News release: “As part of the Department of the Interior’s commitment to building a coordinated strategy to respond to the impacts of climate change on the nation’s natural resources, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today releases its final strategic plan that will guide the agency’s efforts to respond to the unprecedented threat posed by global warming. The plan, titled Rising to the Urgent Challenge: Strategic Plan for Responding to Accelerating Climate Change, provides a framework within which the Service will work as part of the conservation community to help ensure the sustainability of fish, wildlife, plants and habitats in the face of accelerating climate change. It is an integral part of an overarching Department of the Interior (DOI) strategy establishing a framework through which Interior bureaus will coordinate climate change science and resource management plans and actions.”