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Identifying conservation corridors and transboundary linkages for wolverines in the Canadian Crown of the Continent ecosystem The Canadian portion of the Crown of the Continent (CCoC) ecosystem has been identified as crucial for wolverines north of the US border to rescue or supply individuals and genes through dispersal to the highly fragmented population in the northern US Rocky Mountains. Highway 3, motorized recreation, and a growing resource extraction industry, however, increasingly fragment this critical landscape. This project will capitalize on multi-year wolverine occupancy and genetic data collected noninvasively in a >40,000 km2 area encompassing the core protected areas of the central Canadian Rocky Mountains to the north; and Glacier-Waterton Lakes National Park complex in the south. Our goal is to obtain spatially-explicit... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Alberta, Alpine, Applications and Tools, British Columbia, Climate Change, All tags... Connectivity, Crown of the Continent (CCoC) Ecosystem, Data Acquisition and Development, Decision Support, Federal resource managers, Goal 2: Conserve landscape connectivity, ID-1, Idaho, Idaho, LCC Network Science Catalog, Land Use Change, MT-1, MT-1, MT-1, MT-1, Map, Monitoring, Montana, Montana, Montana, Montana, Montana, Project, Rocky Mountain, State agencies, Tribes, WA-5, WA-5, WA-5, WA-5, Washington, Washington, Washington, Washington, Washington, Wolverine, completed, environment, wolverines, Fewer tags 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, 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, ID-2, Idaho, 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, MT-1, Map, Map, Montana, 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, UT-1, Utah, Utah, Utah, Utah, Utah, Utah, Utah, WY-1, WY-1, WY-1, WY-1, WY-1, WY-1, Woodland, Wyoming, Wyoming, Wyoming, completed, decision support, environment, northwest, Fewer tags Using the Conservation Registry as a visualization tool for the Great Northern Landscape Conservation Cooperative Defenders staff, contractors and Great Northern Landscape Conservation Cooperative partners will build a portal on the Conservation Registry to visualize landscape scale plans and conservation projects that address the priorities of the program. The portal will integrate with GN LCCs existing project management tool, LC Map, to spatially display plans within the geographic area of the LCC, provide information about the plans, and link to planning documents. services and/or data imports will be programmed to facilitate efficient transfer of project data from LC Map and other agencies and organizations into the Registry. FY2012Objectives: Coordination with Heart of the Rockies (HotR) staff to identify focal area,... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Academics & scientific researchers, Alberta, British Columbia, Climate Change, Connectivity, All tags... Conservation NGOs, Crown of the Continent, Data Management and Integration, Goal 2: Conserve landscape connectivity, Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem (GYE), High Divide, ID-1, ID-2, Idaho, Idaho, LCC Network Science Catalog, MT-1, Montana, Montana, OR-2, Oregon, Oregon, Project, Report, Sage-Steppe, WY-1, Washington, Website, Wyoming, Wyoming, completed, Fewer tags Landscape Connectivity of Isolated Waters for Wildlife in the Sonoran Desert Texas Tech University will conduct quantitative and predictive analysis of the connectivity of isolated desert “wetlands”, that include tinajas, the name for eroded pools in bedrock, for 20 wildlife species over the Sonoran desert ecoregion. Potential loss of wetlands due to climate change will also be studied to identify high value areas that can be prioritized for future restoration efforts and targeted for better management practices.Target species for landscape connectivity analysis include:Colorado River toad ( Incilius alverius )American bullfrog ( Lithobates catesbeianus )Chiricahua leopard frog ( Lithobates chiricahuensis )Lowland leopard frog ( Lithobates yavapaiensis )Couch’s spadefoot ( Scaphiopus couchii... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2013, AZ-01, AZ-02, AZ-03, AZ-04, All tags... Academics & scientific researchers, Applications and Tools, Arizona, CA-36, CA-50, CA-51, California, Conservation Design, Conservation NGOs, Conservation Plan/Design/Framework, Datasets/Database, Decision Support, Desert Landscape Conservation Cooperative, EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOSYSTEMS > TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS > WETLANDS, Federal resource managers, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, Project, Sonoran Desert, Transboundary Madrean Watersheds Pilot Area, United States, Vulnerability Assessment, biota, completed, connectivity, southwestern United States, water, wetlands, wildlife, Fewer tags Prioritizing Sites for Habitat Restoration to Enhance Connectivity in the Upper Midwest Species are adapted to particular environmental conditions, but are threatened as climate change shifts habitat conditions. One way species can respond is by moving to new suitable locations, known as climate-driven range shifts. But some species can move more easily and/or more quickly than others, and some landscapes are more difficult to cross. In the upper Midwest, the movement potential of many species is reduced by broad expanses of row-crop agriculture, roads and other types of development that fragment the remaining habitat. It is important to sustain and improve connectivity across landscapes so they can continue to support biodiversity and ecosystem services like water filtration, carbon storage, pollinator... Categories: Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2023, CASC, Landscapes, Landscapes, Midwest, All tags... Midwest CASC, Plants, Plants, Projects by Region, Science Tools for Managers, Science Tools for Managers, Wildlife and Plants, Wildlife and Plants, co-benefits, connectivity, restoration, 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: https://www.fws.gov/science/catalog )Connectivity Pilot:Wildlife species are becoming increasingly isolated in patches of habitat,... 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, ID-2, Idaho, Idaho, Invasive Species, LCC Network Science Catalog, Land Use Change, Mule deer, OR-2, OR-2, OR-2, OR-2, Oregon, 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-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, Washington, Washington, Washington, Washington, Washington, completed, environment, Fewer tags Effects of Treatments on the Connectivity and Fragmentation of Wildlife Populations across the Great Basin FY2016This project will evaluate the effects of vegetation treatments on population connectivity, genetic diversity and gene flow of wildlife species across the full extent of the Great Basin LCC. The recently approved BLM and Forest Service Land Use Plan Amendments will implement millions of acres of treatments in support of greater sage-grouse conservation. It is essential to evaluate the potential benefits and risks of these treatments on the connectivity and fragmentation of the landscape for multiple non-target species. We will use a dynamic landscape model to simulate fire and treatments, allowing each to vary by type (e.g., juniper removal, prescribed fire), extent, and influence on vegetation and fuels.... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Academics & scientific researchers, Applications and Tools, CA1, CA1, CA1, All tags... CA1, CA4, CA4, CA4, CA4, CA8, CA8, CA8, CA8, Conservation Planning, Datasets/Database, Federal resource managers, Great Basin, Great Basin, Great Basin, Great Basin, Great Basin, ID1, ID1, ID1, ID1, ID2, ID2, ID2, ID2, LCC Network Science Catalog, NV2, NV2, NV2, NV2, NV4, NV4, NV4, NV4, OR1, OR2, OR2, OR2, OR2, Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Project, Report, State agencies, UT1, UT1, UT1, UT1, UT2, UT2, UT2, UT2, UT4, UT4, UT4, UT4, conifer, conifer, conifer, conifer, connectivity, connectivity, connectivity, connectivity, juniper, onGoing, projections, projections, projections, projections, restoration, restoration, restoration, restoration, species impacts, species impacts, species impacts, species impacts, Fewer tags Strategic conservation planning for management applications in Cascadia The Cascadia Partner Forum will complete conservation design for four Great Northern Landscape Conservation Cooperative conservation targets with significance to the transboundary Cascadia landscape to inform sound, data-driven management planning and action. This project aims to complete conservation design at the Cascadia-wide scale for grizzly bear, salmon, aquatic, and terrestrial connectivity to contribute to the Great Northern LCC Science Plan, while providing input and integration to the coarser-scale GNLCC-wide Science Plans established objectives, threats, metrics, and conservation actions for each target. Additionally, the Forum will conduct analyses on a common Great Northern LCC landscape stressor roads... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Aquatic Connectivity, British Columbia, Bull Trout, Canada Lynx, Cascadia, All tags... Cascadia, Climate Change, Connectivity, Conservation Plan/Design/Framework, Conservation Planning, Decision Support, Federal resource managers, Goal 1: Maintain large, intact landscapes, Goal 2: Conserve landscape connectivity, Goal 3: Maintain hydrologic regimes, Grizzly Bear, LCC Network Science Catalog, Land Use Change, OR-2, OR-4, OR-4, OR-4, OR-4, OR-4, Oregon, Oregon, Project, Regional & county planners, Report, Salmon, State agencies, WA-1, WA-1, WA-1, WA-1, WA-1, WA-2, WA-2, WA-2, WA-2, WA-2, WA-3, WA-3, WA-3, WA-3, WA-3, WA-4, WA-4, WA-4, WA-4, WA-4, WA-8, WA-8, WA-8, WA-8, WA-8, Washington, Washington, Washington, Washington, Washington, Washington, Website, environment, onGoing, transboundary Cascadia landscape, Fewer tags PNW Coast Blueprint Connectivity The Lower Columbia River and adjacent coastal regions of Oregon and Washington contain a rich diversity of natural and cultural resources managed by a complex array of tribal sovereign nations, federal/state/local agencies, non-government conservation organizations, landowners, stakeholders and others. But our region lacks a current, comprehensive, landscape-scale blueprint that can be used to drive and align conservation efforts to achieve landscape-scale goals in response to stressors, such as climate change, energy development, and land/water use practices. In response to this need, the North Pacific Landscape Conservation Cooperative and US Fish and Wildlife Service Region 1 has initiated a Landscape Conservation... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Connectivity, Conservation Design, Conservation Planning, Decision Support, Federal resource managers, All tags... LCC Network Science Catalog, LCC Network Science Catalog - LCCScienceCatalog, Landscape Conservation Design, Northwest Coast, OR-1, OR-2, OR-3, OR-4, OR-5, Oregon, Pacific Coastal Ecoregion, Project, Regional & county planners, State agencies, WA-1, WA-3, WA-4, WA-6, WA-8, Washington, completed, Fewer tags Landscape Connectivity of a Sagebrush Obligate: Functional Continuity of Habitat for the Pygmy Rabbit FY2014Land management agencies seek to understand how organisms use the landscape in order to develop management strategies that maintain healthy, resilient communities that have the ecological and evolutionary potential to respond to climate change. An ideal approach to understanding how organisms move through the landscape is by inferring ongoing and historic movements from patterns of genetic continuity that characterize regional sets of populations. From patterns of genetic connectivity we can infer the habitat and landscape characteristics that facilitate animal movement and species range shifts over both short and long timescales. Knowing the spatial distribution of critical linkages or corridors allows conservation... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Academics & scientific researchers, Conservation Planning, Datasets/Database, Decision Support, Federal resource managers, All tags... Great Basin, Great Basin, LCC Network Science Catalog, NV2, NV4, NV4, NV4, NV4, Nevada, Nevada, Nevada, Nevada, Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Project, Publication, State agencies, climate change, climate change, climate change, climate change, connectivity, connectivity, connectivity, connectivity, corridor, corridor, corridor, corridor, modeling, modeling, modeling, modeling, onGoing, pygmy rabbit, pygmy rabbit, pygmy rabbit, pygmy rabbit, 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-1, ID-2, ID-2, ID-2, ID-2, Idaho, Idaho, Idaho, Idaho, Idaho, Invasive Species, LCC Network Science Catalog, Land Use Change, 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, Regional & county planners, Report, Riparian Areas, Riverine, Sage Shrub/Grassland, 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, Wyoming, 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 Sustaining the FishWerks webtool: planning for long-term access and usability to support decisions on connectivity restoration Online decision support tools are proliferating to serve the needs of environmental managers and conservation practitioners, but most are static after their creation. Aging software components and datasets can lead to rapid obsolescence or inoperable tools. In the Great Lakes basin, the Fishwerks webtool represents years of investment in database, website, and analytical development to support decisions about site selection for removing barriers to fish migrations. The website is approaching a critical juncture where usability assessments and long-term planning are needed to ensure its continued value to the user community. There are also technical needs for website refinement, database customization and management,... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Academics & scientific researchers, Applications and Tools, Conservation NGOs, EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LANDSCAPE, Federal resource managers, All tags... Hunters & anglers, Informing Conservation Delivery, LCC Network Science Catalog, Project, aquatic, connectivity, environment, 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, 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, MT-1, Montana, Montana, Montana, Montana, Montana, Mule deer, OR-2, OR-2, OR-2, OR-2, Oregon, 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-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, Washington, 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-1, ID-2, ID-2, ID-2, ID-2, Idaho, 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, NV-2, Nevada, Nevada, Nevada, Nevada, Nevada, OR-2, OR-2, OR-2, OR-2, Oregon, 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, 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, Wyoming, Wyoming, Wyoming, Wyoming, Wyoming, completed, environment, 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 Scenarios for forest reserve expansion and adaptive management under alternative climate change scenarios in the northern Great Lakes Researchers assessed how an expansion of forest reserves and climate-adaptive management may improve ecological connectivity and resilience under different climate scenarios. Resilience is measured as the capacity for these systems to maintain extant forest communities and aboveground live biomass. Forest landscape change was simulated via a spatially explicit forest ecosystem model, LANDIS-II. Simulations covered areas in northern Minnesota and northern lower Michigan that represent northern Great Lakes forest types. Restoring and maintaining ecological connectivity is one of the primary climate change adaptation strategies available to land managers, in addition to silvicultural practices. This study is... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2011, 2011, 2012, 2012, 2013, All tags... 2013, Conservation NGOs, EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LANDSCAPE, Federal resource managers, Great Lakes, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, Landscape Conservation Cooperatives, Private land owners, Project, Regional & county planners, Report, State agencies, Tribes, Upper Midwest and Great Lakes Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Vulnerability Assessment, climate change, completed, connectivity, environment, environment, forests, upper midwest, Fewer tags Distribution model for Fishers in the northern US Rocky Mountains The results of this proposed project would provide the first comprehensive identification of fisher distribution in the northern Rocky Mountains, which may serve as a baseline for identifying population trends and changes in distribution over time.A species distribution model will be constructed, using field data collected to date, that relates fisher presence observations to environmental variables (i.e., spring snow cover, minimum spring temperatures, annual rainfall, topographic position, elevation, and others). These environmental predictors will provide an indication of the contemporary distribution and environmental requirements of the species in the northern Rocky Mountains. Down-scaled global climate models... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Alberta, Applications and Tools, British Columbia, Climate Change, Connectivity, All tags... Data Acquisition and Development, Datasets/Database, Federal resource managers, Fishers, Goal 2: Conserve landscape connectivity, ID-1, ID-2, ID-2, ID-2, ID-2, Idaho, Idaho, Informing Conservation Delivery, LCC Network Science Catalog, MT-1, MT-1, MT-1, MT-1, Montana, Montana, Montana, Montana, Montana, Northern US Rocky Mountains, OR-2, OR-2, OR-2, OR-2, Oregon, Oregon, Oregon, Oregon, Oregon, Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Project, Publication, Rocky Mountain, State agencies, Tribes, WA-5, WA-5, WA-5, WA-5, WY-1, WY-1, WY-1, WY-1, Washington, Washington, Washington, Washington, Washington, Woodland, Wyoming, Wyoming, Wyoming, Wyoming, Wyoming, completed, environment, Fewer tags The Vulnerability of Forests to Climate Change and Wildfire in the Southwestern U.S. Fire in the western U.S. poses one of the greatest threats to human and ecological communities alike. In fact, fire management is the largest single expenditure of land management funds on federal lands. Now, climate change is altering wildfire patterns. Climate change in the West is creating warmer and drier conditions, resulting in an increase in the amount of dead vegetation available to fuel fires. This project sought to assess the vulnerability of forests in the southwestern U.S. to climate change and wildfire, in order to understand how these ecosystems might become altered as a result. Researchers (a) examined how climate change impacts wildfires in the region, to better understand fire risk; (b) identified... Categories: Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2012, CA, CASC, CO, Completed, All tags... 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