8.2 Required 10-Year Comprehensive Review and Revision
recommendation to incorporate climate change during this revision process. Te 2015 WAP revision is in compliance with the requirement to conduct a comprehensive review and revision at an interval not to exceed 10 years. Using recommendations from various workshops, several committees and teams were organized and tasked with guiding the revision process. Te Revision Steering Committee, Technical Team, Taxa Teams, ad hoc Stakeholder Advisory Committees, and other special topic workgroups are key components, and their membership refects several agency and organization partners as well as private citizens (stakeholders). Te 2015 WAP revision was accomplished through the eforts of numerous individuals participating in meetings held statewide as well as various regional locations and virtual (technology-based) venues. A list of key members, participating agencies, and the structure of the committees and work- groups involved in the revision process and letters of support from partners are provided in Appendix C. 8.2 Required 10-Year Comprehensive Review and Revision North Carolina’s comprehensive review and revision began in 2009, when the WAP Stakeholders Workshop Steering Committee (Committee) was convened by the NC Wildlife Resources Commission (NCWRC or Commission). Te Committee was composed of mem- bers from federal and state agencies and partner organizations and was tasked with orga- nizing a forum for NCWRC and partners to strategically address climate change impacts to priority wildlife and habitats. A goal of the Committee was to incorporate the results into the Wildlife Action Plan. To achieve this goal, the Committee worked collaboratively with climate scientists and scientifc experts to develop the report “Understanding the impacts of climate change to fsh and wildlife in North Carolina” (DeWan et al. 2010) , which outlines likely impacts and provides recommendations for addressing them. An Executive Summary and the full report are available for download in PDF format from the WAP web- page: www.ncwildlife.org/plan. 8.2.1 Climate Change Workshop (2010) A two-day workshop organized by the Committee was held in September 2010 as an early step in starting the WAP revision process. Te workshop goals were to engage partners and stakeholders on the issue of potential climate change impacts to fsh and wildlife, to collect input on revision of the WAP, and to garner support for using the Plan as a framework for addressing climate change as it relates to fsh and wildlife.
Stakeholders were asked during breakout sessions to identify the top three climate change impacts to wildlife. Results from these sessions indicate that sea level rise, habitat changes
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