the situation at hand (Millar et al. 2007) .
