The Adaptation Workbook is a structured process to consider the potential effects of climate change on forest ecosystems and design forest management and conservation actions that can help prepare for changing conditions. The process is completely flexible to accommodate a wide variety of geographic locations, scales, forest types, management goals, and ownership types. The Workbook consists of 5 basic steps:
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: October 6, 2015
The RPCCR tool enables users to dynamically locate areas (within the selected region) in the riparian zone that would benefit most from increased shading produced by planting of trees. The tool operates on a 200 meter stream buffer (100 on each side), and requires the user to specify values for maximum percent canopy cover and minimum solar gain percentile. The user can additionally choose to include minimum elevation (meters) and maximum percent impervious surface values in the analysis.
Date posted: October 6, 2015
The Southern Rockies LCC Conservation Planning Atlas (CPA) provides a platform to access and integrate geospatial data sets, maps, and information for use in analysis and conservation planning.
Date posted: October 5, 2015
The Climate Commons offers a starting point for discovery of climate change data and related resources, information about the science that produced it, and guidance for applying climate change science to conservation in California.
Date posted: October 1, 2015
This assessment measures all of the South Atlantic LCC's natural and cultural resource indicators and scores them on an A/B/C/D/F scale. It’s a snapshot in time that tells us how our lands and waters are doing today, setting the baseline for future assessments so we can start to identify trends and track the impacts of our conservation actions.
Date posted: September 30, 2015
The South Atlantic LCC has released its 2014 Annual Report highlighting the key accomplishments of the past year. The staff has dedicated this year’s progress to our Coordinator, Ken McDermond. It's a great refresher on all the great things we achieved together as a community!
Date posted: September 30, 2015
State wildlife biologists and other natural resource professionals have recognized the need for accurate current vegetation maps to facilitate conservation planning and management for decades. The Oklahoma Geographic Information Council has pursued avenues to up-date and improve statewide current vegetation maps for at least the five years before this project began.
Date posted: September 30, 2015
The Conservation Planning Atlas is a platform for data discovery, sharing and collaboration for partners working on Landscape Conservation Design. With the CPA, you can search for spatial datasets, make maps, create galleries that support collaborative efforts, and learn more about conservation science and design.
Date posted: September 29, 2015
Blueprint 2.0 is a living map showing the best places for shared conservation action in the face of climate change, urban growth, and sea-level rise. The data-driven online tool includes all the terrestrial, freshwater, and marine ecosystems of the South Atlantic. The tool allows you to see how much Blueprint 2.0 priority areas, ecosystems, and indicators are within specific sub-watersheds or marine lease blocks. You can also see how well indicators are doing within one watershed or marine lease block, compared to the South Atlantic region on average.
Date posted: September 29, 2015
A single-page, introductory flier summarizing the Aleutian and Bering Sea Islands LCCs mission, goals, geography, etc.
Date posted: September 28, 2015
With support from the Southern Rockies LCC and the Bureau of Reclamation, the Springs Stewardship Institute (SSI) at the Museum of Northern Arizona is launching a new two-year project. The goal of the project is to provide springs managers with comprehensive, current information regarding springs and springs-dependent species through a secure, user-friendly online database, and to develop a landscape-based climate change risk model for the region.
Date posted: September 28, 2015
The South Atlantic Landscape Conservation Cooperative (LCC) is a partnership of federal, state, nonprofit, and private organizations dedicated to conserving a landscape capable of sustaining the nation’s natural and cultural resources for current and future generations.
Date posted: September 25, 2015
The Ecological Assessment focuses on using existing LCC-wide digital geospatial datasets to quantify expert-defined metrics of habitat quality, with particular emphasis on assessing three basic themes as they relate to Desired Ecological States of each habitat system:
Date posted: September 24, 2015
This factsheet describes how federal agencies are coordinating across climate partnership networks to provide context-specific data, information, and tools for decision makers to improve practices and make risk management and adaptation decisions that are climate- and weather-sensitive. These networks include Landscape Conservation Cooperatives, Climate Science Centers (USGS), Regional Climate Hubs (USDA), and Regional Climate Partnerships (NOAA and partners). This factsheet has been updated as of March 2017.
Date posted: September 22, 2015
Speaker: Dr. David Stoner, Dept. of Wildland Resources, Quinney College of Natural Resources, Utah State University
Co-author: Thomas C. Edwards, Jr., US Geological Survey/Utah State University
Date posted: September 22, 2015
Landscape Conservation Cooperative Council Charter - revised Sept. 21, 2015
Date posted: September 21, 2015
The Science-Management Framework (Framework) identifies the process by which the CA LCC provides scientific support for natural resource managers to incorporate climate-smart* conservation strategies into their management actions. This 5-year Framework is part of the CA LCC Strategic Plan, developed with the assistance of the Science-Management Team and adopted by the Steering Committee.
Date posted: September 17, 2015
Date posted: September 17, 2015
In order to focus our effort on science needs common to multiple to managers we initiated a strategic science planning process for the ABSI region in 2011. We began by compiling over 50 existing research and management plans relevant to the Aleutians and Bering Sea. These plans range from single and multi-species management plans to those proposing strategies for ecosystem-wide management. Collectively, they represent a rich legacy of effort from countless resource managers and researchers.
Date posted: September 17, 2015
This brochure explains how Landscape Conservation Cooperatives provide a way for States, Tribes, Federal agencies, non-governmental organizations, universities, natural resource-dependent businesses, private landowners, and other conservation partners to work together in a new way to address conservation challenges. LCCs bring partners together to identify conservation solutions. Building on knowledge and conservation work of existing partnerships, LCCs increase collective science and management capacity to address common conservation priorities.
Date posted: September 2, 2015
Appalachian LCC Coordinator Jean Brennan, National LCC Coordinator Elsa Haubold, and National LCC Communication Coordinator Laura Maclean participated in a live broadcast that provided an update on the work of Landscape Conservation Cooperatives (LCCs) to environmental educators.
The broadcast gave an overview on the LCC work to date and shared information on the many LCC environmental educational resources available for use by educators. The broadcast also included time for live interaction and Q&A with the presenters.
Date posted: August 26, 2015
The Appalachian LCC has worked to define data and conservation science needs, invest in gathering foundational data and priority research, and build a coordinated network for those investments to pay off. Many of our funded research projects are now beginning to deliver important science information and tools to support landscape conservation for the valued natural and cultural resources in the Appalachians. This report highlights the many achievements of our partnership in these areas.
Date posted: August 13, 2015
Speaker: Ted Toombs, Environmental Defense Fund
Date posted: August 11, 2015
Danaus plexippus in the Southwest - Opening the Treasure of New Insights about Monarch Butterflies in the Deserts
Little was known about monarch butterflies in the Southwest region of the United States but new studies reveal a modest population with promising conservation implications. In this seminar we will discuss information about the monarch butterfly breeding, migration and overwintering strategies in the southwest region, favored Asclepias spp. and nectar sources, and the affect of climate change on the monarch's life-cycle.
About the presenter:
Date posted: July 30, 2015
Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD), MoRap and other partners recently completed a seven-year project to map the current status of Texas' vegetation communities, the "Ecological Mapping Systems of Texas" (EMS-TX). This effort resulted in one of the largest statewide vegetation and abiotic datasets in the US.
Date posted: July 1, 2015
Enterarse del proceso de Planeación y Diseño de Conservación del Paisaje de la DLCC. Este esfuerzo se enfoca en el desarrollo de metas y objetivos para la conservación colaborativa en el manejo de tres ecosistemas de enfoque dentro de nuestra región:
Date posted: June 30, 2015
Learn more about the Desert LCC's landscape conservation planning and design process. This effort focuses on developing common conservation goals and objectives for managing three focal ecosystem types within our geographic area:
Date posted: June 26, 2015
Reporting on activities and achievement for the Gulf Coast Prairie Landscape Conservation Cooperative in 2014.
Date posted: June 18, 2015
Presenter: Dr. Lindsay Reynolds, Department of Biology, Colorado State University and U.S. Geological Survey, Fort Collins, CO
Co-authors: Dr. Patrick Shafroth, U.S. Geological Survey, Fort Collins Science Center and Dr. N. LeRoy Poff, Department of Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
Date posted: June 18, 2015
StreamStats (http://streamstats.usgs.gov) is a GIS-based Web application that was developed by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) as a decision-support system for use in resource conservation, planning and management activities, as well as for engineering and design purposes.
Date posted: June 17, 2015
NOAA’s Climate Ready Great Lakes posted three training modules online designed to help create a Great Lakes region that is “climate ready.” These modules provide stakeholders and decision makers with clear information about the Great Lakes climate, as well as strategies on adaptation. This project was sponsored by the Great Lakes Sea Grant Network and the NOAA Great Lakes Regional Collaboration Team. Each module consists of a PowerPoint presentation and supplemental materials, including worksheets, handouts, and evaluation forms.
Date posted: June 14, 2015
Pima County, Arizona is one of the fastest growing communities in the United States and is located in one of the most ecologically diverse areas of the country. In 1997, development activities were slowed as a result of the listing of the cactus ferruginous pygmy-owl (Glaucidium brasilianum cactorum) as a federally endangered species. This tiny owl became a catalyst for a landscape-level plan known as the Sonoran Desert Conservation Plan (SDCP).
Date posted: June 2, 2015
Presenter: Megan Friggens, USDA, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Albuquerque, NM
Date posted: May 19, 2015
Extensive high-severity wildfires and drought-induced tree mortality have intensified over the last two decades in southwestern US forests and woodlands, on a scale unseen regionally since at least pre-1900. Abundant and diverse paleo-ecological and historical sources indicate substantial variability in Southwest fire regimes and forest patterns over the past ~10,000 years, providing context for recent fire trends.
Date posted: May 13, 2015
Developed through a collaborative effort across the Executive Branch, this Strategy outlines a comprehensive approach to tackling and reducing the impact of multiple stressors on pollinator health, including pests and pathogens, reduced habitat, lack of nutritional resources, and exposure to pesticides.
Date posted: April 22, 2015
This report describes the existing condition of the Gila River in the Cliff-Gila Valley and examines the potential impacts of CUFA diversion and climate change on the riparian and aquatic ecosystem. Scientists who have expertise in some aspect of the Gila River’s hydrology and ecology wrote and contributed to this assessment.
Date posted: April 15, 2015
Fish species found in North American deserts represent some of the most unique, rare taxa in the world. Because these fishes live in aquatic “islands”- i.e., springs, streams and rivers separated from other water bodies by vast, harsh deserts- they have evolved to cope with life on the edge in their aquatic environments. Fish in arid lands are diverse, ranging from pupfish that inhabit small drying springs 40°C and almost five times the salinity of seawater; to some of the most southern trout species in North America; to the largest minnow in North America, a fish nearly 2 m long.
Date posted: April 14, 2015
The southwest US is predicted to grow hotter and drier this century with the probability of a long-term megadrought becoming more likely. Vertebrate populations in the southwest US will either have to adapt to these harsher conditions, shift their ranges to newly suitable regions, or, in extreme cases, be assisted by humans.
Date posted: March 31, 2015
Climate change and climate variability are increasingly becoming ubiquitous in natural resource management and research. Equally increasing are the datasets and sources for information relevant to such considerations of future climate. This webinar will provide an overview of some datasets and sources available to researchers and managers, with emphasis on an archive of climate projections and climate informed hydrology data developed and maintained by the Bureau of Reclamation and other collaborators.
Date posted: March 27, 2015
Strategic Themes
Strategic themes were developed to identify over-arching or cross-cutting issues and needs that transcend individual goals or objectives and warrant consideration in all aspects of the PFLCC conservation strategy.
Date posted: March 19, 2015
Date posted: March 10, 2015
A single-page fact sheet describing the purpose, approach and key partners for conservation action in the Gulf Coast Prairie Landscape Conservation Cooperative.
Date posted: February 20, 2015
Standard species distribution models (SDM) use climate layers to determine a species “climate” niche and then project the species distribution to future time points as climate warms or dries, but such models do not take into account evolved physiological or ecological differences among species that might impact resistance to warm spells and / or long-term droughts. Here I will describe the relationships between climate layers and operative thermal and hydric environments for reptiles and amphibians.
Date posted: February 18, 2015
Data products derived from General Circulation Model (GCM) projections are increasingly becoming ubiquitous in a range of scientific studies and natural resource management. Processes to develop such products from GCM output vary considerably based on factors such as, but not limited to, spatial and temporal resolution needs, variables of interest, geographic location, computing capability, and study complexity. The technique to generate higher resolution data from GCM output is broadly referred to as downscaling and ranges from statistical approaches to finer scale dynamical modeling.
Date posted: February 18, 2015
Reporting on activities and achievement for the Gulf Coastal Plains and Ozarks Landscape Conservation Cooperative in 2014.
Date posted: February 16, 2015
Formed in early 2012, the Aleutian and Bering Sea Islands Landscape Conservation Cooperative (ABSI) promotes applied science to inform conservation of natural and cultural resources in the face of climate change and other landscape-scale stressors. We are a broad partnership of individuals, organizations, and government agencies with an interest in the Aleutian and Bering Sea Islands region. The ABSI charter includes the following five conservation goals, the order of which does not imply priority:
Date posted: February 12, 2015
Large, severe wildfires are a fact of life in southwestern ponderosa pine forests. What will burned ecosystems look like over the coming decades under a warming climate? Do management treatments make a lasting difference or will climate override their effects? We applied the relatively new feature of the Forest Vegetation Simulator (FVS) called Climate-FVS, which modifies the widely used FVS model to make it simulate effects of climate change. The short answer: climate change has major effects on our test site, the Rodeo-Chediski fire on Arizona’s Mogollon Rim.
Date posted: January 14, 2015
Reporting on activities and achievement for the Great Northern Landscape Conservation Cooperative in 2014.
Date posted: January 1, 2015
The Bureau of Land Management presents a summary of the Madrean Archipelago Rapid Ecoregional Assessment. This project, which began in 2012, compiled geospatial data to examine the potential impacts of climate, development, fire, and invasive species on ecosystems and key species in the Madrean Archipelago ecoregion, located in southwest Arizona and and the bootheel of New Mexico. This region is more commonly known as the "Sky Islands." Information from the MAREA will be used for landscape-level planning and decision-making.
Date posted: December 18, 2014
Southern Rockies Landscape Conservation Cooperative Fiscal Year 2015 Applied Science and Capacity Needs
Date posted: November 11, 2014