I will be delivering an update on the findings from the 2025 VT Climate Assessment Recreation & Tourism Chapter. The workshop will explain the goals of the Climate Assessment broadly and then dig into the findings in the Recreation & Tourism chapter to talk about the collaborative efforts it will take to continue providing sustainable recreation access into the future.

Learning Objectives:

1. Highlight any new findings from the previous VCA

2. Provided high quality science to decision makers

3. Be able to link a large report to a specific project

Presenters:

Kathryn Wrigley, Graduate Student, University of Vermont

Kathryn's academic background in ecology, conservation, forestry, and wildlife biology combined with her decade plus in recreation management have coalesced in a passion to more fully understand the intersection of people and protected areas. She is particularly interested in learning more about what drives human behavior in public natural spaces.