Resources

The Eastern Mojave was selected as one of three Landscape Conservation Design pilot areas in early 2016. Landscape Conservation Design (LCD) is a process that identifies, develops and strengthens large-scale collaborative relationships. It produces information and tools needed by partners to meet common conservation goals by identifying important social values, resources, and stressors across a geography that transcends jurisdictional boundaries.

This is the second of four webinars to share the results of vulnerability assessments conducted for regionally significant natural resources, some of which were identified by participants at two Adaptation Forum workshops hosted by the Southern Rockies Landscape Conservation Cooperative in 2016.

This one-page double-sided flyer provides an introduction to the Upper Midwest and Great Lakes LCC and identifies the benefits of joining the community.

This slide library, provided by the Midwest Perennial Forage Working Group, originated from a 2015 project that produced a series of six webinars for grazing educators in the Upper Mississippi River Basin. Top grazing educators from Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, and Wisconsin developed the webinar content and delivered the presentations, sponsored by MPFWG and the Pasture Project of Wallace Center at Winrock International. Once the webinar series was complete, educators involved agreed to make their presentation slides available to other educators.

This brief report highlights the major accomplishments of the Eastern Tallgrass Prairie LCC in 2016 and 2017 and features insights regarding the value of collaboration from Steering Committee co-chairs and membership, as well as the direction of the LCC going forward.

The SRLCC Steering Committee recognizes the need and importance of increasing tribal engagement efforts and formed an ad-hoc Tribal/Cultural Resource Work Group. The work group was tasked with developing an SRLCC Tribal Engagement Strategy. The strategy defines LCC investment areas to support tribal resource management efforts.

This group is a geospatial community of practice for identifying the resources, capabilities, and capacity to respond to the needs and requirements of the GCPOLCC.

It has met several times over the history of the LCC, with a large (~65) and changing set of participants.  The group first met in 2011 to introduce the LCC to potential geomatics collaborators.  In June and December of 2014 the group held virtual meetings, and a key focus was the set-up of the Conservation Planning Atlas. 

This policy comes from Chapter 5 of the USFWS National Wildlife Refuge Planning handbook.

This factsheet summarizes five projects supported and coordinated by the LCC that focus on assessing the attributes of landscape patterns and forest conditions that make open pine beneficial to wildlife (including managed pine) and developing tools to assist landowners with forest management/incentive decisions. 

These two factsheets provide a summary of information about the Conservation Planning Atlas and why it was developed, as well as examples of how people are using the tool.

The GCPO LCC prepared Ecological Assessments of 9 priority habitat systems as the basis for its "State of the GCPO" report as well as development of its Conservation Blueprint. The Assessments use existing LCC-wide digital geospatial datasets to quantify expert-defined metrics of habitat quality.  The Assessments inform the LCC's Landscape Conservation Design process, which spatially depicts priority sites and habitats for inclusion in a habitat conservation network across the region and across the Southeast.

The GCPO LCC prepared Ecological Assessments of 9 priority habitat systems as the basis for its "State of the GCPO" report as well as development of its Conservation Blueprint. The Assessments use existing LCC-wide digital geospatial datasets to quantify expert-defined metrics of habitat quality.  The Assessments inform the LCC's Landscape Conservation Design process, which spatially depicts priority sites and habitats for inclusion in a habitat conservation network across the region and across the Southeast.

The GCPO LCC prepared Ecological Assessments of 9 priority habitat systems as the basis for its "State of the GCPO" report as well as development of its Conservation Blueprint. The Assessments use existing LCC-wide digital geospatial datasets to quantify expert-defined metrics of habitat quality.  The Assessments inform the LCC's Landscape Conservation Design process, which spatially depicts priority sites and habitats for inclusion in a habitat conservation network across the region and across the Southeast.

This is the original charter developed in 2012 to guide the work of the LCC's Adaptation Science Management Team or ASMT.  

The Southern Rockies LCC is pleased to provide its 2016 Annual Report. The report highlights the work of the Steering Committee, the collaborative efforts in the Green River Basin, Four Corners, and Upper Rio Grande focal areas, science project products, and communications.

On May 10, 2017, Indiana University President Michael A. McRobbie announced that IU will invest $55 million to help Indiana develop actionable solutions that prepare businesses, farmers, communities and individuals for the effects of ongoing environmental change.

This strategic plan positions ETPBR LCC members as leaders for regional conservation, identifies the natural resources challenges the LCC is up against, and sets forth a vision, mission and guiding principles to encourage growth and maturity for the partnership.

Downloadable poster of the LCC Network's Vision.

Access the GCPO LCC Projects Database

The GCPO LCC uses ScienceBase as a Project Database to track all work products developed by research institutions and investigators under agreements with the LCC, as well as significant accomplishments and work products developed by staff.  

Explanation of key Project Database functions

These tools include maps that estimate the amount of milkweed present in metropolitan areas (baseline milkweed density)  and  maps that estimate the potential increase in the number of milkweed stems under different conditions (scenario planning). These maps allow the impact of particular conservation practices to be visually assesed, which in turn can inform how conservation priorities can be set.

The GCPO LCC prepared Ecological Assessments of 9 priority habitat systems as the basis for its "State of the GCPO" report as well as development of its Conservation Blueprint. The Assessments use existing LCC-wide digital geospatial datasets to quantify expert-defined metrics of habitat quality.  The Assessments inform the LCC's Landscape Conservation Design process, which spatially depicts priority sites and habitats for inclusion in a habitat conservation network across the region and across the Southeast.

The GCPO LCC prepared Ecological Assessments of 9 priority habitat systems as the basis for its "State of the GCPO" report as well as development of its Conservation Blueprint. The Assessments use existing LCC-wide digital geospatial datasets to quantify expert-defined metrics of habitat quality.  The Assessments inform the LCC's Landscape Conservation Design process, which spatially depicts priority sites and habitats for inclusion in a habitat conservation network across the region and across the Southeast.

This is the second edition of the GCPO LCC communications strategy, reflecting updates to communications practices and an expanded set of audiences, communications activities, and goals that reflect the maturing nature of the GCPO LCC in achieving its mission. New developments since the 2012 Communications Strategy include development and the beginning stages of assisting with implementation of a conservation blueprint for the entire geography, and via the Southeast Conservation Adaptation Strategy, for the entire Southeast region.