Resources

The Rio Grande/Río Bravo is the lifeline of the arid region that stretches across the southern United States and Mexico, and supplying drinking water for more that 6 million people, including numerous Native American tribes, and irrigating about 2 million acres of land. The river also forms about 1,250 miles of the international border between the United State and Mexico from El Paso/Ciudad Juarez to the Gulf of Mexico.

This webinar provides an overview of the Eastern Mojave Landscape Conservation design effort to develop indicators that will best guide future management actions and track long term ecosystem health across the Eastern Mojave. The webinar also provides instructions on how you can join the discussion on indicators through a virtual meeting in your web browser. This meeting will be open for discussion through February 15, 2018. 

Webinar date: Dec 7, 2017

Speaker: James J. Roberts, U.S. Geological Survey, Colorado Water Science Center, Fort Collins, CO

The Alaska Center for Conservation Science (ACCS) at the University of Alaska Anchorage, in partnership with the Northwest Boreal LCC, embarked on a project to map and quantify the human footprint across interior Alaska and northwestern Canada.

The Northwest Boreal LCC is pleased to announce the launch of the Northwest Boreal Science and Management Research Tool. This webinar discusses how users can explore thousands of curated scholarly articles, state and federal resource reports, land management plans, and more. Each entry includes geographic information about the area of study, allowing users to draw a box on a map to narrow searches to information directly related to a specific region in Alaska, the Yukon, British Columbia, and Northwest Territories.

The Northwest Boreal LCC (NWB LCC) envisions a dynamic landscape that maintains functioning, resilient boreal ecosystems, and associated cultural resources. To support this vision, the NWB LCC partnered with the BEACONs Project to implement a new approach to conservation planning, including the identification of ecological benchmarks to support implementation of active adaptive management.

Webinar date: Nov 9, 2017

Speaker: Miguel Villarreal, U.S. Geological Survey, Western Geographic Science Center
Co-authors: Eric Waller and Travis Poitras, U.S. Geological Survey, Western Geographic Science Center
Michael Duniway and Travis Nauman, U.S. Geological Survey-Southwest Biological Science Center

Over the past five years, the Great Basin LCC has supported more than 35 projects, helped to coordinate Great Basin Consortium events and brought partners from across the basin together.
 

GCPO LCC staff created this GCPO LCC Legacy Report in fall 2017 to summarize the work of the LCC over the last 7 years.  This Legacy Report captures our significant accomplishments and milestone achievements and highlights the history our partnership’s development and evolution. The document also provides a synopsis of projects that are in progress as of October 2017 and scheduled to be completed in 2018/19.  It also identifies important unfinished business of the GCPO LCC.

Shaped by geologic events and agricultural practices, the wetlands in the arid Columbia Plateau, which stretches from interior British Columbia to eastern Washington and Oregon, are highly beneficial to people and working lands. These “wetland ecosystems” store water, recharge groundwater, provide habitat for fish and wildlife, and much more.
 

The EPA's Hypoxia Task Force includes federal and state agencies and the tribes. Federal agencies include those with responsibilities over activities in the Mississippi River and its basin, and in the Gulf of Mexico. The role of the Task Force is to provide executive level direction and support for coordinating the actions of participating organizations working on nutrient management within the Mississippi River/Gulf of Mexico Watershed. The Task Force has designated members of a Coordinating Committee, and solicits information from interested stakeholders.

This presentation was delivered by Molly Cross of the Wildlife Conservation Society, to the Southern Rockies LCC Four Corners and Upper Rio Grande Adaptation Forums on August 29 and September 6, 2017.

Conservation planning is riddled with uncertainties, from biophysical factors such as climate change and natural disasters to socioeconomic variables, particularly political regimes and funding cycles. Strategies are often based on current trends or forecasts; however, this approach can fail to capture the full range of possible outcomes. This can lead to plans and conservation designs that only address one set of future conditions, which could rapidly become obsolete in the face of unexpected changes.

The Pacific Islands offer a number of contrasts with continental North America that affect the development of LCDs.  The Pacific Islands Climate Change Cooperative encompasses a huge ocean area peppered with small, unique islands.  Geographical features like island scale and the land-sea interaction, biological features like endemism and invasive species, and human factors such as institutional capacity and culture all influence the type and number of LCDs that are being developed.

Cynthia will discuss the collaborative conservation effort being undertaken through the Southeast Conservation Adaptation Strategy (SECAS).  SECAS was initiated in 2011 by states of the Southeastern Association of Fish & Wildlife Agencies and the federal Southeast Natural Resource Leaders Group with support from Southeast and Caribbean Landscape Conservation Cooperatives (LCCs), the Southeast Climate Science Center, and the Southeast Aquatic Resources Partnership.

This poster was presented at the "Quail 8" conference, a Joint Quail Conference of the 23rd Annual National Bobwhite Technical Committee Meeting and Eighth National Quail Symposium, held in Knoxville, TN July 25-28, 2017.  Toby Gray, the GCPO LCC Geomatics Coordinator, presented a comparison of methods and results of the species-focused "biologist ranking information" developed by the National Bobwhite Conservation Initiative and the system-focused Open Pine and Grassland Watershed Ranks map layers produced by the GCPO LCC's Ecological Assessment.

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See how the North Atlantic LCC worked toward achieving its vision of "Landscapes that sustain our natural resources and cultural heritage maintained in a healthy state through active collaboration of conservation partners and partnerships in the North Atlantic region" in 2014. 

The North Pacific LCC Conservation Planning Atlas (CPA) is a resource for multiple agencies and organizations engaging in landscape scale conservation within the North Pacific region. The North Pacific region is data-rich.  However, much of these data are dispersed throughout different agency websites and portals.

The Southeast Conservation Planning Atlas is the place to find and organize information, datasets, maps, and galleries for southeastern geographies. Users can explore data from a wide variety of sources that encompass all or parts of the southeastern 15 states, Puerto Rico, and the US Virgin Islands. The CPA also contains the Southeast Conservation Adaptation Strategy Blueprint and state-level datasets. 

The California LCC Conservation Planning Atlas supplements the LCC's Climate Commons. The CPA contains 11 galleries and 45 uploaded datasets as well as selected datasets and maps from others.

Developed through funding from the national LCC Network and hosted on the Conservation Biology Institute’s Data Basin platform, the Great Basin LCC Conservation Planning Atlas (CPA) allows users to create and share unique, science-based mapping products from over 16,000 high-priority datasets from LANDFIRE, the Bureau of Land Management, the U.S. Geological Survey, and other agencies. The CPA prioritizes best available geospatial data related to high priority conservation issues in the Great Basin.