This report summarizes the results from a climate change adaptation workshop focused on the Columbia Plateau landscape in eastern Washington and parts of Idaho and Oregon. The objective of the workshop was to collaborate with landscape managers to apply results from the Pacific Northwest climate change vulnerability assessment (PNWCCVA) to on-the-ground ecological management objectives. Specifically, we sought to address the following questions: 1) How can model results and datasets be applied to assist with management decisions?
Resources
LCCs have produced a wealth of informational documents, reports, fact sheets, webinars and more to help support resource managers in designing and delivering conservation at landscape scales.
Date posted: June 23, 2018
The urgency for drought resilience planning has never been greater. With rapid changes in land use and increasing impacts from climate change, communities need to determine ways to meet their drought planning goals. Montana is forging new ground to join agencies, resource managers and communities to plan for drought impacts and build drought resilience.
Date posted: June 23, 2018
The Roundtable on the Crown of the Continent seeks to enhance culture, community and conservation in the 18-million acre region surrounding Glacier and Waterton Lakes National Parks. For the last seven years, we have sponsored an annual conference celebrating the landscape and people of the region. For the last three years, we have hosted meetings for the Crown’s Tribes and First Nations.
Date posted: June 23, 2018
Final report describing "Core Habitat Identification and Fine Scale Habitat Use of Grizzly Bears in the US Northern Rockies and Southern Canada" project.
Date posted: June 23, 2018
A download link for the report and its appendices is below ("USFWS 2015 Assessing the Condition and Climate Resilience of Collaborative Conservation Priority Areas in the Columbia Plateau Ecoregion.pdf"). For those who don't need the appendices or who have a slow internet connection, a version with the report only is also provided ("USFWS 2015 Report only no appendices.pdf"). The scorecard appendix is also posted separately ("USFWS_2015_Appendix_A_PCA_Scorecards.pdf").
Date posted: June 23, 2018
We will develop an approach to identify fire refugia in Rocky Mountain ecosystems of the U.S. and Canada then test the function of refugia for biodiversity conservation under current and future climate/fire scenarios. Our products will be designed to inform decision-making in land/easement acquisition, identification of critical areas for maintaining landscape and process connectivity/permeability, and extension of the temporal context for spatial conservation decision making. The approach will be testable for transferability to other locations and ecosystems.
Date posted: June 23, 2018
Multi-species functional connectivity modelling approach using a suite of hypothetical, but realistic, species to look at the synoptic patters of connectivity for species across the CCE. These models use the resistant kernel modelling approach to understand the migration rates for each species at every location in the Crown of the Continent. By providing a comprehensive look at connectivity over the CCE, this work offers managers important information on the ecology of the region needed to make collaborative and appropriate management decisions.
Date posted: June 23, 2018
This map package shows the priority areas agreed upon by the ALI on 2/3/2014 (Map A-11 in the report "Arid Lands Initiative. 2014. Spatial Conservation Priorities in the Columbia Plateau Ecoregion: Methods and data used to identify collaborative conservation priority areas for the Arid Lands Initiative.")
Date posted: June 23, 2018
Ecological regions denote areas of general similarity in ecosystems and in the type, quality, and quantity of environmental resources. They are designed to serve as a spatial framework for the research, assessment, management, and monitoring of ecosystems and ecosystem components.
Date posted: June 23, 2018
Additional reports describing key findings for 13 case studies (including 11 species, a vegetation system, and a region). These reports are provided as appendices to the overview report, and are intended to act as stand-alone resources.
Date posted: June 23, 2018
Water is essential to our health, economy and quality of life. A scarcity of water has always characterized life in the West, and with increasing demands and limited supplies, smart and efficient water use is key. One answer is to develop conservation and drought mitigation strategies that start on the ground with full community participation and integrate high level tools available from state and federal partners.
Date posted: June 23, 2018
We have completed an array of high-resolution simulations of present and future climate over Western North America (WNA) and Eastern North America (ENA) by dynamically downscaling global climate simulations using a regional climate model, RegCM3. The simulations are intended to provide long time series of internally consistent surface and atmospheric variables for use in climate-related research.
Date posted: June 23, 2018
The “We Need the Needles: Coordinating Action to Conserve 5-Needle Pine in the Crown of the Continent” workshop was held at the Crown Managers Partnership 16th Annual Forum in Fernie, British Columbia from May 15-17, 2016. This workshop was the fourth in a series of workshops organized by the Crown Adaptation Partnership (CAP), and was co-sponsored by the Whitebark Pine Ecosystem Foundation (U.S.) and the Whitebark Pine Ecosystem Foundation of Canada.
Date posted: June 23, 2018
Taking action on climate change adaptation in the Crown of the Continent: Developing science-based strategies for a shared landscape
Date posted: June 23, 2018
The Washington Connected Landscapes project has two-parts, and additional elements based on
prior funding cycles (GNLCC FY10–FY 12):
Part I. Informing Connectivity Connectivity Conservation Action under Current and Future
Climates for the British Columbia-Washington Transboundary Region.
Conduct Transboundary Connectivity Analyses for the Okanagan-Kettle subregion and
share results.
Identify transboundary climate-connectivity priorities.
Part II. Testing Assumptions of Model Predictions in the Columbia Plateau Ecoregion.
Date posted: June 23, 2018
The five fracture zones contained in this layer are: Highway 97 North, Highway 97 Central, Highway 97 South, Highway 3 East, and Highway 3 West.
Date posted: June 23, 2018
Slideshow
Date posted: June 23, 2018
We have completed an array of high-resolution simulations of present and future climate over Western North America (WNA) and Eastern North America (ENA) by dynamically downscaling global climate simulations using a regional climate model, RegCM3. The simulations are intended to provide long time series of internally consistent surface and atmospheric variables for use in climate-related research.
Date posted: June 23, 2018
The challenge of managing for invasive species creates an opportunity for the GNLCC to provide leadership on landscape scale stressors where there is a need for coordination of planning and on the ground activities. Currently, to the best of our knowledge, the north-western part of the North American continent remains free of quagga and zebra mussels. Infestation of aquatic systems in the GNLCC by quagga and zebra mussels would be economically, socially and environmentally devastating.
Date posted: June 23, 2018
Slideshow
Date posted: June 23, 2018
We have completed an array of high-resolution simulations of present and future climate over Western North America (WNA) and Eastern North America (ENA) by dynamically downscaling global climate simulations using a regional climate model, RegCM3. The simulations are intended to provide long time series of internally consistent surface and atmospheric variables for use in climate-related research.
Date posted: June 23, 2018
We have completed an array of high-resolution simulations of present and future climate over Western North America (WNA) and Eastern North America (ENA) by dynamically downscaling global climate simulations using a regional climate model, RegCM3. The simulations are intended to provide long time series of internally consistent surface and atmospheric variables for use in climate-related research.
Date posted: June 23, 2018
We have completed an array of high-resolution simulations of present and future climate over Western North America (WNA) and Eastern North America (ENA) by dynamically downscaling global climate simulations using a regional climate model, RegCM3. The simulations are intended to provide long time series of internally consistent surface and atmospheric variables for use in climate-related research.
Date posted: June 23, 2018
Five Needle Pine Database Scoping Document
Date posted: June 23, 2018
This poster details some of the work done on the Human Modification project and was delivered as partial fulfillment of the 2014 ESRI Canada GIS Scholarship Award
Date posted: June 23, 2018
We have completed an array of high-resolution simulations of present and future climate over Western North America (WNA) and Eastern North America (ENA) by dynamically downscaling global climate simulations using a regional climate model, RegCM3. The simulations are intended to provide long time series of internally consistent surface and atmospheric variables for use in climate-related research.
Date posted: June 23, 2018
We have completed an array of high-resolution simulations of present and future climate over Western North America (WNA) and Eastern North America (ENA) by dynamically downscaling global climate simulations using a regional climate model, RegCM3. The simulations are intended to provide long time series of internally consistent surface and atmospheric variables for use in climate-related research.
Date posted: June 23, 2018
This report documents the data-discovery and assessment of the available GIS datasets for the Crown of the Continent Ecosystem (CCE), and is part of an on-going collaborative project between the National Parks Service (NPS) Rocky Mountain Network (ROMN), the University of Calgary (UofC), the Great Northern Landscape Conservation Cooperative (LCC), and the Crown Managers Partnership (CMP).
Date posted: June 23, 2018
The White House Council for Environmental Quality has identified two national watersheds to pilot large-scale drought resiliency implementation. The Missouri Headwaters Basin within the GNLCC region and High Divide landscape is one of these national demonstration areas, and the GNLCC can advance its collective mission with this opportunity.
Date posted: June 23, 2018
These data represent a land facet classification created for the Pacific Northwest Duke Landscape Resilience project.
Date posted: June 23, 2018
We have completed an array of high-resolution simulations of present and future climate over Western North America (WNA) and Eastern North America (ENA) by dynamically downscaling global climate simulations using a regional climate model, RegCM3. The simulations are intended to provide long time series of internally consistent surface and atmospheric variables for use in climate-related research.
Date posted: June 23, 2018
Editing Whitebark and Limber Pine Model Whitepaper
Date posted: June 23, 2018
The project will establish contact with interested parties in each tribe or first nation within the Crown of the Continent to collect information on all relevant activities and research regarding climate and adaptive management within each tribal nation. We will coordinate a meeting of all interested tribal contacts and coordinate tribal activities with other efforts in the Crown including the Crown Managers’ Partnership, the Crown of the Continent Conservation Initiative, and the Crown Roundtable Adaptive Management Initiative.
Date posted: June 23, 2018
We will develop an approach to identify fire refugia in Rocky Mountain ecosystems of the U.S. and Canada then test the function of refugia for biodiversity conservation under current and future climate/fire scenarios. Our products will be designed to inform decision-making in land/easement acquisition, identification of critical areas for maintaining landscape and process connectivity/permeability, and extension of the temporal context for spatial conservation decision making. The approach will be testable for transferability to other locations and ecosystems.
Date posted: June 23, 2018
Report describing the grizzly bear occupancy modelling effort undertaken by the Crown Managers Partnership in 2012-2013
Date posted: June 23, 2018
We have completed an array of high-resolution simulations of present and future climate over Western North America (WNA) and Eastern North America (ENA) by dynamically downscaling global climate simulations using a regional climate model, RegCM3. The simulations are intended to provide long time series of internally consistent surface and atmospheric variables for use in climate-related research.
Date posted: June 23, 2018
Dispersal can strongly influence the demographic and evolutionary trajectory of populations. For many species, little is known about dispersal, despite its importance to conservation. The Greater Sage-Grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) is a species of conservation concern that ranges across 11 western U.S. states and 2 Canadian provinces. To investigate dispersal patterns among spring breeding congregations, we examined a 21-locus microsatellite DNA dataset of 3,244 Greater Sage-Grouse sampled from 763 leks throughout Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, and South Dakota, USA, across 7 yr.
Date posted: June 23, 2018
We have completed an array of high-resolution simulations of present and future climate over Western North America (WNA) and Eastern North America (ENA) by dynamically downscaling global climate simulations using a regional climate model, RegCM3. The simulations are intended to provide long time series of internally consistent surface and atmospheric variables for use in climate-related research.
Date posted: June 23, 2018
We have completed an array of high-resolution simulations of present and future climate over Western North America (WNA) and Eastern North America (ENA) by dynamically downscaling global climate simulations using a regional climate model, RegCM3. The simulations are intended to provide long time series of internally consistent surface and atmospheric variables for use in climate-related research.
Date posted: June 23, 2018
Crown Adaptation Partnership Five Needle Pine Database Scoping Presentation
Date posted: June 23, 2018
Habitat concentration areas (HCAs) represent large patches of low resistance pixels that are not fragmented by strong barriers.HCAs are defined as significant habitat areas that are expected or known to be important for focal species based on survey data or habitat association modeling (WHCWG 2012).
Date posted: June 23, 2018
The Arid Lands Initiative (ALI) and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) collaborated to assess the Columbia Plateau Ecoregion and identify priority conservation areas. The members of the ALI/FWS partnership developed this document to present the methods and data used to assess and identify collaborative conservation priority areas.
Date posted: June 23, 2018
This report was prepared and delivered as partial fulfillment of the 2014 Esri Canada GIS Scholarship Award.
Date posted: June 23, 2018