State of Wyoming Geospatial Data Management, Information Sharing and Preparation for Decision Support System Development - Migration Corridors

WGFD has a quantity of GPS-based animal movement data available for processing. In order to fully integrate this data into existing statewide migration route data layers and/or to use it to develop modeled migration corridor data layers, it must be reviewed, organized appropriately, analyzed, modeled and finally structured to allow seamless integration. The objective of this proposal is to review and examine the data, organize it meaningfully, and present it initially in combination with existing migration routes in order to represent generalized big game migration corridors across the landscapes of Wyoming. This is anticipated as a “first look” product, and serve as a basis for future work to more fully analyze...

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2010, 2012, CO-2, CO-3, CO-3, All tags... CO-3, CO-3, CO-3, Colorado, Colorado, Connectivity, Data Acquisition and Development, Data Acquisition and Development, Data Management, Data Management and Integration, Data Management and Integration, Datasets/Database, Datasets/Database, EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LANDSCAPE, FY 2012, Federal resource managers, Federal resource managers, Goal 2: Conserve landscape connectivity, Great Northern Landscape Conservation Cooperative, ID-2, ID-2, ID-2, ID-2, ID-2, Idaho, Idaho, Idaho, Idaho, Idaho, Interested public, Interested public, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, Land Use Change, MT-1, MT-1, MT-1, MT-1, MT-1, Map, Map, Montana, Montana, Montana, Montana, Montana, Montana, Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Project, Report, Report, Riparian Areas, Rivers & Riparian Corridors, Rocky Mountain, Sage Shrub/Grassland, Sage-Steppe, State agencies, State agencies, UT-1, UT-1, UT-1, UT-1, UT-1, Utah, Utah, Utah, Utah, Utah, Utah, WY-1, WY-1, WY-1, WY-1, WY-1, Woodland, Wyoming, Wyoming, Wyoming, completed, decision support, environment, northwest, Fewer tags

Conserving an Intact and Connected GNLCC Landscape

In May 2014, the GNLCC Steering Committee approved two pilot projects explore approaches to landscape-scale coordination to enhance science-based management across the GNLCC. The two ‘Shared Landscape Outcomes’ pilots were designed to assess and focus on specific pairs of a GNLCC Goal and a priority landscape stressor (as defined in the Strategic Conservation Framework) and focus the approach at the entire GNLCC scale. The two pilot projects focused on (1) the Connectivity goal and Land Use Change stressor (described here) and (2) the Aquatic Integrity goal and Invasives stressor and (see: http://greatnorthernlcc.org/PTS/prj_report.html?PRJ_ID=403 )Connectivity Pilot:Wildlife species are becoming increasingly isolated...

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Alberta, Aquatic Connectivity, British Columbia, Bull Trout, Cascadia, All tags... Climate Change, Colorado, 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, Grizzly Bear, Idaho, Informing Conservation Delivery, Invasive Species, LCC Network Science Catalog, Land Use Change, Montana, Oregon, Project, Pronghorn, Regional & county planners, Report, Riparian Areas, Rocky Mountain, Sage Shrub/Grassland, Sage-Steppe, State agencies, Utah, Washington, Watershed Uplands, Wolverine, Woodland, Wyoming, environment, onGoing, Fewer tags

Applying Vulnerability Assessment Tools to Plan for Climate Adaptation: Case Studies in the Great Northern LCC

This project will apply the results of an on-going climate change vulnerability assessment to the management of two complex landscapes. The vulnerability assessment project team will work with mangers, land-owners, and conservation practitioners to explore 1) how downscaled climate datasets, modeled vegetation changes, and information on estimated species sensitivities can be used to develop climate change adaptation strategies, and 2) how model results and datasets can be made more useful for informing the management of species and landscapes. To accomplish these two goals, we will prepare datasets and model outputs for two landscapespotentially, the Pioneer Mountains-Craters of the Moon region in Idaho and the...

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Climate Change, Columbia Basin, Columbia Plateau, Connectivity, Conservation Plan/Design/Framework, All tags... Federal resource managers, Goal 1: Maintain large, intact landscapes, Goal 2: Conserve landscape connectivity, Goal 4: Promote landscape-scale disturbances, Greater Sage-Grouse, ID-1, ID-2, ID-2, ID-2, Idaho, Idaho, Invasive Species, LCC Network Science Catalog, Land Use Change, Mule deer, OR-2, OR-2, OR-2, Oregon, Oregon, Oregon, Oregon, Pioneer Mountains-Craters of the Moon, Policy makers & regulators, Project, Pronghorn, Report, Riparian Areas, Rocky Mountain, Sage Shrub/Grassland, Sage-Steppe, State agencies, Vulnerability Assessment, WA-3, WA-3, WA-3, WA-4, WA-4, WA-4, WA-5, WA-5, WA-5, WA-8, WA-8, WA-8, Washington, Washington, Washington, Washington, completed, environment, Fewer tags

Providing High Resolution Connectivity Maps for Greater Sage-grouse in the Great Northern Landscape Using State of the Art Genomics

Greater sage-grouse genetic connectivity is essential to the species persistence across the Great Northern landscape; without such connectivity the greater sage-grouse may suffer the same fate as many other related species of grouse, which disappeared from the middle and eastern portion of the United States due to loss of habitat coupled with inbreeding depression. To prevent isolation in the face of energy development and other landscape changes it is essential that we evaluate both fine-scale connectivity and assign relative importance to different leks (breeding populations) on the landscape. This massive task cannot be accomplished with existing tools and maps; fortunately, advanced molecular genomic analyses...

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2012, AZ-1, Academics & scientific researchers, Alberta, Arizona, All tags... Arizona, CA-1, CA-1, CA-1, CA-4, CA-4, CA-4, CA-8, CA-8, CA-8, CO-2, CO-2, CO-2, CO-3, CO-3, CO-3, CO-4, CO-4, CO-4, CO-5, CO-5, CO-5, California, California, California, California, Climate Change, Co, Co, Co, Colorado, Colorado Plateau Management Zone, Columbia Basin Management Zone, Data Acquisition and Development, FY 2012, Federal resource managers, Goal 2: Conserve landscape connectivity, Great Plains Management Zone, Greater Sage-Grouse, ID-1, ID-1, ID-1, ID-2, ID-2, ID-2, Idaho, Informing Conservation Delivery, LCC Network Science Catalog, Land Use Change, MT-1, MT-1, MT-1, Map, Methodology/Protocol, Monitoring, Montana, ND-1, ND-1, ND-1, NE-3, NE-3, NE-3, NM-3, NM-3, NM-3, NV-2, NV-2, NV-2, NV-4, NV-4, NV-4, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Northern Great Basin Management Zone, OR-2, OR-2, OR-2, OR-4, OR-4, OR-4, Oregon, Project, Publication, Rocky Mountain, SD-1, SD-1, SD-1, Sage Shrub/Grassland, Sage-Steppe, Saskatchewan, Snake River Plain Management Zone, South Dakota, Southern Great Basin Management Zone, State agencies, UT-1, UT-1, UT-1, UT-2, UT-2, UT-2, UT-3, UT-3, UT-3, UT-4, UT-4, UT-4, Utah, WA-3, WA-3, WA-3, WA-4, WA-4, WA-4, WA-5, WA-5, WA-5, WA-8, WA-8, WA-8, WY-1, WY-1, WY-1, Washington, Wyoming, Wyoming Basins Management Zone, completed, environment, Fewer tags

SageSTEP Longterm Ecological Monitoring Network

Proposed work will monitor for five years vegetation, fuels, wildlife, insects, and weather at 10 Sagebrush Steppe Treatment Evaluation Project (SageSTEP) sites, all of which have been treated to reduce either juniper encroachment (woodland sites) or cheatgrass invasion (sagebrush/cheatgrass sites). Monitoring of treatment response over the long term will lead to a better understanding of the extent to which managers can manipulate vegetation, fuels, and wildlife habitat in the context of climate change.FY2010Objectives:1) assess longterm trajectories in populations of key plant and animal species, and link these trajectories to management restoration treatments and to climate change; 2) measure total ecosystem...

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Academics & scientific researchers, Columbia Basin, Ecological Monitoring, Federal resource managers, Goal 4: Promote landscape-scale disturbances, All tags... Invasive Species, LCC Network Science Catalog, Land Use Change, Monitoring, OR-2, Oregon, Oregon, Project, Report, Sage Shrub/Grassland, Sage Step Bridge Creek 5mi Buffer, Sage Step Devine Rdge 5mi Buffer, Sage Step Moses Coulee 5mi Buffer, Sage Step Saddle Mtn 5mi Buffer, Sage-Steppe, SageSTEP, Training/Outreach/Workshop, WA-4, WA-4, WA-4, Washington, Washington, Washington, Washington, Website, completed, environment, Fewer tags

Landscape Conservation Design in the Columbia Plateau Ecoregion

The Pacific Region National Wildlife Refuge System developed a strategic approach to identify region-wide land/habitat conservation priorities. This approach was piloted in the Columbia Plateau Ecoregion and resulted in a high-level landscape-scale conservation design. Working closely with conservation partners in the region, we developed a data management and analysis model that builds from existing data sets and can be shared easily with other partners.FY20122012 Objectives: Document a case study on implementing strategic conservation design for the refuge system, which can serve as a model and be applied to other geographic areas Develop a clear picture of landscape scale priorities in the Columbia Plateau, along...

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Applications and Tools, Aquatic Connectivity, CA-1, California, California, All tags... Climate Change, Columbia Basin, Columbia Plateau, Columbia Plateau, Connectivity, Conservation Design, Conservation Planning, Data Acquisition and Development, Datasets/Database, Ecoregion, Federal resource managers, 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-2, ID-2, ID-2, Idaho, Idaho, Idaho, Idaho, Invasive Species, LCC Network Science Catalog, Land Use Change, NV-2, NV-2, NV-2, Nevada, Nevada, Nevada, Nevada, OR-2, OR-2, OR-2, Oregon, Oregon, Oregon, Oregon, Project, Regional & county planners, Report, Riparian Areas, Riverine, Sage Shrub/Grassland, Sage-Steppe, State agencies, UT-1, UT-1, UT-1, Utah, Utah, Utah, Utah, WA-3, WA-3, WA-3, WA-4, WA-4, WA-4, WA-5, WA-5, WA-5, WA-8, WA-8, WA-8, WY-1, WY-1, WY-1, Washington, Washington, Washington, Washington, Watershed Uplands, Wyoming, Wyoming, Wyoming, Wyoming, completed, environment, Fewer tags

Facilitation Needs for GLNCC Columbia Basin Partner Forum

The Great Northern Landscape Conservation Cooperative (GLNCC) has convened the Columbia Basin Partner Forum (CBPF) to help facilitate collaboration among conservation practitioners and partnerships that share landscape conservation challenges in an eco-geographic context. Through a loosely structured process, field-level managers, scientists, and conservation constituents will identify priority conservation information, scientific needs, and implementation opportunities within the scope of the Great Northern LCC Strategic Conservation Framework. The CBPF will also provide a means to engage the partnership network (a more diverse and directly knowledgeable constituency) on specific conservation needs that will inform...

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Alberta, Aquatic Connectivity, British Columbia, Climate Change, Columbia Basin, All tags... Columbia Basin, Connectivity, Conservation Plan/Design/Framework, Conservation Planning, Federal resource managers, Goal 2: Conserve landscape connectivity, Goal 3: Maintain hydrologic regimes, Goal 4: Promote landscape-scale disturbances, Idaho, Informing Conservation Delivery, Invasive Species, LCC Network Science Catalog, Land Use Change, Montana, Oregon, Partner Forum, Project, Riverine, Sage Shrub/Grassland, Salmon, State agencies, Training/Outreach/Workshop, Tribes, Washington, Watershed Uplands, Website, Wetlands, Wyoming, environment, onGoing, 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

Washington Connectivity: Statewide

The Washington Connected Landscapes Project will provide a framework to address the interacting impacts of habitat fragmentation and climate change on ecological systems and wildlife species within the Great Northern Landscape Conservation Cooperative (GNLCC) boundary.Managing for well-connected landscapes is a key strategy to enhance resilience and ensure the long-term viability of plant and animal populations. However, conservation planning efforts have rarely included connectivity for ecological processes such as dispersal, migration, and gene flow. Connectivity conservation is particularly important in the face of climate change, because many species will require highly permeable, well-connected landscapes not...

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Alberta, Alberta, Applications and Tools, British Columbia, British Columbia, All tags... British Columbia, Burrowing Owl, Climate Change, Columbia Basin, Connectivity, Decision Support, Federal resource managers, Goal 1: Maintain large, intact landscapes, Goal 2: Conserve landscape connectivity, Greater Sage-Grouse, ID-1, Idaho, Idaho, Informing Conservation Delivery, LCC Network Science Catalog, Land Use Change, MT-1, MT-1, MT-1, Montana, Montana, Montana, Montana, Mule deer, OR-2, OR-2, OR-2, Oregon, Oregon, Oregon, Oregon, Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Portions of Washington, Project, Regional & county planners, Riparian Areas, Sage Shrub/Grassland, Sage-Steppe, State agencies, WA-1, WA-1, WA-1, WA-2, WA-2, WA-2, WA-3, WA-3, WA-3, WA-4, WA-4, WA-4, WA-5, WA-5, WA-5, WA-8, WA-8, WA-8, Washington, Washington, Washington, Washington, Website, and British Columbia, completed, environment, Fewer tags

Integrating Landscape Conservation Design into Partner Actions in the Columbia Plateau Ecoregion

This project will integrate the shared priorities developed by the Arid Lands Initiative (ALI) in the Columbia Plateau ecoregion into implementation mechanisms of existing and new ALI partners. The project will finalize the ALIs comprehensive strategy by assessing and agreeing on which partners are best positioned to implement which priority actions in which priority areas, integrate these priorities into existing partner work, identify gaps that new partners need to be engaged to address, design 1-2 ALI projects for collaborative implementation, and track and adapt the overall implementation efforts. This project will not only allow the ALI to successfully transition from planning to coordinated action, but will...

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Aquatic Connectivity, CA-1, California, California, Climate Change, All tags... Columbia Basin, Columbia Plateau ecoregion, Connectivity, Conservation Planning, Federal resource managers, Goal 1: Maintain large, intact landscapes, Goal 2: Conserve landscape connectivity, Greater Sage-Grouse, ID-1, ID-1, ID-1, ID-2, ID-2, ID-2, Idaho, Idaho, Idaho, Idaho, Informing Conservation Delivery, LCC Network Science Catalog, Land Use Change, Landscape Conservation Design, Map, Mule deer, NV-2, NV-2, NV-2, Nevada, Nevada, Nevada, Nevada, OR-2, OR-2, OR-2, Oregon, Oregon, Oregon, Oregon, Project, Regional & county planners, Report, Riparian Areas, Riverine, Sage Shrub/Grassland, Socio-economics/Ecosystem Services, State agencies, UT-1, UT-1, UT-1, Utah, Utah, Utah, Utah, WA-3, WA-3, WA-3, WA-4, WA-4, WA-4, WA-5, WA-5, WA-5, WA-8, WA-8, WA-8, WY-1, WY-1, WY-1, Washington, Washington, Washington, Washington, Watershed Uplands, Wyoming, Wyoming, Wyoming, Wyoming, completed, environment, Fewer tags

Species Adaptations to Climate Change: Baseline Data for Grassland, Sagebrush, and Riparian - Associated Landbirds in Bird Conservation Region 10

This region-wide coordinated bird monitoring program, supported by state, federal, tribal, nongovernmental organizations, and two statewide bird conservation partnerships, is designed to provide spatially-referenced baseline data for science-based biological planning and conservation design for the Great Northern LCC and its partners that is directly comparable with other landscapes and BCRs. We are requesting a third year of funding to continue sampling in BCR10 Montana and Idaho to enhance our ability to make robust inference to bird populations on grassland, shrublands, and riparian systems. These data currently are being used by project partners to develop spatially-explicit models that will allow assessment...

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Applications and Tools, BCR 10, Baseline Data, Climate Change, Data Acquisition and Development, All tags... Datasets/Database, Federal resource managers, Goal 2: Conserve landscape connectivity, ID-1, ID-2, 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, MT-1, Montana, Montana, Montana, Montana, Montana, Montana, Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Project, Report, Riparian Areas, Rocky Mountain, Sage Shrub/Grassland, Sage-Steppe, State agencies, Tribes, WY-1, WY-1, WY-1, WY-1, WY-1, Woodland, Wyoming, Wyoming, Wyoming, Wyoming, Wyoming, Wyoming, completed, environment, Fewer tags

Protocols for assessing impacts of wind energy development on greater sage-grouse

These protocols are intended to identify key questions to be addressed, preferred approaches to addressing these questions, and issues likely to be encountered by scientists studying impacts of wind energy development on sage-grouse. I discuss advantages and disadvantages of possible study designs. A full BACI (Before After Control Impact) design with five years of preconstruction data and at least five years of post-construction data that estimates fundamental demographic parameters and habitat selection over a distance gradient from wind facilities provides the strongest design. Research proposals considered for funding by the GS3C-Sage-Grouse Collaborative will be evaluated based on their abilities to adhere...

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Academics & scientific researchers, Federal resource managers, Goal 1: Maintain large, intact landscapes, Greater Sage-Grouse, Idaho, All tags... LCC Network Science Catalog, Land Use Change, Methodology/Protocol, Montana, Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Project, Report, Rocky Mountain, Sage Shrub/Grassland, Sage-Steppe, South Dakota, State agencies, Utah, WY-1, Wyoming, Wyoming, completed, environment, Fewer tags

Washington Connectivity: Columbia Basin

Our 2010 statewide connectivity analysis identified broad-scale priority areas for connectivity conservation. More detailed, finer-scale analyses will give land managers the information they need to begin prioritizing and implementing conservation actions. The Columbia Plateau (Appendix A, Fig. 1) was selected for the first ecoregional-scale analysis for two reasons. First, several climate models suggest that the Columbia Plateau Ecoregion in Washington is likely to be a stronghold of shrubsteppe ecosystems under climate change. Second, despite the high level of habitat loss and fragmentation in the ecoregion, our statewide analysis identified previously undocumented patterns and opportunities for multiple-species...

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Burrowing Owl, CA-1, California, California, Climate Change, All tags... Columbia Basin, Columbia Plateau Ecoregion, Connectivity, Data Acquisition and Development, Datasets/Database, Decision Support, EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LANDSCAPE, Federal resource managers, Goal 1: Maintain large, intact landscapes, Goal 2: Conserve landscape connectivity, Greater Sage-Grouse, ID-1, ID-1, ID-1, ID-1, ID-2, ID-2, ID-2, ID-2, Idaho, Idaho, Idaho, Idaho, Idaho, Informing Conservation Delivery, LCC Network Science Catalog, Land Use Change, Map, Mule deer, NV-2, NV-2, NV-2, NV-2, Nevada, Nevada, Nevada, Nevada, Nevada, OR-2, OR-2, OR-2, OR-2, Oregon, Oregon, Oregon, Oregon, Oregon, Project, Report, Riparian Areas, Sage Shrub/Grassland, Sage-Grouse, Sage-Steppe, State agencies, UT-1, UT-1, UT-1, UT-1, Utah, Utah, Utah, Utah, Utah, 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, Watershed Uplands, Wetlands, Wyoming, Wyoming, Wyoming, Wyoming, Wyoming, completed, environment, Fewer tags

Montana Capacity Support for Decision Support System Development

Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks (MTFWP) has been involved with developing a crucial areas statewide Decision Support System (DSS) since 2008 in parallel with activities from the Western Governors Association (WGA). In April, 2010, the Crucial Areas Planning System (CAPS) was released. Also in 2010, the WGA provided funding to the 18 western states to begin developing DSSs for crucial areas among and between the 18 western states. MTFWP will be piloting a transboundary DSS for fish, wildlife, and habitats along the Idaho-Montana Divide, beginning in July 2010. MTFWP will also participating in a dual role of advisory and collaboration with the Washington, Oregon and Idaho Columbia Plateau pilot project.This...

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Alberta, Alpine, Alpine Lakes, Applications and Tools, British Columbia, All tags... CAPS, CO-3, Canada Lynx, Colorado, Colorado, Connectivity, Data Management and Integration, Datasets/Database, Decision Support, Federal resource managers, Goal 1: Maintain large, intact landscapes, Goal 2: Conserve landscape connectivity, Grizzly Bear, ID-1, ID-1, ID-1, ID-2, ID-2, ID-2, Idaho, Idaho, Idaho, Idaho, Idaho-Montana Divide and Washington, LCC Network Science Catalog, Land Use Change, MT-1, MT-1, MT-1, Montana, Montana, Montana, Montana, OR-2, OR-2, OR-2, Oregon, Oregon, Oregon, Oregon, Oregon and Idaho Columbia Plateau, Project, Report, Rivers & Riparian Corridors, Rocky Mountain, Sage Shrub/Grassland, State agencies, Sub-Alpine, Tribes, Trumpeter Swan, UT-1, UT-1, UT-1, Utah, Utah, Utah, Utah, WA-1, WA-1, WA-1, WA-2, WA-2, WA-2, WA-3, WA-3, WA-3, WA-4, WA-4, WA-4, WA-5, WA-5, WA-5, WA-8, WA-8, WA-8, WY-1, WY-1, WY-1, Washington, Washington, Washington, Washington, Whitebark Pine, Wolverine, Woodland, 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

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, Idaho, Idaho, Informing Conservation Delivery, Invasive Species, LCC Network Science Catalog, Land Use Change, MT-1, MT-1, MT-1, Montana, Montana, Montana, Montana, Natural Fire Regimes, OR-2, OR-2, OR-2, 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, Washington, Wolverine, Woodland, Wyoming, Wyoming, Wyoming, Wyoming, completed, environment, Fewer tags

Collaborative efforts to inform the science, management and policies of First Foods of the Cayuse, Walla Walla and Umatilla

The Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation (CTUIR) has been working collaboratively with the Bureau of Land Management and US Forest Service (USFS) to inventory and map current and potential distributions of plant communities which support species of cultural concern on federal lands. This project will continue this collaborative effort to develop plant community information and GIS datasets about three culturally important plant species located throughout the Columbia basin which are impacted by climate change, land use, invasive species, and increased incidence and severity of fire. We will help initiate determination of historical, current and likely future distribution and productivity in the...

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Climate Change, Columbia Basin, Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation, Decision Support, Federal resource managers, All tags... First Foods, Goal 4: Promote landscape-scale disturbances, Goal 5: Sustain local, place-based land use values, LCC Network Science Catalog, Land Use Change, Map, OR-2, Oregon, Project, Report, Sage Shrub/Grassland, Sage-Steppe, State agencies, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, Tribes, Vulnerability Assessment, Watershed Uplands, completed, environment, Fewer tags

GNLCC Partner Project: Conservation Efforts Database

The Conservation Efforts Database is a joint effort by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Services and U.S. Geological Survey to collect data on federally listed candidate, threatened, and endangered species. The goal of the Conservation Efforts Database is to efficiently and effectively collect and analyze ongoing conservation efforts for unlisted, candidate, and listed species alike. Understanding the distribution and type of conservation actions happening across the landscape will allow visualization and quantification of the extent to which threats are being addressed. Currently (2015), this database contains only information on the Greater sage-grouse. However, it could also be useful beyond Greater sage-grouse conservation...

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Applications and Tools, Climate Change, Columbia Basin, Data Acquisition and Development, Data Management and Integration, All tags... Federal resource managers, Goal 1: Maintain large, intact landscapes, Goal 4: Promote landscape-scale disturbances, Greater Sage-Grouse, Informing Conservation Delivery, Invasive Species, LCC Network Science Catalog, Land Use Change, Policy makers & regulators, Project, Rocky Mountain, Sage Grouse Conservation Efforts, Sage Shrub/Grassland, Sage Steppe Biom, Sage Steppe Biome, Sage-Steppe, State agencies, environment, onGoing, Fewer tags

Long-term Changes in Environmental Characteristics Required by Sage-grouse Predicted under Climate Change

Sagebrush (Artemisia spp.)-dominated shrublands are one of the most widespread ecosystems in western North America but also among the most imperiled due to interactions among land use, fire, and exotic plants. Global climate change models predict an accelerated loss of sagebrush due to synergistic feedbacks among disturbance patterns and vegetation response; only 20% would remain under the most extreme scenario of >6 C increase by the end of this century (Fig. 1). Much of the current sagebrush distribution within the Great Northern Landscape Conservation Cooperative (GNLCC) would be lost. The conservation status of Greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus), the most visible of >350 plant and wildlife species...

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