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.

A Framework to Identify Climate-Related Shifts and Refugia for Desert Reptiles webinar screen shot

For the sub-arctic, temperate USA, some of the greatest climate change related departures from current conditions are predicted to occur in the desert southwest. This region is getting warmer and drier; modeling and then documenting species’ responses to those climate shifts can identify management options to stem losses to biodiversity. Here I describe a monitoring framework developed by a National Park Service and UC Riverside team, focusing on Joshua Tree National Park, to achieve that objective.

Date posted: October 15, 2014
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The success of the LCC Network depends upon the success of the individual LCCs in addressing the conservation needs most important within their geographies as well as the LCCs’ collective ability to tackle conservation priorities at even broader geographic scales.

The LCC Network’s strategic plan articulates our five-year path forward to achieving the LCCs’ shared vision and mission to conserve and maintain landscapes and seascapes.

Date posted: October 13, 2014
Springs in the Sky Island Region Inventory, Assessment, and Management Planning Project webinar screen shot

Springs are keystone ecosystems in the Sky Island Region, exert disproportionate influence on surrounding landscapes, and are known to be biodiversity hotspots. Although they are abundant in this arid region, they are poorly documented and little studied. They also suffer from extensive human modification and are among the most threatened ecosystems. Lack of information on their location, management context, and biological, hydrological, and ecological characteristics hinders effective stewardship of these resources.

Date posted: October 2, 2014
A Geomorphic Perspective on Restoring the Rio Grande and the Colorado River webinar

This presentation describes the attributes of rivers of the Southwest US and northern Mexico and how those physical attributes, especially sediment transport and geomorphology, might be considered in developing environmental flows. The primary examples are drawn from the Rio Grande in far west Texas and different parts of the Colorado River basin.

Date posted: September 24, 2014
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This document is the product of an August 2014 workshop focused on defining a landscape approach to the Mississippi River Basin and Gulf hypoxia. The workshop consisted of dozens of researchers and professionals from across the Basin and this final report remains a guiding document for the Mississippi River Basin/Gulf Hypoxia Initiative.

Date posted: September 24, 2014
Development of Environmental Flow Decision Support Systems for Water Management webinar

The need for better integration of science and decision making in environmental management is widely documented. In light of anticipated climate change and associated changes in demographics, land use, and water management practices, decision makers are confronted with the need to make major decisions in the face of high system complexity and uncertainty. The integration of useful and relevant scientific information is necessary and critical to enable informed decision-making.

Date posted: August 20, 2014
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A fact sheet detailing the focal species and associated habitats of the Gulf Coast Prairie Landscape Conservation Cooperative.

The focal species for the Gulf Coast Prairie Landscape Conservation Cooperative are:

Date posted: August 15, 2014
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Today a range of monumental conservation challenges confronts the Appalachians. This includes the loss and fragmentation of natural habitats; disruptions in natural disturbance regimes; and expanding major land-use changes that are occurring on a grand scale. Climate change will further exacerbate these challenges. The magnitude of these landscape-level changes requires a shift from traditional local and single-species conservation approaches toward a more comprehensive scale to protect species, habitats, and ecosystems.

Date posted: August 11, 2014
Conservation Design Geonode screen shot

The Appalachian LCC and the Eastern Brooktrout Joint Venture Partnership's open-source mapping platform "Conservation Design" is designed to support the conservation community and their diverse needs to view, create, and analyze spatial data and maps. This platform provides access to a suite of scientific data, relevant to a variety of conservation planning goals/tasks including the execution of custom designed decision support tools. These tools allow a manager or conservation practitioner to make dynamic scenario-based decisions using the most current scientific information.

Date posted: August 6, 2014
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The Gulf Coast Prairie LCC has reached a significant milestone in its development with the completion of its Science Strategy. An effort begun October 2013 by the Science Team, this strategy focuses on the Top Tier Focal Species and their associated habitats. It will help LCC partners align their efforts to address species and habitat needs, direct science resources, and communicate about conservation work.

Date posted: August 1, 2014
Water Harvesting Assessment Toolbox

The Water Harvesting Assessment Toolbox  is a prototype decision aid designed to help communities in the Southwest US understand the role water harvesting can play in meeting water resource challenges while providing multiple additional benefits. It also introduces water harvesting techniques and suggests ways to implement locally appropriate water harvesting efforts. The Toolbox is intended for a wide range of users.

Date posted: July 14, 2014
Phenology for Wildlife Conservation and Climate Change Adaptation webinar

Changes in the timing of phenological events—such as hibernation, migration, and breeding —have been called a 'globally coherent fingerprint of climate change impacts' on plants and animals. Not surprisingly, phenology is now widely accepted as a robust ecological indicator of the impacts of climate change. Climate-induced changes in phenology have been linked to increases in wildfire activity and pest outbreaks, shifts in species distributions, declines in the abundance of native species, the spread of invasive species, and changes in carbon cycling in forests.

Date posted: June 26, 2014
The Role of Marketing and Flagship Species in Mainstreaming Biodiversity webinar

Campaigns featuring flagship species are a key part of the conservation education efforts. Yet, these use of conservation flagships often lack a evidence-base, which impacts the selection of flagships and our understanding of flagship impact. In this webinar I will present field research conducted at two study sites in Northeast Brazil and discuss how the field of marketing can provide important theoretical support to use of flagship species in conservation education campaigns.

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Date posted: June 4, 2014
Applying Ecosystem Service Modeling Tools to Aid Decision Making Under Climate Change webinar

Maps and economic values for ecosystem services - the value that nature provides to people and the economy - hold the promise of improving natural resource management and providing a better understanding the linkages between people and nature. While mapping and valuation studies are increasingly demanded for resource management, obstacles remain in their day-to-day application toward decision making. In this presentation, Ken will describe work underway to improve the scientific accuracy of ecosystem service assessments and make them easier to apply in decision making.

Date posted: May 15, 2014
3DEP: National 3D Elevation Program webinar

The 3D Elevation Program (3DEP) initiative is being developed to respond to growing needs for high-quality topographic data and for a wide range of other three-dimensional representations of the Nation's natural and constructed features. The primary goal of 3DEP is to systematically collect enhanced elevation data in the form of high-quality light detection and ranging (lidar) data over the conterminous United States, Hawaii, and the U.S. territories.

Date posted: May 13, 2014
Landscape Design Process in the Playa Lakes Joint Venture Region webinar

Landscape Design has been described as the bridge between landscape ecology and conservation delivery. It recognizes the need for humans to live and work in the landscape and it seeks to understand the patterns and the underlying processes of those patterns. The PLJV has developed a landscape design process for their region. We will describe the process and an example that was the result of a pilot project on playa wetlands in Colorado and New Mexico. We will discuss how the landscape design process can be used in collaboration with partner products and conservation plans.

Date posted: May 13, 2014
Preview image of WALCC Strategic Science Plan.pdf

We prioritize our efforts based on decision maker’s science needs and on opportunities to leverage our resources.  Within this framework, focusing on a particular topic or theme allows us to refine our selection and form a suite of integrated activities to fund, resulting in a number of synergistic benefits:

Date posted: May 13, 2014
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Natalie Sexton with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service discusses the role of human dimensions in natural resource conservation.

Date posted: May 8, 2014
Making Difficult Decisions webinar

This is a webinar for the Bird Alliance Education for Conservation hosted by the Sonoran Joint Venture and the Desert Landscape Conservation Cooperative. The presenter is Trica Hawkins from Tucson's Environmental Education Exchange, and the topic is human dimensions of wildlife conservation and the role of ethics and values in decision making and partnership building. Trica has been very involved in the bighorn sheep reintroduction here in Tucson and will be using that as a case study.

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Date posted: April 2, 2014
Biodiversity As a Metric of Ecosystem Resilience to Climate Change webinar

Shifting diversity patterns and species turnover are fundamental concerns about how climate change will influence desert ecosystems. Scientists, managers, and-policy makers are searching for metrics to assist in the prediction of ecosystem responses to climate change. Temporal variation in landscape and regional-scale diversity can provide insights on the fragility or resilience of plant and animal communities in the Southwest to changing climates.

Date posted: March 13, 2014
Using the USGS National Map Products and Services

As one of the cornerstones of the U.S. Geological Survey's (USGS) National Geospatial Program, The National Map is a collaborative effort among the USGS and other Federal, State, and local partners to improve and deliver topographic information for the Nation. The National Map comprises a variety of products and services that provide access to base geospatial information (such as orthoimagery, elevation data, and hydrography) to describe the landscape of the United States.

Date posted: March 11, 2014
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Melanie Murphy from the University of Wyoming discusses her research related to wetland hydroperiod and climate change. Wetland hydroperiod, the length of time water is available in wetlands, is particularly sensitive to changes in precipitation, temperature and timing due to climate variation. Truncated hydroperiod has major implications for wetland-dependent species (e.g., waterfowl) and human water allocation.

Date posted: March 6, 2014
Detecting and Addressing Climate Change Impacts on Birds and Their Habitats

Rapid ongoing climate change presents new challenges to natural resource managers. Effects are usually at large landscape scales and management actions must account for future uncertainty, often based solely on locally available data. Because birds are known to be indicators of ecosystem health and function and are cost effective to survey at multiple scales, they can provide early warnings of broader changes that may accompany climate change and other landscape-scale level environmental stressors.

Date posted: February 28, 2014
Preview image of GCPO_LCC_Strategic_Plan_2013-2018.pdf

The Strategic Plan guides the GCPO LCC, defining its vision, mission, challenges, long-range goals, way of working and 5-year strategies for work in its 180-million acre geography.

Date posted: January 28, 2014
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Ben Rashford (University of Wyoming), Anne Schrag (World Wildlife Fund) and Johann Walker (Ducks Unlimited, Inc.) provide an overview of grassland conversion risk in the plains and prairie pothole region.

Date posted: January 10, 2014

The Nature Conservancy, in partnership with the Upper Midwest and Great Lakes LCC, launched the Great Lakes Migratory Bird Stopover Portal in 2014, an online database available to natural resources managers across the Great Lakes that identifies and projects important migratory bird stopover habitat for landbirds, shorebirds and waterfowl.

Date posted: January 8, 2014
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Reporting on activities and achievement for the Aleutian and Bering Sea Islands Landscape Conservation Cooperative in 2013.

Date posted: January 1, 2014
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Reporting on activities and achievement for the Appalachian Landscape Conservation Cooperative in 2013.

Date posted: January 1, 2014
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Reporting on activities and achievement for the Arctic Landscape Conservation Cooperative in 2013.

Date posted: January 1, 2014
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Reporting on activities and achievement for the California Landscape Conservation Cooperative in 2013.

Date posted: January 1, 2014
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Reporting on activities and achievement for the Carribean Landscape Conservation Cooperative in 2013.

Date posted: January 1, 2014
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Reporting on activities and achievement for the Eastern Tallgrass Prairie and Big Rivers Landscape Conservation Cooperative in 2013.

Date posted: January 1, 2014
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Reporting on activities and achievement for the Great Basin Landscape Conservation Cooperative in 2013.

Date posted: January 1, 2014
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Reporting on activities and achievement for the Great Northern Landscape Conservation Cooperative in 2013.

Date posted: January 1, 2014
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Reporting on activities and achievement for the Great Plains Landscape Conservation Cooperative in 2013. 

Date posted: January 1, 2014
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Reporting on activities and achievement for the Gulf Coast Prairie Landscape Conservation Cooperative in 2013.

Date posted: January 1, 2014
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Reporting on activities and achievement for the Gulf Coastal Plains and Ozarks Landscape Conservation Cooperative in 2013.

Date posted: January 1, 2014
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Reporting on activities and achievement for the entire Landscape Conservation Cooperative Network in 2013.

Date posted: January 1, 2014
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Reporting on activities and achievement for the North Atlantic Landscape Conservation Cooperative in 2013.

Date posted: January 1, 2014
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Reporting on activities and achievement for the North Pacific Landscape Conservation Cooperative in 2013.

Date posted: January 1, 2014
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Reporting on activities and achievement for the Northwest Boreal Landscape Conservation Cooperative in 2013.

Date posted: January 1, 2014
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Reporting on activities and achievement for the Pacific Islands Landscape Conservation Cooperative in 2013.

Date posted: January 1, 2014
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Reporting on activities and achievement for the Peninsular Florida Landscape Conservation Cooperative in 2013.

Date posted: January 1, 2014
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Reporting on activities and achievement for the Plains and Prairie Potholes Landscape Conservation Cooperative in 2013.

Date posted: January 1, 2014
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Reporting on activities and achievement for the South Atlantic Landscape Conservation Cooperative in 2013.

Date posted: January 1, 2014
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The 2013 Southern Rockies LCC annual report highlights science projects as well as accomplishments and activities. Initiated in April 2011, the Southern Rockies LCC has established itself as a diverse partnership. In 2013, SRLCC partners contributed over $1.6 million to support science acquisition and capacity to address landscape-level conservation planning. Of the $1.6 million, $669,000 was leveraged for an additional $808,000 in matching funds and/or in-kind services, generating a total of $1.48 million for science that informs management decisions.

Date posted: January 1, 2014
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Reporting on activities and achievement for the Upper Midwest and Great Lakes Landscape Conservation Cooperative in 2013.

Date posted: January 1, 2014