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Coconino National Forest Watershed Vulnerability Assessment, Southwest Region (R3)
Figure 22. Areas with highest exposure, resource value, and sensitivity for all water resource values combined
STEP 5 - Response and Recommendations for Making WVA Useful for Managers
The CNF sees the WVA results as a useful tool to help assess climate vulnerability of watersheds at
various scales from landscape and sixth-level HUC or finer. The WVA should help identify watershed
vulnerability to climate change necessary to identify and prioritize project-level proposal selection and
management.
Two management approaches and guidelines are recommended, which could integrate the WVA with the
Watershed Condition Framework (WCF) and projects outside the WCF. The first is the sixth HUC WCF
priority based management and the second is for projects not included in identified WCF sixth HUC
priority watersheds or restoration action plans (WRAPs).
153 Assessing the Vulnerability of Watersheds to Climate Change