FY2019Multijurisdictional, international landscape with many shared priorities but lacks landscape (inter-jurisdictional) perspective. Landscape conservation design process will provide landscape context and future scenarios to support coordinated conservation investment.
FY2020Entering Phase 2 of a 3-year project, a Landscape Conservation Design (LCD) will deliver a set of strategies that the Crown Managers Partnership and dozens of stakeholders can deploy to achieve desired ecological conditions based on defined, measurable resource outcomes across the Crown of the Continent ecosystem. LCD is a holistic, participatory process bringing stakeholders together to define a desired future for the Crown landscape and co-identify key ecological and cultural features important to everyone. Integrating the best available data with expert and traditional knowledges, LCD develops optimization models that describe efficient scenarios (i.e., plausible pathways) to achieve desired conditions. The process culminates with a landscape-scale strategy that describes collaborative opportunities to implement the design; track and evaluate success and modify, as needed; and co-create a future Crown landscape with high functioning ecological and social systems.
FY2021Crown of the Continent Landscape Conservation Design - FWS IR5/7 Science Applications is leading 42 partners and stakeholders develop a Landscape Conservation Design for the 13-million-hectare transboundary Crown of the Continent Ecosystem. The Design process addresses landscape themes, science support and collaborative conservation including shared ecological and social values of stakeholders including at-risk species like grizzly bear, bull trout, Canada lynx and wolverine. Outcomes include a Spatial Design that synthesizes dozens of well-managed input data and optimization modeling approaches they help stakeholders understand where conservation opportunities are concentrated and a Strategic Design, co-produced with researchers and managers, that identify the who, how, when and what conservation actions can most efficiently achieve shared goals. With a $25,000 investment in FY21 for ongoing data analysis, the project is currently entering Phase 2 of three; finalized vetted designs are expected in 2022.
FY2022The Crown Landscape Conservation Design brings together the great people, science and planning across the Crown of the Continent Ecosystem (CCE) into a unified landscape-scale conservation design (LCD) that considers not only wildlife and ecosystems, but cultural, social and economic priorities as well. Together, partners across the CCE have envisioned what conditions are essential for a healthy future landscape, and what stressors or changes may limit their conservation. By feeding high quality, CCE-wide data into an optimization model, we can determine where on the landscape it is most effective to concentrate effort and resources. The resultant roadmap, which considers multiple conservation priorities on the landscape simultaneously, can be used by agency managers to guide landscape level conservation and restoration efforts throughout the CCE.
