Climate adaptation planning for Nez Perce fisheries

Native fish of the Columbia River Basin, and the ecosystems that support them, are an innate and critical part of Nez Perce culture. The persistence of these fisheries may be at risk due to climate change, especially in combination with other stressors (e.g., habitat fragmentation and disconnectivity). Assessing vulnerability of these fisheries to climate change, considering options for action, and taking action will require strategic collaboration and coordination with multiple partners. Here, we propose to start building those partnerships to address this landscape-level conservation concern.The overarching philosophy of Nez Perce fisheries management is to ensure that all species and populations of anadromous...

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Bull Trout, Climate Change, Columbia Basin, Conservation Planning, Cutthroat Trout, All tags... Federal resource managers, Goal 3: Maintain hydrologic regimes, Goal 5: Sustain local, place-based land use values, Idaho, Informing Conservation Delivery, LCC Network Science Catalog, Land Use Change, Montana, Oregon, Project, Report, Rocky Mountain, Salmon, State agencies, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, Training/Outreach/Workshop, Tribes, Washington, environment, onGoing, Fewer tags

TestProject

This project will support the design and development of a large-scale aquatics monitoring program across 1.5 million acres of the Crown of the Continent, as part of a 10-year, landscape-level restoration project established and funded by the U.S. Forest Service in 2010. The Forest Service has directed each of ten Cooperative Forest Landscape Restoration Program projects to develop and implement a large-scale monitoring program to inventory current resource conditions and facilitate the short- and long-term evaluation of the effectiveness of restoration projects to inform future management strategies and actions: the work proposed here would address significant challenges associated with maintaining or improving...

Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Bull Trout, Climate Change, Completed, Cutthroat Trout, Goal 3: Maintain hydrologic regimes, All tags... Goal 4: Promote landscape-scale disturbances, LCCResourceType, Land Use Change, MT-1, Montana, Montana, Rivers & Riparian Corridors, Rocky Mountain, Southwest Crown of the Continent, Fewer tags

A New Model of Watershed-scale Aquatic Monitoring from the Crown of the Continent: Quantifying the Benefits of Watershed Restoration in the Face of Climate Change

This project will support the design and development of a large-scale aquatics monitoring program across 1.5 million acres of the Crown of the Continent, as part of a 10-year, landscape-level restoration project established and funded by the U.S. Forest Service in 2010. The Forest Service has directed each of ten Cooperative Forest Landscape Restoration Program projects to develop and implement a large-scale monitoring program to inventory current resource conditions and facilitate the short- and long-term evaluation of the effectiveness of restoration projects to inform future management strategies and actions: the work proposed here would address significant challenges associated with maintaining or improving...

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Bull Trout, Climate Change, Cutthroat Trout, Federal resource managers, Goal 3: Maintain hydrologic regimes, All tags... Goal 4: Promote landscape-scale disturbances, Land Use Change, MT-1, Monitoring, Montana, Montana, Policy makers & regulators, Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Project, Rivers & Riparian Corridors, Rocky Mountain, Southwest Crown of the Continent, State agencies, completed, Fewer tags

The NorWeST Regional Stream Temperature Model for Mapping Thermal Habitats and Predicting Vulnerability of Aquatic Species to Climate Change Across the Great Northern LCC

Existing stream temperature data were compiled from numerous federal, state, tribal, and private sources to develop an integrated regional database. Spatial statistical models for river networks were applied to these data to develop an accurate model that predicts stream temperature for all fish-bearing streams in the US portion of the GNLCC. Differences between model outputs for historic and future climate scenarios were used to assess spatial variation in the vulnerability of sensitive fish species across the GNLCC.FY2011Objectives: Develop a regional stream temperature model that incorporates important climate drivers, wildfire/riparian conditions, and geomorphic factors; Use the model to understand and predict...

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Academics & scientific researchers, Aquatic Connectivity, British Columbia, Bull Trout, CA-1, All tags... CA-2, CA-2, CA-2, CA-2, CA-3, CA-3, CA-3, CA-3, CA-5, CA-5, CA-5, CA-5, CO-2, CO-2, CO-2, CO-2, CO-3, CO-3, CO-3, CO-3, California, California, Cascadia, Climate Change, Colorado, Colorado, Colorado, Colorado, Columbia Basin, Cutthroat Trout, Data Acquisition and Development, Datasets, Datasets/Database, Federal resource managers, Goal 2: Conserve landscape connectivity, Goal 3: Maintain hydrologic regimes, ID-1, ID-1, ID-1, ID-1, ID-2, ID-2, ID-2, ID-2, Idaho, Idaho, Idaho, Idaho, Invasive Species, LCC Network Science Catalog, MT-1, MT-1, MT-1, MT-1, Map, Models, Montana, Montana, Montana, Montana, NV-2, NV-2, NV-2, NV-2, Nevada, Nevada, Nevada, Nevada, Northwest, Northwest U.S., OR-1, OR-1, OR-1, OR-1, OR-2, OR-2, OR-2, OR-2, OR-3, OR-3, OR-3, OR-3, OR-4, OR-4, OR-4, OR-4, OR-5, OR-5, OR-5, OR-5, Oregon, Oregon, Oregon, Oregon, Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Project, Riverine, Rivers & Riparian Corridors, Rocky Mountain, Sage-Steppe, Salmon, State agencies, Steelhead Trout, Stream, Temperature, UT-1, UT-1, UT-1, UT-1, Utah, Utah, Utah, Utah, Vulnerability Assessment, WA-1, WA-1, WA-1, WA-1, WA-2, WA-2, WA-2, WA-2, WA-3, WA-3, WA-3, WA-3, WA-4, WA-4, WA-4, WA-4, WA-5, WA-5, WA-5, WA-5, WA-6, WA-6, WA-6, WA-6, WA-7, WA-7, WA-7, WA-7, WA-8, WA-8, WA-8, WA-8, WA-9, WA-9, WA-9, WA-9, WY-1, WY-1, WY-1, WY-1, Washington, Washington, Washington, Washington, Website, Wyoming, Wyoming, Wyoming, Wyoming, completed, environment, Fewer tags

Predicting Effects of Climate Change on Aquatic Ecosystems in the Crown of the Continent Ecosystem : Combining Vulnerability Assessments, Landscape Connectivity , and Modeling for Conservation and Adaptation

We propose a regional assessment of aquatic species vulnerabilities and responses to climate change as the basis for adaptive management for aquatic ecosystems in the Great Northern LCC, using the Transboundary Flathead Ecosystem as a case example. This region encompasses a complex mix of federal, state, tribal, and private lands in the US and federal, provincial and private lands in Canada. The complex suite of ownerships, international relations, and agency objectives establish their own set of challenges; however, all will experience a similar range of climatic (e.g., long-term drought and declining snow pack) and non-climatic (e.g., habitat fragmentation, shifting land- and water use patterns, and invasive species)...

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Alberta, Applications and Tools, Aquatic Ecosystems, British Columbia, Bull Trout, All tags... Climate Change, Crown of the Continent, Cutthroat Trout, Datasets/Database, Federal resource managers, Goal 2: Conserve landscape connectivity, Goal 3: Maintain hydrologic regimes, Invasive Species, LCC Network Science Catalog, Land Use Change, MT-1, Montana, Montana, Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Project, Regional & county planners, Rivers & Riparian Corridors, Rocky Mountain, State agencies, Training/Outreach/Workshop, Vulnerability Assessment, completed, environment, Fewer tags

Great Northern Landscape Conservation Cooperative Geospatial Data Portal Extension: Implementing a GNLCC Spatial Toolkit and Phenology Server

LC MAP, the Landscape Conservation Management and Analysis Portal, allows GNLCC partners to discover, use, develop, manage, and distribute datasets that address LCC priority issues. In FY11, this effort will extend LCMAP to allow users to generate dynamic interactive map viewers, modeled output, and web services for use in ArcExplorer and other client tools. In addition, the project will build the LCMAP Phenology Service, adding ESRI image services to the application suite and allowing GIS analysts and modelers access to a full suite of phenology data for use in ArcMap and other client tools.The set of data development and presentation tools planned will allow GIS analysts in the GNLCC community to work with multiple...

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Academics & scientific researchers, Alberta, Applications and Tools, British Columbia, CO-2, All tags... CO-3, CO-3, CO-3, CO-3, Cascadia, Climate Change, Colorado, Colorado, Columbia Basin, Connectivity, Conservation NGOs, Data Management and Integration, Datasets/Database, Decision Support, Federal resource managers, GNLCC, Goal 1: Maintain large, intact landscapes, Goal 2: Conserve landscape connectivity, Goal 3: Maintain hydrologic regimes, Goal 4: Promote landscape-scale disturbances, ID-1, ID-1, ID-1, ID-1, ID-2, ID-2, ID-2, ID-2, Idaho, Idaho, Idaho, Idaho, Idaho, LCC Network Science Catalog, MT-1, MT-1, MT-1, MT-1, Montana, Montana, Montana, Montana, Montana, OR-2, OR-2, OR-2, OR-2, Oregon, Oregon, Oregon, Oregon, Oregon, Project, Rocky Mountain, Sage-Steppe, UT-1, UT-1, UT-1, UT-1, Utah, Utah, Utah, Utah, Utah, WA-1, WA-1, WA-1, WA-1, WA-2, WA-2, WA-2, WA-2, WA-3, WA-3, WA-3, WA-3, WA-4, WA-4, WA-4, WA-4, WA-5, WA-5, WA-5, WA-5, WA-8, WA-8, WA-8, WA-8, WY-1, WY-1, WY-1, WY-1, Washington, Washington, Washington, Washington, Washington, Wyoming, Wyoming, Wyoming, Wyoming, Wyoming, completed, environment, Fewer tags

Landscape-level assessment of ESA-listed spring-chinook distribution in Upper Columbia Basin watersheds using environmental DNA

The goal of this study is to use eDNA as a cost effective tool for documenting the occurrence and distribution of ESA-listed spring-chinook (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) throughout the Okanogan and Methow watersheds in an effort to map habitat use and connectivity. Our approach will use eDNA to detect low density spring-chinook in filtered water samples to inventory distribution and re-colonization of tributaries at strategically-sampled points throughout entire stream networks. This approach will provide one of the first applications of eDNA technology for monitoring distribution of native fish species of conservation concern. The findings will help the Colville Tribe Fisheries Managers assess aquatic connectivity...

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Columbia Basin, Data Acquisition and Development, Datasets/Database, Federal resource managers, Goal 3: Maintain hydrologic regimes, All tags... Invasive Species, LCC Network Science Catalog, Land Use Change, Methow sub-basin, Monitoring, Okanogan sub-basin, Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Project, Publication, Salmon, State agencies, Training/Outreach/Workshop, Tribes, WA-1, WA-4, WA-4, WA-4, WA-4, WA-8, WA-8, WA-8, WA-8, Washington, Washington, completed, environment, Fewer tags

Towards developing an interagency stream temperature database and high-resolution stream temperature model for British Columbia with a focus on pilot watersheds in the NPLCC and GNLCC

Stream temperature data will be compiled from federal and provincial government agencies, as well as other data holders in British Columbia which will be housed in an interagency database. Spatial statistical models for river networks like those used for NorWeST will be used with these data to develop a consistent set of high-resolution predictions for all streams and reaches within streams for a pilot area within the Cascadia ecotypic area of the GNLCC (i.e., middle Fraser River and Okanagan River basins). The pilot area work would entail development of technical protocols so that future efforts could be scaled broadly across BC and the northern half of the GNLCC to ultimately provide a consistent set of international...

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Aquatic Connectivity, British Columbia, Cascadia, Climate Change, Columbia Basin, All tags... Data Acquisition and Development, Data Management and Integration, Datasets/Database, Decision Support, Federal resource managers, Goal 2: Conserve landscape connectivity, Goal 3: Maintain hydrologic regimes, LCC Network Science Catalog, Land Use Change, Map, Project, Regional & county planners, Report, Riparian Areas, Riverine, Washington, environment, onGoing, Fewer tags

Crown of the Continent Landscapes Analysis/Ecological Indicators Project

Funding supports a multiyear initiative entitled Crown of the Continent Landscapes Analysis/Ecological Indicators Project. The work is designed to focus on issues on transboundary data integration and synthesis, habitatconnectivity analysis for grizzly bears (Ursus arctos) and other key wildlife species, and outreach programs aimed at disseminating knowledge, information products, and geospatial tools arising out of this work to the extensive network of Crown Managers Partnership (CMP) and GNLCC collaborators.FY2010Objectives:The monitoring strategy will focus on the development and acquisition of geospatial datasets from remote sensing and other GIS sources designed to track changes in habitats and human footprint...

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Alberta, Alberta, British Columbia, British Columbia, Bull Trout, All tags... Bull Trout, Climate Change, Climate Change, Conservation Planning, Conservation Planning, Crown of the Continent Ecosystm, Crown of the Continent Ecosystm, Cutthroat Trout, Cutthroat Trout, Data Acquisition and Development, Data Acquisition and Development, Datasets/Database, Datasets/Database, Decision Support, Decision Support, Federal resource managers, Federal resource managers, Goal 1: Maintain large, intact landscapes, Goal 1: Maintain large, intact landscapes, Goal 2: Conserve landscape connectivity, Goal 2: Conserve landscape connectivity, Goal 3: Maintain hydrologic regimes, Goal 3: Maintain hydrologic regimes, Goal 4: Promote landscape-scale disturbances, Goal 4: Promote landscape-scale disturbances, Grizzly Bear, Grizzly Bear, Invasive Species, Invasive Species, LCC Network Science Catalog, Land Use Change, Land Use Change, MT-1, MT-1, Methodology/Protocol, Methodology/Protocol, Montana, Montana, Montana, Montana, Project, Regional & county planners, Regional & county planners, Rivers & Riparian Corridors, Rivers & Riparian Corridors, Rocky Mountain, Rocky Mountain, State agencies, State agencies, Sub-Alpine, Sub-Alpine, Website, Website, Whitebark Pine, Whitebark Pine, Wolverine, Wolverine, Woodland, Woodland, environment, environment, environment, onGoing, project, Fewer tags

Development of a Regional Springsnail Conservation Strategy

FY2017There is an increasing concern and need for the conservation of springsnails and other endemic mollusks and for conservation of the unique spring and springbrook habitats on which they depend (Hershler et al 2014; Abele 2011). Nationwide, several of these species have been listed as endangered or threatened under provisions of the ESA; others are candidates for federal listing or are undergoing review by USFWS for possible future listing actions. These species can be particularly susceptible to localized threats and specific knowledge necessary for effective site-based conservation is often limited or lacking.Springsnail are particularly susceptible to extinction because the entire population of any single...

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Academics & scientific researchers, California, Climate Change, Conservation Design, Conservation Planning, All tags... Federal resource managers, Goal 3: Maintain hydrologic regimes, Great Basin, Idaho, LCC Network Science Catalog, Nevada, Oregon, Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Project, Report, State agencies, aquatic, conservation biology, desert, endemic species, habitat conservation, land management, onGoing, species extinction, springsnails, Fewer tags

Understanding and Adapting To Climate Change in Aquatic Ecosystems at Landscape and River Basin Scales. A Decision Support Workshop for Integrating Research and Management

Workshop goals were to gather a diverse group of researchers and management professionals to focus on three objectives: Sharing current information regarding the effects of climate change on aquatic ecosystems Presenting analysis tools that could assist managers in addressing climate change Discussing management implications of climate change, the utility of existing tools, and future information & analysis needs

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Academics & scientific researchers, Alberta, Aquatic Connectivity, British Columbia, Bull Trout, All tags... CO-2, CO-3, Climate Change, Colorado, Colorado, Columbia Basin, Cutthroat Trout, Federal resource managers, GNLCC, Goal 2: Conserve landscape connectivity, Goal 3: Maintain hydrologic regimes, ID-1, ID-2, Idaho, Idaho, LCC Network Science Catalog, MT-1, Montana, Montana, OR-2, Oregon, Oregon, Presentation, Project, Riverine, Rivers & Riparian Corridors, Rocky Mountain, State agencies, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, Training/Outreach/Workshop, UT-1, Utah, Utah, WA-1, WA-2, WA-3, WA-4, WA-5, WA-8, WY-1, Washington, Washington, Wyoming, Wyoming, completed, Fewer tags