This innovative network continues to grow in response to management needs and water scarcity in the region. The DLN website ( ) hosts more information about network teams and activities. The network allows for collaboration and leveraging partner resources and strengths. Team activities include sharing case studies to help others learn from past experiences, hosting monthly drought briefings that introduce drought data and management tools, identifying information needed to support critical management decisions, innovating and sharing new and traditional drought monitoring technologies, and building drought resilience with indigenous communities. Since then, the network has grown into five organized teams focused on specific aspects of building drought resilience. In February 2020, a small group of CSOs and resource managers (RMs) met to envision the Southwest Drought Learning Network (DLN) to align with other existing efforts, but with the specific goal of enabling peer-to-peer learning to build resilience to future droughts. Climate service organizations (CSOs) supporting and observing these responses realized the utility of a network to share and document successful drought responses. Some of these responses made clear that proactive adaptive measures were fundamental to drought resilience.
The 2018 exceptional drought over the Colorado Plateau motivated unprecedented responses by individuals and organizations.
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