1. Weathering the Weird Weather Overview of Issues & Options and Group Experiences Quivira Coalition 2012 New Mexico Watershed Forum Juniper Hill Center for Sustainable Agriculture, Las Vegas, NM

5. This Workshop’s Focus  Process of Planning & Management How? When? Where? With/for whom? …are we preparing for and adapting to drought?  Raising each other’s awareness of drought projections, impacts, and adaptation responses

6. Projections of Change uncertainty extremes hotter less water

7. What Concerns & Uncertainty Do You Face? Self-Assessment Exercise: a.What are the most critical areas of concern regarding drought for your watershed, land, business, and livelihood? b.What are the most critical areas of uncertainty you face that require more study and ongoing learning efforts?

8. Getting Prepared Preparing = Increasing awareness, rethinking, analyzing consequences, planning, revising, retooling Keeping options open Re-assessing and reducing risks Conservation, saving, and substitutions Reducing exposure, redirecting/capturing energy Shifting one’s usual practices

9. Adapting Adaptation = Changes you make based on preparation  Resistance = insulation, creating protective layers  Resilience = more flexible, self-healing, and able to bounce back after an impact  Transformation = changing in order to adjust

10. Adaptive Learning observation collaboration trial & error prioritization

11. Contact Us: Quivira Coalition (Mollie Walton) mwalton@quiviracoalition.org, 505-820-2544 Ecotone (Jan-Willem Jansens) jwjansens@gmail.com, 505-470-2531 mwalton@quiviracoalition.org jwjansens@gmail.com We thank the following sponsors and partners for their support: NMED Surface Water Quality Bureau Sierra y Llanos Land & Cattle Company, LCC Pritzlaff Ranch/Biophilia Foundation Hermit’s Peak Watershed Alliance Tierra y Montes Soil & Water Conservation District Bob Lineback and Kent Reid (NM Forest & Watershed Health Institute)