Identification of Fire Refugia in Rocky Mountain Ecosystems of the U.S. and Canada: Development and Application of the Refugium Concept for Biodiversity Conservation over Large Spatial and Temporal Scales

We will develop an approach to identify fire refugia in Rocky Mountain ecosystems of the U.S. and Canada then test the function of refugia for biodiversity conservation under current and future climate/fire scenarios. Our products will be designed to inform decision-making in land/easement acquisition, identification of critical areas for maintaining landscape and process connectivity/permeability, and extension of the temporal context for spatial conservation decision making. The approach will be testable for transferability to other locations and ecosystems.FY2013Objectives:The proposed project will provide a science application for focused resource conservation by developing and testing the concept of refugia...

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Alberta, British Columbia, Canada Lynx, Canadian Rockies, Canadian Rockies Greater Ecosystem, All tags... Climate Change, Conservation NGOs, Conservation Plan/Design/Framework, Data Acquisition and Development, Decision Support, Federal resource managers, Goal 2: Conserve landscape connectivity, Goal 4: Promote landscape-scale disturbances, Great Northern Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Greater Salmon-Selway Ecosystem, ID-1, ID-2, ID-2, ID-2, ID-2, Idaho, Idaho, LCC Network Science Catalog, Land Use Change, MT-1, MT-1, MT-1, MT-1, Map, Montana, Montana, Montana, Montana, Montana, Natural Fire Regimes, Project, Report, Rocky Mountain, Salmon-Selway Ecosystem, State agencies, WA-5, WA-5, WA-5, WA-5, Washington, Washington, Washington, Washington, Washington, climate refugia, completed, conservation of species and habitats, environment, fire refugia, Fewer tags

Landscape Conservation Design in the High Divide. An Analysis of Future Landscape Scenarios and Their Viability

The Heart of the Rockies Initiative (HOTR), on behalf of its High Divide Collaborative partners, seeks support to identify and evaluate future landscape configurations that address the needs of local communities while conserving the High Divides unique landscape resources. In this landscape we emphasize wildlife connectivity between large protected core areas: Yellowstone, the Crown, and central Idaho (See attached map). This project builds on our prior GNLCC-funded project to deliver the latest science in connectivity and climate response and earlier stakeholder identification of lands of high conservation value (HOTR 2010). This project takes the next step by coupling socio-economic data and trends with conservation...

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Alpine, Climate Change, Connectivity, Conservation Design, Conservation NGOs, All tags... Datasets/Database, Goal 1: Maintain large, intact landscapes, Goal 2: Conserve landscape connectivity, Goal 4: Promote landscape-scale disturbances, Grizzly Bear, Idaho, Informing Conservation Delivery, Insects & Forest Pathogens, LCC Network Science Catalog, Land Use Change, Map, Montana, Natural Fire Regimes, Project, Regional & county planners, Report, Riparian Areas, Rocky Mountain, Sage Shrub/Grassland, Socio-economics/Ecosystem Services, State agencies, Sub-Alpine, Woodland, Wyoming, environment, onGoing, Fewer tags

Science Support for Land Conservation in the Rocky Mountain Corridor

The Heart of the Rockies Initiative (HOTR), on behalf of its 24 land conservation non-governmental partners, and its federal and state agency partners, seeks a second year of science support to incorporate emerging data on landscape integrity and connectivity, crucial habitats, and climate change response into downscaled data layers that can help the partners identify and validate their immediate and longer term conservation targets.FY2013Objectives:The primary goal of the HOTR science support project is to deliver the latest science in climate adaptation and habitat connectivity conservation to conservation practitioners and their partners in the Central Rocky Mountain region. HOTR conservation partners want assurance...

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Alberta, British Columbia, Climate Change, Connectivity, Conservation Plan/Design/Framework, All tags... Conservation Planning, Crown of the Continent, Data Acquisition and Development, Datasets/Database, Federal resource managers, Goal 1: Maintain large, intact landscapes, Goal 2: Conserve landscape connectivity, Greater Sage-Grouse, Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem (GYE), Grizzly Bear, High Divide, ID-1, ID-2, ID-2, ID-2, ID-2, Idaho, Idaho, Informing Conservation Delivery, Invasive Species, LCC Network Science Catalog, Land Use Change, MT-1, MT-1, MT-1, MT-1, Montana, Montana, Montana, Montana, Montana, Natural Fire Regimes, OR-2, OR-2, OR-2, OR-2, Oregon, Oregon, Oregon, Oregon, Oregon, Private land owners, Project, Pronghorn, Regional & county planners, Report, Rivers & Riparian Corridors, Rocky Mountain, Sage Shrub/Grassland, Sage-Steppe, WY-1, WY-1, WY-1, WY-1, Washington, Wolverine, Woodland, Wyoming, Wyoming, Wyoming, Wyoming, Wyoming, completed, environment, Fewer tags

Positioning the Sage Steppe Partner Forum as a pivotal communication tool for Sagebrush Biome conservation implementation (project not executed, funding reprioritized)

The Great Northern Landscape Conservation Cooperative (GNLCC) is sponsoring the Sage Steppe Partner Forum to help facilitate collaboration among conservation practitioners and partnerships that share landscape conservation challenges in an eco-geographic context. Draft Partner Forum guidance suggests that field-level managers, scientists, and conservation constituents will, through a loosely structured process, identify priority conservation information and scientific needs that fall within the scope of the Great Northern LCC Strategic Conservation Framework.The sagebrush-steppe biome covers some 480,000 square miles in 14 western states and provinces expanding the SSPF challenge to areas outside the GNLCC geography....

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: British Columbia, Burrowing Owl, California, Climate Change, Colorado, All tags... Columbia Basin, Connectivity, Conservation Planning, Data Acquisition and Development, Datasets/Database, Federal resource managers, Goal 1: Maintain large, intact landscapes, Goal 2: Conserve landscape connectivity, Goal 4: Promote landscape-scale disturbances, Greater Sage-Grouse, Idaho, Informing Conservation Delivery, Invasive Species, LCC Network Science Catalog, Land Use Change, Montana, Mule deer, Natural Fire Regimes, Nevada, Oregon, Policy makers & regulators, Project, Pronghorn, Pygmy Rabbit, Riparian Areas, Sage Shrub/Grassland, Sage-Steppe, State agencies, Utah, Washington, Website, Wyoming, completed, environment, Fewer tags