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GNLCC Multi-dimensional Synthesis The GNLCC Multi-dimensional Synthesis is a synthesis of existing information in four categories to promote a common understanding of situation, existing information and information gaps, as well as providing an index of programmatic, resource and other climate and landscape related information for GNLCC. The synthesis includes: the GNLCC Resource Directory (organizations and initiatives); climate and ecological response (what does existing and projected climate information say and what are expected ecological effects); and monitoring (who is monitoring what).FY2011Objectives:Provide a Framework from which to organize the various monitoring and evaluation efforts. Included are key monitoring and evaluation questions... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Alberta, British Columbia, CO-2, CO-3, CO-3, All tags... CO-3, CO-3, Climate Change, Colorado, Colorado, Conservation NGOs, Data Acquisition and Development, GNLCC, 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, Interested public, LCC Network Science Catalog, MT-1, MT-1, MT-1, MT-1, Montana, Montana, Montana, Montana, Montana, OR-2, OR-2, OR-2, OR-2, Oregon, Oregon, Oregon, Oregon, Oregon, Project, Report, Synthesis, UT-1, UT-1, UT-1, UT-1, Utah, Utah, Utah, Utah, Utah, 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, WY-1, WY-1, WY-1, WY-1, Washington, Washington, Washington, Washington, Washington, Wyoming, Wyoming, Wyoming, Wyoming, Wyoming, completed, environment, Fewer tags Evaluating Species Management Guidance and Monitoring Programs for the Great Basin in Nevada FY2013The proposed project’s objective is to provide a scientific review of(1) current priority species management practices in Nevada, (2) status of our combined scientific knowledge of priority species’ needs and gaps in that knowledge, and(3) adequacy of current monitoring programs of priority species.The project builds on recent, well-researched species conservation plans for Nevada (GBBO 2010, NWPT 2012), and it will leverage funds that are already obligated to research on scientifically based disturbance buffer recommendations and to evaluate GBBO’s statewide landbird monitoring program, the Nevada Bird Count.The outcome of the proposed work will be an online open-source compendium document that summarizes... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Birds, Birds, Birds, Conservation Design, Federal resource managers, All tags... Great Basin, Great Basin, Great Basin Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Informing Conservation Delivery, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, Nevada, Nevada, Nevada, Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Project, Report, State agencies, Training/Outreach/Workshop, onGoing, species management, species management, species management, Fewer tags Forecasting Changes in Sagebrush Distribution and Abundance Under Climate Change: Integration of Spatial, Temporal, and Mechanistic Models FY2014Although the future of sage grouse depends on the future of sagebrush, we have limited ability to anticipate impacts of climate change on sagebrush populations. Current efforts to forecast sagebrush habitat typically rely on species distribution models (SDMs), which suffer from a variety of well-known weaknesses. However, by integrating SDMs with complementary research approaches, such as historical data analysis and mechanistic models, we can provide increased confidence in projections of habitat change. Our goal is to forecast the effect of climate change on the distribution and abundance of big sagebrush in order to inform conservation planning, and sage grouse management in particular, across the Intermountain... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Academics & scientific researchers, Conservation Planning, Datasets/Database, Federal resource managers, Great Basin, All tags... Great Basin, Great Basin, Great Basin, Great Basin, LCC Network Science Catalog, Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Project, Publication, State agencies, Vulnerability Assessment, big sagebrush, big sagebrush, big sagebrush, big sagebrush, climate change, climate change, climate change, climate change, completed, modeling, modeling, modeling, modeling, sagebrush, Fewer tags A Multi-scale Resilience-based Framework for Restoring and Conserving Great Basin Wet Meadows and Riparian Ecosystems FY2016This project will develop a strategic approach for conservation of wet meadows and riparian ecosystems and the species they support that focuses on threats caused by natural and anthropogenic disturbance. It uses information on (1) the factors that affect wet meadow and riparian ecosystem resilience to both natural and human-caused disturbances at the scale of the watershed and meadow or riparian ecosystem, and (2) the distributions and population abundances of at risk species to determine focal areas for management. Maps of the relative resilience of watersheds and wet meadows are overlaid with data on at risk species and the predominant threats to facilitate this process. Decision matrices are developed... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Conservation Design, Conservation Planning, Datasets/Database, Federal resource managers, Great Basin, All tags... LCC Network Science Catalog, Map, Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Project, Report, State agencies, aquatic, aquatic, aquatic, aquatic, conservation, conservation, conservation, conservation, framework, framework, framework, framework, lentic, lentic, lentic, lentic, lotic, lotic, lotic, lotic, meadows, meadows, meadows, meadows, onGoing, resilience, restoration, restoration, restoration, restoration, riparian, riparian, riparian, riparian, wetland, wetland, wetland, wetland, Fewer tags Understanding the Causes and Consequences of Cheatgrass Die-offs in the Great Basin FY2013Cheatgrass die-offs are unexplained instances of stand failure observed in areas of Nevada and Utah, where cheatgrass fails to grow even though it has been a dominant component of plant communities in the past. The goals of this project are to:1) provide information on the size and extent of historic (1985 - 2012) die-offs in the Winnemucca area using satellite imagery, and 2) determine if die-offs are restoration opportunities by planting and monitoring local and commercially available native grasses in die-off areas.Support is requested to fund monitoring of the restoration project through a second growing season and to develop predictive spatial models of die-off from analysis of satellite imagery and GIS... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Academics & scientific researchers, Applications and Tools, California, California, California, All tags... California, Cheatgrass, Datasets/Database, Decision Support, Federal resource managers, Great Basin, LCC Network Science Catalog, Monitoring, Nevada, Nevada, Nevada, Nevada, Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Presentation, Project, Report, State agencies, completed, fungistasis, fungistasis, fungistasis, fungistasis, invasives, invasives, invasives, invasives, restoration, restoration, restoration, restoration, Fewer tags Characterization of Montane Ecosystems, Their Microclimates, and Wildlife Distribution and Abundance Across the Hydrographic Great Basin FY2013This project retrieves four years of data from over 200 temperature sensors nested within 28 sites across ~40 million hectares of the hydrographic Great Basin. The sensors span all major aspects and up to 700 m of elevation within sites, and occur in numerous management jurisdictions in 18 mountain ranges plus other areas not in ranges. This project: Quantifies the variability of climate at micro-, meso-, and macroscales across the Basin, and across diel, seasonal, and interannual periods. Informs management and conservation efforts, in terms of helping calibrate and refine the climatic stage upon which all biological actors and efforts hinge (Beier and Brost 2010). Feeds into other bioclimatic and wildlife... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2013, 2014, Academics & scientific researchers, California, California, All tags... California, California, California, Conservation NGOs, Conservation Plan/Design/Framework, Conservation Planning, Conservation Planning, Datasets/Database, Federal resource managers, Federal resource managers, Great Basin, Great Basin, Great Basin, Great Basin, Great Basin Landscape Conservation Cooperative, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, Montane, Nevada, Nevada, Nevada, Nevada, Nevada, Pika, Pika, Pika, Pika, Pika, Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Project, Publication, Report, State agencies, State agencies, Vulnerability Assessment, Vulnerability Assessment, alpine, alpine, alpine, alpine, completed, montane, montane, montane, montane, mountain, mountain, mountain, mountain, talus, talus, talus, talus, Fewer tags Caribbean Atlas for Management and Planning Opportunities The mission of the Caribbean Landscape Conservation Cooperative is to provide science and technology for conservation planning and action leading to a mutually desired landscape of the future (Nassauer and Opdam 2008, USFWS 2012). An essential component of developing a shared vision is a common understanding of the current land and seascape characteristics. This includes the distribution of Trust resources, the condition of Trust resource populations and their habitats, the governance structure impacting them, assessments of threats and vulnerabilities – tied to information on land uses, climate, ecosystem characteristics (e.g., stream flow), and potential future scenarios (Strategy 2012). This is a potentially... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Academics & scientific researchers, Conservation NGOs, Conservation Plan/Design/Framework, Conservation planning, Consevation design, All tags... Federal resource managers, Informing Conservation Delivery, LCC Network Science Catalog, Map, Pilot/Case Study, Project, Publication, Report, biota, environment, onGoing, Fewer tags Evaluating Riparian and Meadow Vegetation Change Relative to Climate, Restoration and Land Management FY2015Collaborators are investigating the effect of low rise dams water supply, ecosystem functions and health, and habitat for a wide range of organisms, including sage grouse. They are assessing the economic cost and attitudes of ranchers and managers towards both low-rise dams and proposed re-introductions of beavers. Remote sensing is used to identify locations of incised streams across the Great Basin. Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Conservation Planning, Federal resource managers, Great Basin, LCC Network Science Catalog, Monitoring, All tags... Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Project, Publication, Riparian, State agencies, aquatic, aquatic, aquatic, aquatic, climate change, climate change, climate change, climate change, management, management, management, management, onGoing, plants, plants, plants, plants, treatment, treatment, treatment, treatment, wetland, wetland, wetland, wetland, Fewer tags Crown of the Continent Landscape Conservation Design 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... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Conservation Design, Contractual Document, Crown of the Continent, Crown of the Continent, FWS SA, All tags... Project, Rocky Mountain, Rocky Mountain, SA Science Catalog, Strategic Science - 1420, USFWS Science Applications Science Catalog, environment, onGoing, 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 Effects of Genotype and Management Treatments of Native and Invasive Herbs on Success of Sagebrush Restoration FY2013The increase in large wildfires at a time when habitat for Greater Sage Grouse and other species dependent on big sagebrush has also increased has led to substantial needs for big sagebrush seeds. Significant decisions on which sagebrush seed to use and on management treatments that affect competing herb layers on the same restoration sites affect the trajectory of habitat.This project will evaluate how seed source, specifically genotype and climate-of-origin, interact with landscape-scale and replicated treatments (fencing, herbicide application, mowing, and seeding). Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2013, 2014, 2015, Academics & scientific researchers, Cheatgrass, All tags... Conservation Design, Decision Support, Decision Support, Federal resource managers, Federal resource managers, Great Basin, Great Basin, Great Basin Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Idaho, Idaho, Idaho, Idaho, Idaho, Informing Conservation Delivery, Informing Conservation Delivery, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, Nevada, Nevada, Nevada, Nevada, Nevada, Project, Publication, Report, Training/Outreach/Workshop, Training/Outreach/Workshop, User Manual, cheatgrass, cheatgrass, cheatgrass, cheatgrass, completed, genotype, genotype, genotype, genotype, genotype, sage grouse, sage grouse, sage grouse, sage grouse, sage grouse, seed source, seed source, seed source, seed source, seed source, wildfire, wildfire, 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-1, CA-4, CA-4, CA-4, CA-4, CA-8, CA-8, CA-8, CA-8, CO-2, CO-2, CO-2, CO-2, CO-3, CO-3, CO-3, CO-3, CO-4, CO-4, CO-4, CO-4, CO-5, CO-5, CO-5, CO-5, California, California, California, California, California, Climate Change, Co, 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-1, ID-2, ID-2, ID-2, ID-2, Idaho, Informing Conservation Delivery, LCC Network Science Catalog, Land Use Change, MT-1, MT-1, MT-1, MT-1, Map, Methodology/Protocol, Monitoring, Montana, ND-1, ND-1, ND-1, ND-1, NE-3, NE-3, NE-3, NE-3, NM-3, NM-3, NM-3, NM-3, NV-2, NV-2, NV-2, NV-2, NV-4, NV-4, NV-4, NV-4, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Northern Great Basin Management Zone, OR-2, OR-2, OR-2, OR-2, OR-4, OR-4, OR-4, OR-4, Oregon, Project, Publication, Rocky Mountain, SD-1, 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-1, UT-2, UT-2, UT-2, UT-2, UT-3, UT-3, UT-3, UT-3, UT-4, UT-4, UT-4, UT-4, 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, Wyoming, Wyoming Basins Management Zone, completed, environment, 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 Developing Management Guidelines for Creating Resilient Whitebark Pine Ecosystems in the Northern Rocky Mountains Using Spatial Simulation Modeling Landscape simulation modeling will be used to develop detailed management guidelines for restoring and sustaining whitebark pine under future climates, accounting for the principal stressors that threaten its persistence (exotic disease infections, mountain pine beetles, and fire exclusion policies). We will build on existing work, including the 2012 publication A Range-Wide Restoration Strategy for Whitebark Pine Forests and existing simulation areas within critical whitebark pine habitat. This project will create a robust and trans-boundary set of management tools for creating resistant and resilient whitebark pine forests within the Rocky Mountains, USA and Canada.FY2013Objectives:We propose to use FireBGCv2... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Alberta, British Columbia, Climate Change, Conservation Plan/Design/Framework, Conservation Planning, All tags... Decision Support, Federal resource managers, Goal 4: Promote landscape-scale disturbances, Grizzly Bear, ID-1, ID-2, ID-2, ID-2, ID-2, Idaho, Idaho, Invasive Species, LCC Network Science Catalog, MT-1, MT-1, MT-1, MT-1, Montana, Montana, Montana, Montana, Montana, Northern Rocky Mountain White Bark Pine Range, OR-2, OR-2, OR-2, OR-2, Oregon, Oregon, Oregon, Oregon, Oregon, Policy makers & regulators, Presentation, Project, Publication, Rocky Mountain, State agencies, WA-5, WA-5, WA-5, WA-5, WY-1, WY-1, WY-1, WY-1, Washington, Washington, Washington, Washington, Washington, Whitebark Pine, Wyoming, Wyoming, Wyoming, Wyoming, Wyoming, completed, environment, Fewer tags Research and Publications Authored and Supported by GBLCC Staff FY2010In addition to regional Science and Traditional Ecological Knowledge projects that the Great Basin LCC (GBLCC) supports, GBLCC staff lend technical expertise to a range of projects and have contributed to important regional publications on a range of subjects. These publications range in type from textbooks, to management-oriented science and conservation plans, to scientific papers and have covered subjects like wind erosion following fire, soil microbiota response to drought, plant community resilience to invasive species, and alpine plant communities. In many cases these publications form foundations for scientifically-informed management strategies across the Great Basin. Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: California, Conservation Design, Conservation Planning, Data Acquisition and Development, Federal resource managers, All tags... Great Basin, Idaho, Interested public, LCC Network Science Catalog, Nevada, Oregon, Project, Publication, Report, Scientific Papers, State agencies, Utah, alpine communities, birds, climate change, completed, erosion, interagency, invasive species, peer-reviewed, precipitation, resilience, resistance, restoration, soil microbes, wildlife, Fewer tags 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 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, WA-4, Washington, Washington, Washington, Washington, Washington, Website, completed, environment, Fewer tags Assessment of Impacts of Feral Horses and Livestock Grazing on Sage-grouse and their Habitats: Long-term trends in sage-grouse demography and habitats on the Sheldon-Hart Mountain NWRC and adjacent lands FY2014This projects main goals are to assess the effects of grazing by feral horses and livestock on Greater Sage-grouse demography and habitats. The Sheldon-Hart Mountain National Wildlife Refuge Complex and adjacent lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management provide the unique opportunity to assess sage-grouse populations free of feral horses and livestock grazing, populations that only have feral horses, as well as populations that coincide with both livestock grazing and feral horses. The project team will:1)Use historical sage-grouse data collected from Hart Mountain before and immediately after livestock were removed in the early 1990s, and historical data from Sheldon before the irruption of feral horses... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Conservation Planning, Data Acquisition and Development, Datasets/Database, Federal resource managers, Grazing, All tags... Great Basin, Great Basin, Hart Mountain, Hart Mountain, LCC Network Science Catalog, National Wildlife Refuge, Nevada, Oregon, Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Presentation, Private land owners, Project, Publication, Sheldon-Hart Refuge, horses, livestock, onGoing, sage grouse, Fewer tags Evaluating management alternatives to mitigate the adverse effects of climate change on whitebark pine ecosystems in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem Existing climate change science and guidance for restoring and maintaining whitebark pine forests will be evaluated using landscape simulation modeling to inform implementation of the Greater Yellowstone Coordinating Committee (GYCC) Whitebark Pine (WBP) subcommittees WBP Strategy. We will design a no constraints management scenario based on the GYCC WBP Strategy and 2015 publication Restoring whitebark pine ecosystems in the face of climate change and incorporating the latest projections of future climate suitability for WBP and other landscape stressors (mountain pine beetles, competing species, wildland fire). We will use the landscape simulation model FireBGCv2 to simulate interactions of future climate, mountain... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Alpine, Climate Change, Conservation Planning, Federal resource managers, Goal 2: Conserve landscape connectivity, All tags... Goal 4: Promote landscape-scale disturbances, Idaho, Informing Conservation Delivery, Interested public, LCC Network Science Catalog, Map, Montana, Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Private land owners, Project, Publication, Rocky Mountain, Sub-Alpine, Training/Outreach/Workshop, Whitebark Pine, Woodland, Wyoming, environment, onGoing, Fewer tags Engagement of Managers and Researchers on Relations among Cheatgrass-driven Fire, Climate, and Sensitive-status Birds across the Great Basin FY2015This effort complements a project, supported by the Joint Fire Science Program, to explore relations among cheatgrass-driven fire, climate, and sensitive-status birds across the Great Basin. With support from the NW and SW Climate Science Centers and the GB CESU, we aim to engage managers at local, state, and regional levels, and to involve both field-level and director-level personnel, during all stages of the proposed project. Our methods of engagement are intended to save managers time and decrease some of the uncertainty in planning and decision-making rather than to create additional pressures on managers time. We will conduct field visits, workshops, and interactive briefings to build trust and increase... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Academics & scientific researchers, Conservation Planning, Federal resource managers, Great Basin, Informing Conservation Delivery, All tags... LCC Network Science Catalog, Monitoring, Project, Publication, State agencies, Training/Outreach/Workshop, birds, climate change, climate change, climate change, climate change, fire, fire, fire, fire, invasive plants, invasive plants, invasive plants, invasive plants, land management, land management, land management, land management, onGoing, Fewer tags 1 2 3 »