Who We Are
The Climate Adapted Restoration Network (CARN) is a group of restoration practitioners, researchers, tribal partners, native plant growers, community organizations, and public agencies working together toward a more climate-resilient future by sharing knowledge and collaborating on climate-adapted restoration practices and climate-adapted plant materials. This group is convened by natural resource scientists at Metro regional government.
We provide a forum to share ideas and resources, work on shared projects, and foster relationships across organizations and disciplines. We recognize that successful climate adaptation requires drawing from multiple ways of knowing, including Western science, Indigenous Traditional Ecological and Cultural Knowledge, practitioner experience, and community input. We recognize that our members bring diverse experiences, knowledge systems, and perspectives to this work. While we may not always agree, we are committed to respectful dialogue.
We meet in person twice a year to learn from emerging research, discuss restoration techniques and challenges, exchange lessons learned, and explore innovative approaches for building climate resilience in our restoration projects. We also have subcommittees working toward specific project goals.
Join Our Network
We welcome anyone working in or around ecological restoration with a mind for climate adaptation.
Join one of our meetings, explore our resources, and connect with us to help grow climate-resilient ecosystems.
To join our listserv and become a part of our network contact us here:
Past Meeting Materials
The Climate Adapted Restoration Network hosts in-person meetings twice each year. Meetings feature guest speakers who share relevant tools, emerging research, case studies, and lessons learned from climate adaptation projects from across the region. Following the presentations, we host discussion groups to foster relationship-building and knowledge-sharing, and then we conclude with committee meetings where members work together to advance collaborative projects and network initiatives.
Meeting Archive
May 27, 2026
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October 22, 2025
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April 25, 2025
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September 18, 2024
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Resources
Climate adaptation in the field of restoration is an emerging discipline. This page serves as a central hub for our network to share tools, guidance documents, research, and partner resources that support and inform climate adapted restoration in the Pacific Northwest.
Reach out to us if you have a tool or resource you want to share here.
This page is updated twice a year.
Climate Action
Oregon Climate Action Commission
Resources — Oregon Climate Action Commission
Oregon Climate Change Research Institute
Forest Adaptation Network – includes resources on assisted migration and regional trials
Oregon Climate Action Hub – an information hub about climate action opportunities at individual, community, organizational, and policy levels, with a focus on collective action
Climate change adaptation in Canada - Natural Resources Canada
Climate Plans
Friends of Tryon Creek Climate Assessment
City of Portland Climate Emergency Workplan
Metro Comprehensive Climate Action Plan
Status of Tribes and Climate Change Report: STACC - STACC, Volume 1 STACC - STACC, Volume 2
Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians Climate Change Program: ATNI Climate Resilience – Climate Impacts
Climate Adaptation Plan of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation: CTUIR - CAP Chapter One: Na k̓ʷałanáwštaymaša Celebrating CTUIR
Shoalwater Bay Indian Tribe Climate Resilience plan: Part-III-Climate-Resilience-Plan_Final-08132021.pdf
Puyallup Tribe of Indians Climate Change Impact Assessment and Adaptation Options: Puyallup-Climate-Change-Impact-Assessment_2016_July-13-v3-pagesV2-1.pdf
Climate Projections
Seedlot Selection Tool – use to find seed collection areas for future climate scenarios
Climate Mapping for Resilience and Adaptation – for projections by address for a variety of climate parameters
Future Climate Dashboard from Climate Toolbox – for evaluating how individual climate variables (e.g., fire danger, heat indices, summer temperatures, winter temperatures) are projected to change in future 30-year periods at a set location
Climate Mapper from Climate Toolbox – to see historical and future projections on climate information across the United States to assist with decisions related to agriculture, climate, fire conditions, and water
View future projections of Sea Level Rise and Coastal Flooding Impacts; an interactive map from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
Explore the Future Urban Climates web application for an approximate answer to the question ‘What will my city feel like in 60 years?”
Explore future climate scenarios for any county in the US with The Climate Explorer
University of Washington Climate Impacts Group
Rapid retreat of the Pacific Maritime Forest by Kral et. Al
American Society of Landscape Architects Oregon Climate and Biodiversity Action Hub
Cultural and Prescribed Burning
Rekindling the Practice of Cultural Burning: An Act of Climate Hope – resilience
Value of Cultural Burning in Forest Management with Gabe Sheoships
Prescribed fire: Why we burn | OSU Extension Service
ITECK (Indigenous Traditional Ecological and Cultural Knowledge)
Indigenous Traditional Ecological & Cultural Knowledge (ITECK) at Portland State University
Braiding Indigenous and Western Knowledge for Climate-Adapted Forests, OSU: BraidingSweetgrassReport.pdf
The Wise Path Forward | Home
“Heal the land, Heal the people”: A Conversation About Indigenizing Urban Natural Area Stewardship – The Nature of Cities
Mycorrhizae
Mycorrhizal allies: synergizing forest carbon and multifunctional restoration - ScienceDirect
Potential of mycorrhizal fungi in soil C sequestration under climate change scenario: current research and prospects | Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change | Springer Nature Link
Climate mismatches with mycorrhizal fungi slow forest range shifts Ectomycorrhizal fungi
Wildlife
Oregon State Wildlife Action Plan
ODFW Conservation, Global Climate Change