Bumble Bee Report 2018

Pollinator decline and conservation is a complex and challenging issue with the potential to tax the capacity of individual state agencies; a collaborative approach among states and federal agencies has a higher likelihood success in meeting this emerging conservation challenge. Bumble bees have been identified as a particularly imperiled group of important pollinators. To aid the collaborative pollinator conservation effort, this report compiles the most up-to-date information related to bumble bees: threats, best practices for land management, and monitoring protocols into one location.The goal is to provide the basis for discussions on how to move bumble bee conservation forward more collaboratively in the Midwest.

Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2017, Conservation Plan/Design/Framework, Conservation Planning, EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LANDSCAPE, IA-01, All tags... IA-02, IL-01, IL-02, IL-03, IL-04, IL-05, IL-06, IL-07, IL-08, IL-09, IL-10, IL-11, IL-12, IL-13, IL-14, IL-15, IL-16, IL-18, IL-ZZ, IN-01, IN-02, IN-03, IN-04, IN-05, IN-06, IN-07, IN-08, IN-09, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, LCC Network Science Catalog, MI-01, MI-02, MI-03, MI-04, MI-05, MI-06, MI-07, MI-08, MI-09, MI-10, MI-11, MI-12, MI-13, MI-14, MI-ZZ, MN-01, MN-02, MN-03, MN-04, MN-05, MN-06, MN-07, MN-08, MO-01, MO-02, MO-03, MO-04, MO-05, MO-06, MO-07, MO-08, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, OH-01, OH-02, OH-03, OH-04, OH-05, OH-06, OH-07, OH-08, OH-09, OH-10, OH-11, OH-12, OH-13, OH-14, OH-15, OH-16, Ohio, Report, State Wildlife Action Plan, State agencies, WI-01, WI-02, WI-03, WI-04, WI-05, WI-06, WI-07, WI-08, Wisconsin, bumble bee, completed, environment, environment, Fewer tags

Midwest Regional State Wildlife Action Plan Coordination

The Upper Midwest and Great Lakes (UMGL) and the Eastern Tallgrass Prairie & Big Rivers (ETP) Landscape Conservation Cooperatives (LCCs) are convening State Wildlife Action Plan Coordinators in the Midwest states of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio, and Wisconsin to work across state boundaries to conserve species of greatest conservation need and their habitats. The partnership members have agreed to focus on three conservation priorities that are common among their State Wildlife Action Plans: freshwater mussels, pollinators, and large grassland complexes with their associated species of greatest conservation need. Work under this partnership addresses implementation of these priorities...

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2017, Conservation Plan/Design/Framework, Conservation Planning, EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LANDSCAPE, Eastern Tallgrass Prairie and Big Rivers Landscape Conservation Cooperative, All tags... IA-01, IA-02, IL-01, IL-02, IL-03, IL-04, IL-05, IL-06, IL-07, IL-08, IL-09, IL-10, IL-11, IL-12, IL-13, IL-14, IL-15, IL-16, IL-18, IL-ZZ, IN-01, IN-02, IN-03, IN-04, IN-05, IN-06, IN-07, IN-08, IN-09, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, MI-01, MI-02, MI-03, MI-04, MI-05, MI-06, MI-07, MI-08, MI-09, MI-10, MI-11, MI-12, MI-13, MI-14, MI-ZZ, MN-01, MN-02, MN-03, MN-04, MN-05, MN-06, MN-07, MN-08, MO-01, MO-02, MO-03, MO-04, MO-05, MO-06, MO-07, MO-08, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, OH-01, OH-02, OH-03, OH-04, OH-05, OH-06, OH-07, OH-08, OH-09, OH-10, OH-11, OH-12, OH-13, OH-14, OH-15, OH-16, Ohio, Project, State Wildlife Action Plan, State agencies, WI-01, WI-02, WI-03, WI-04, WI-05, WI-06, WI-07, WI-08, Wisconsin, completed, environment, environment, onGoing, Fewer tags

Modeling the Interaction of Forest Management and Climate Change on the Spread and Impact of Non-Native Invasive Plants

Under shifting temperatures and precipitation patterns, Midwestern states are increasingly at risk from non-native invasive plants that are changing the composition, structure, and function of native forests. Non-native invasive plants impact the resilience and sustainability of forest communities by outcompeting native tree seedlings and diverse flowering plants, and by altering ecologically important patterns of natural processes like fire, wind, drought, and flooding. Land managers facing this threat are having to not only consider current non-native invasive plants within their landscapes but also future impacts with the expansion of these plants northward and westward under a changing climate, especially as...

Categories: Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2020, CASC, Data Visualization & Tools, Data Visualization & Tools, Forests, All tags... Forests, Landscapes, Landscapes, Midwest, Midwest CASC, Plants, Plants, Projects by Region, Projects by Region, Science Tools for Managers, Science Tools for Managers, Wildlife and Plants, Wildlife and Plants, Fewer tags