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Literature search on environmental affects of agricultural practices Researchers with U.S. Geological Survey Water Science Centers in Iowa, Kansas and Massachusetts collaborated to conduct a comprehensive literature search of both published and ongoing research (2000-present) that sheds light on the interactions between climate change, agriculture and water quality across the combined geographies of the Eastern Tallgrass Prairie and Big Rivers LCC and neighboring Upper Midwest and Great Lakes LCC. Project investigators compiled the information in a resource library by geographic location, providing an organized structure for future examination of all research related to interactions between climate change, agriculture and water quality in these two regions. Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2012, Academics & scientific researchers, Datasets/Database, Decision Support, EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LANDSCAPE, All tags... Eastern Tallgrass Prairie and Big Rivers Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Gulf Restoration, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, Project, Report, agriculture, best management practices, climate, completed, environment, environment, water quality, Fewer tags Milkweeds for Monarchs St Louis Urban Prairie Education, Outreach and Research Project In June 2015, the Eastern Tallgrass Prairie and Big Rivers Landscape Conservation Cooperative (LCC) of the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS) granted $80,000 to the City of St. Louis (City) to promote urban monarch conservation by expanding activities associated with Milkweeds for Monarchs: The St. Louis Butterfly Project (M4M). Generally speaking, the USFWS grant was to: (1) enhance urban education and outreach efforts, and (2) conduct research on urban monarch habitat. The project spent $51,583.57 on activities for ed and $27,785.68 for research. The City’s Office of the Mayor used a portion of the funds to contract a part time individual to act as a Monarch Community Liaison, and used the majority of the grant... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2015, Academics & scientific researchers, Applications and Tools, Conservation NGOs, EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LANDSCAPE, All tags... Eastern Tallgrass Prairie and Big Rivers Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Informing Conservation Delivery, Interested public, K-12 students & teachers, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, MO-01, MO-02, MO-03, Methodology/Protocol, Missouri, Other, Pilot/Case Study, Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Private land owners, Project, Report, Socio-economics/Ecosystem Services, Training/Outreach/Workshop, Urban Ecosystems, completed, environment, environment, Fewer tags Midwest Urban Conservation Workshop April 2014 The focus of the first Midwest Urban Conservation Workshop was to understand the challenges stakeholders are facing, define the needs for collaboration and best management practices, establish a platform for conversation focusing on learning from each other and creating an opportunity for collaboration on new initiatives through a collective impact. The workshop was framed around the idea of making a collective impact, as what happens upstream directly affects what happens downstream. Over 40 participants included scientists, urban planners, and state, federal, private and nonprofit organizations with interests in creating a network of professionals interested in the value of our waterways. We envision a world where... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2013, Academics & scientific researchers, Conservation NGOs, EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LANDSCAPE, Eastern Tallgrass Prairie and Big Rivers Landscape Conservation Cooperative, All tags... Federal resource managers, IL-01, IL-03, IL-05, IL-07, IN-05, IN-07, Informing Conservation Delivery, KS-02, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, MO-01, MO-02, Midwest, Policy makers & regulators, Project, Regional & county planners, State agencies, Training/Outreach/Workshop, completed, environment, environment, urban, Fewer tags Urban Monarch Conservation Workshop November 9-10, 2016 Monarch butterfly habitat—including milkweed host plants and nectar food sources—has declined drastically throughout most of the United States. Observed overwinter population levels have also exhibited a long-term downward trend that suggests a strong relationship between habitat loss and monarch population declines. To try and reverse this trend, there has been a call to action to engage in monarch conservation across all landscapes within the migratory pathway—and urban areas could play a critical role, but how?The Field Museum, in partnership with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, have spent the last year working on an Urban Monarch landscape conservation design (LCD), or a “Monarch’s view of the city”, project... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2017, Arkansas, Conservation NGOs, EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LANDSCAPE, Eastern Tallgrass Prairie and Big Rivers Landscape Conservation Cooperative, All tags... Federal resource managers, Illinois, Indiana, Informing Conservation Delivery, Iowa, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, Minnesota, Monarch, Policy makers & regulators, Project, Regional & county planners, State agencies, Training/Outreach/Workshop, Upper Midwest and Great Lakes Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Urban, 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 Monarch View of the City: The Next Iteration The emerging multi-LCC Ecological Places in Cities Network integrates the ecological and urban communities to guide and promote conservation practices, such as those across the monarch flyway. The ETPBR LCC is working with a number of other Service programs and external partners to build capacity for the development and implementation of a framework that can be tailored to individual cities of various sizes to evaluate their unique situations and design an urban monarch conservation strategy that optimizes the potential contributions of their urban area. Specifically, this project will continue to lay the groundwork for design principles to guide the development, testing and deployment of future urban conservation... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2017, Applications and Tools, Conservation Design, Conservation NGOs, Decision-Making Support and Tools, All tags... EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LANDSCAPE, Eastern Tallgrass Prairie and Big Rivers Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Federal resource managers, Grassland, IA-03, 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, IN-01, KS-03, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, MN-04, MN-05, MO-05, Methodology/Protocol, Monarch butterfly, Project, Regional & county planners, Socio-economics/Ecosystem Services, State agencies, TX-21, Urban Ecology, Wetland, environment, environment, funded, migration, onGoing, Fewer tags Northeast Conservation Framework Workshop The Northeast Regional Conservation Framework Workshop, held in June 2011, provided an opportunity to step back and synthesize the results of many projects that have been completed or are underway through the Northeast Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies Regional Conservation Needs (RCN) program and Landscape Conservation Cooperatives (LCCs). The workshop also helped partners determine how these projects might fit into a common regional conservation framework and identify the greatest needs for future work. By fostering information sharing and discussions among regional conservation experts, the workshop sought to clarify the “big picture” of conservation, illuminate how existing efforts complement each other,... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Conservation NGOs, Conservation Plan/Design/Framework, Conservation Planning, FWS R5 SA Project, Federal resource managers, All tags... Informing Conservation Delivery, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, LCC Network Science Catalog, NALCC, North Atlantic Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Presentation, Project, State agencies, Training/Outreach/Workshop, completed, environment, environment, Fewer tags Mississippi River Basin Gulf Hypoxia Structured Decision Making Workshop Seven Landscape Conservation Cooperatives (LCCs) are working together to identify key scientific uncertainties associated with design and management of a sustainable ecosystem/floodplain landscape that provides multiple benefits for agricultural productivity, water quality, and wildlife conservation—both locally and in the Gulf of Mexico. Online meetings through the summer are preparing for a Mississippi River Basin / Gulf Hypoxia Structured Decision Making Workshop to be held August 12 – 14, 2014 at the Ducks Unlimited Headquarters in Memphis, TN, to convene 30 key representatives integrating a range of perspectives. The ultimate goal of this multi-LCC effort is to prioritize agricultural conservation areas by... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2013, 2014, 2015, AR-01, CO-04, All tags... Conservation NGOs, Conservation Plan/Design/Framework, Decision Support, EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LANDSCAPE, Eastern Tallgrass Prairie and Big Rivers Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Farm Bill programs, Federal resource managers, Gulf Restoration, Gulf hypoxia, IA-01, IA-02, IA-04, IL-12, IL-13, IL-18, IN-05, IN-06, IN-07, IN-08, KS-01, KS-02, KS-03, KS-04, KY-01, LA-01, LA-03, LA-05, LA-06, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, MN-01, MO-03, MO-06, MO-08, MS-02, MS-03, Memphis, Mississippi River Basin, NE-01, OH-01, OH-02, OH-03, OH-08, OH-10, OH-12, OH-15, Policy makers & regulators, Project, SD-00, State agencies, TN-08, TX-13, Tennessee, Training/Outreach/Workshop, Tribes, WI-03, agriculture, completed, environment, environment, habitat, landscape conservation design, product, structured decision making, water quality, wildlife conservation, Fewer tags Adapting Conservation to a Changing Climate: An Update to the Illinois Wildlife Action Plan The project had four explicit objectives: 1) Conduct a climate vulnerability assessment of Species of Greatest Need of Conservation and major habitat types 2) Identify conservation strategies that increase resiliency or adaptive capacity, or mitigate the effects of climate change 3) Outline an adaptive management approach for informing management decisions 4) Recommend changes to existing monitoring programs and identify research needs Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2010, EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LANDSCAPE, Illinois, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, All tags... Project, Report, State agencies, Upper Midwest and Great Lakes Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Vulnerability Assessment, completed, environment, environment, 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 EPiC Business Planning Core Team Meeting August 2015 The EPiC / Urban Conservation Core Team is a small group of volunteers that provides leadership and direction for the EPiC / Urban Conservation Technical Advisory Group. Through a leadership role within the EPiC / Urban TAG, the Core Team helps initiate and guide dialogue in the larger community about developing common planning, actions, and evaluation for landscape scale urban conservation in the Midwest. The Urban Core Team Strategic Planning Workshop was an organizational meeting held to: 1. Discuss Green Infrastructure as an organizational framework for EPIC and receive feedback on EPIC. 2. Walk through the EPiC framework 3. Determine next steps on Core Team establishing mission, visions, goals/objectives. Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2016, Conservation NGOs, EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LANDSCAPE, Eastern Tallgrass Prairie and Big Rivers Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Federal resource managers, All tags... Illinois, Informing Conservation Delivery, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, Policy makers & regulators, Project, Regional & county planners, State agencies, Threatened and Endangered Species, Training/Outreach/Workshop, Urban, completed, environment, environment, Fewer tags Developing a Continental Blueprint for Targeting Landscape-Level Urban Monarch Conservation Monarch butterfly and other pollinators are in trouble. Monarch butterfly habitat— including milkweed host plants and nectar food sources—has declined drastically throughout most of the United States. Observed overwinter population levels have also exhibited a long-term downward trend, suggesting a strong relationship between habitat loss and monarch population declines. Preliminary research results from a U.S. Geological Survey led effort indicate that we need a comprehensive conservation strategy that includes all land types in order to stabilize monarch populations at levels necessary to adequately minimize extinction risk—urban areas will likely play a critical role. This strategy reflects an integrated and... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2015, 2016, CO-01, CO-02, CO-03, All tags... CO-04, CO-05, CO-06, CO-07, Colorado, Conservation Design, Conservation NGOs, Conservation Plan/Design/Framework, Decision Support, EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LANDSCAPE, Eastern Tallgrass Prairie and Big Rivers Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Federal resource managers, IA-01, IA-02, IA-03, IA-04, 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-17, IL-18, IN-01, IN-02, IN-03, IN-04, IN-05, IN-06, IN-07, IN-08, IN-09, Illinois, Indiana, Informing Conservation Delivery, Iowa, KS-01, KS-02, KS-03, KS-04, Kansas, LA-01, LA-02, LA-03, LA-04, LA-05, LA-06, LCC, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, Louisiana, 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, 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, MS-04, Map, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Monitoring, NE-01, NE-02, NE-03, NM-02, NM-03, NY-21, NY-22, NY-23, NY-24, NY-25, NY-26, NY-27, Nebraska, New Mexico, New York, 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, OK-01, OK-02, OK-03, OK-04, OK-05, Ohio, Oklahoma, PA-03, PA-05, PA-12, Pennsylvania, Pilot/Case Study, Project, Regional & county planners, Report, SD-00, Socio-economics/Ecosystem Services, South Dakota, State agencies, TX-02, TX-03, TX-04, TX-05, TX-06, TX-07, TX-08, TX-09, TX-10, TX-11, TX-12, TX-13, TX-14, TX-15, TX-17, TX-18, TX-19, TX-20, TX-21, TX-22, TX-23, TX-24, TX-25, TX-26, TX-27, TX-28, TX-29, TX-30, TX-31, TX-32, TX-33, TX-34, TX-35, TX-36, Texas, Training/Outreach/Workshop, Urban Ecosystems, User Manual, WI-01, WI-02, WI-03, WI-04, WI-05, WI-06, WI-07, WI-08, Wisconsin, completed, environment, environment, Fewer tags Regional decision support tool for identifying vulnerabilities of riverine habitat and fishes to climate change Climate change is expected to alter the distributions and community composition of stream fishes in the Great Lakes region in the 21st century, in part as a result of altered hydrological systems (stream temperature, streamflow, and habitat). Resource managers need information and tools to understand where fish species and stream habitats are expected to change under future conditions. Fish sample collections and environmental variables from multiple sources across the United States Great Lakes Basin were integrated and used to develop empirical models to predict fish species occurrence under present-day climate conditions. Random Forests models were used to predict the probability of occurrence of 13 lotic fish... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service, Shapefile; Tags: 2011, 2011, 2012, 2012, 2013, All tags... 2013, Applications and Tools, Conservation NGOs, Decision Support, EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LANDSCAPE, Federal resource managers, Great Lakes, Interested public, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, Landscape Conservation Cooperatives, Private land owners, Project, Regional & county planners, State agencies, Tribes, Upper Midwest and Great Lakes Landscape Conservation Cooperative, climate change, completed, decision-support tool, environment, environment, fish occurrence, fishes, great lakes, lotic, occupancy model, occupancy model, occupancy model, riverine habitat, riverine habitat, rivers, upper midwest, vulnerability, Fewer tags Identifying Regional Priority Areas for Focusing Conservation Actions in Streams and Grasslands In the United States, many resources devoted to conservation are routed through states, but animal and plant populations do not conform to state boundaries. Consequently, neighboring states can enhance their collective conservation impact by coordinating natural resources management. In order to support managers as they review and revise state Wildlife Action Plans in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, and Wisconsin, this project identified regional conservation priorities for streams and grasslands of the Upper Midwest.Specifically, we (1) selected stream and grassland species of common conservation interest to partnering states, (2) modeled and mapped regional distributions of these species, and (3) used predicted species... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2014, Conservation Planning, EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LANDSCAPE, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, All tags... Project, Report, State agencies, Tribes, Upper Midwest and Great Lakes Landscape Conservation Cooperative, completed, environment, environment, Fewer tags Field Assessments of Great Lakes Barriers Capacity to prioritize barrier removals in the Great Lakes basin is currently limited by lack of data on the passability of road crossings and dams for both unwanted invasive species and desirable native migratory fishes. Building upon our initial barrier inventory, this project has two key elements. First, we are testing whether our landscape statistical models accurately predict the upstream limits of fish migrations along the Wisconsin coast of Lake Michigan. This involves intensive field work to determine the actual upstream limits of suckers, pike, and steelhead during the spring migration. Second, we are collecting systematic data on the size and condition of dams throughout the Lake Michigan basin. These... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2015, Decision Support, EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LANDSCAPE, Federal resource managers, Great Lakes, All tags... LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, Project, Report, Road crossings, State agencies, Upper Midwest and Great Lakes Landscape Conservation Cooperative, completed, dams, environment, environment, fishes, fragmentation, migration, onGoing, spawning, Fewer tags Gulf Hypoxia Spatial Analysis - Precision Conservation Blueprints The multi-LCC Mississippi River Basin/Gulf Hypoxia Initiative is a joint effort to find the nexus of water quality, wildlife, and people in the Mississippi River Basin. Integrating hundreds of data layers into a coherent spatial analysis tool, the Precision Conservation Blueprint v1.0 will provide a significant targeting and planning tool for individuals and organizations across the basin to identify opportunity areas for the implementation of specific conservation practices that have maximum multiple benefits for wildlife, water quality (gulf hypoxia), and people and agricultural productivity.Practice Fact Sheets identify a dozen or more high impact conservation actions that have potential for multi-sector benefits... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2015, AZ-01, Applications and Tools, Arkansas, CO-04, All tags... Conservation Design, Conservation NGOs, Conservation Plan/Design/Framework, Conservation Planning, Decision Support, EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LANDSCAPE, Eastern Tallgrass Prairie and Big Rivers Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Federal resource managers, GIS, Gulf Restoration, Gulf hypoxia, IA-01, IA-02, IA-03, IA-04, IL-12, IL-14, IL-18, IN-04, IN-05, IN-06, IN-07, IN-08, IN-09, Illinois, Indiana, Informing Conservation Delivery, Iowa, KS-01, KS-02, KS-03, KS-04, Kansas, Kentucky, LA-01, LA-03, LA-05, LA-06, LCC, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, Louisiana, MN-01, MO-03, MO-06, MO-08, MS-02, MS-03, Minnesota, Mississippi, Mississippi River Basin, Missouri, NE-01, NM-03, Nebraska, North Dakota, OH-01, OH-02, OH-03, OH-08, OH-10, OH-12, OH-15, OK-01, OK-02, OK-03, OK-04, OK-05, Oklahoma, Planning, Project, Regional & county planners, SD-00, South Dakota, State agencies, TN-08, TX-13, Tennessee, Texas, Tribes, WI-03, Wisconsin, completed, environment, environment, hypoxia, landscape conservation design, onGoing, spatial analysis, water quality, wildlife conservation, Fewer tags Facilitating the Effectiveness of State Wildlife Action Plans at Multiple Scales in the Upper Midwest/Great Lakes LCC Region Working within the constraints of the SWAP revision timeline, we propose to advance biodiversity conservation within the region by enhancing the regional effectiveness of SWAPs and the ability of the LCC to address regional biodiversity priorities. We propose to accomplish these outcomes through engagement of SWAP coordinators and LCC professionals in the creation of a set of detailed best practices and learning resources tailored to needs that they help to identify. We will regularly engage with the SWAP coordinators as we develop these resources to allow each state to influence and employ the resources as needed, recognizing that time and resources to participate in this project will vary among states. As part... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2013, Conservation NGOs, Conservation Planning, EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LANDSCAPE, Federal resource managers, All tags... LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, Project, Report, State agencies, Upper Midwest and Great Lakes Landscape Conservation Cooperative, completed, environment, environment, state wildlife action plans, Fewer tags Ecological Places in Cities EPiC Network Today more than 80% of Americans live in urban areas and by 2050 it is estimated that 70% of the world’s population will call a city ‘home’. Our cities are built on lands and river systems that connect to larger natural areas. The protection of that land and water is vital for a city’s economy and the health and well-being of its urban residents. Ecological Places in Cities, EPiC, is a network of cities and conservation groups working together towards a new vision that integrates nature’s benefits and natural defenses with the needs of our urban future. We use advanced urban planning approaches along with innovative civic leadership to ensure that urban nature and our future generations can grow and thrive together. Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2015, 2016, Conservation NGOs, EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LANDSCAPE, Eastern Tallgrass Prairie and Big Rivers Landscape Conservation Cooperative, All tags... Federal resource managers, Illinois, Indiana, Informing Conservation Delivery, Iowa, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, MO-01, Methodology/Protocol, Other, Project, Regional & county planners, Upper Midwest and Great Lakes Landscape Conservation Cooperative, User Manual, environment, environment, onGoing, Fewer tags On-a-wing and a (GIS) Layer: Prioritizing migratory bird habitat along Great Lakes shoreline The Nature Conservancy - Great Lakes Program is leading the development of a scalable (Great Lakes wide, individual lake basin, to coastal reach within a lake basin) rule-based spatial model for ranking the relative importance of coastal lands and waters as habitat for migrating birds. Results will guide conservation actions including land acquisition, land and water management and restoration, and development of wind energy facilities. Specifically, the team will: 1) refine, create and integrate migratory bird stopover habitat models which depict the distribution of potential stopover sites along or near the shorelines of Lakes Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario; and, 2) develop an online portal that will deliver... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2011, 2012, 2013, Conservation NGOs, Decision Support, All tags... EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LANDSCAPE, Federal resource managers, Great Lakes, Great Lakes, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, Map, Private land owners, Project, Report, State agencies, Tribes, Upper Midwest and Great Lakes Landscape Conservation Cooperative, coastal, completed, environment, environment, migratory birds, renewable energy, upper midwest, Fewer tags Predicting climate change effects on riverine aquatic insects in the Upper Midwest Mayflies (Ephemeroptera), stoneflies (Plecoptera), and caddisflies (Trichoptera) (a.k.a. EPT taxa) are the most environmentally sensitive of freshwater insects. They are utilized the world over as indicators of water quality in flowing waters. Their decline has been documented in Asia, Europe, and North America. A 220,321 record dataset of new and museum EPT specimen records covering much of the Midwest and Maximum Entropy (Maxent) software were used construct to current and future, climate influenced distribution models. Nearly 100 physical and historic vegetation variables and 9 BIOCLIM variables derived from downscaled climate data for the region were employed in this process. A total of 426 EPT species were... 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, Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Project, Report, State agencies, Tribes, Upper Midwest and Great Lakes Landscape Conservation Cooperative, aquatic insects, climate change, completed, environment, environment, modeling, upper midwest, Fewer tags 1 2 »