Collaborative efforts to inform the science, management and policies of First Foods of the Cayuse, Walla Walla and Umatilla

The Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation (CTUIR) has been working collaboratively with the Bureau of Land Management and US Forest Service (USFS) to inventory and map current and potential distributions of plant communities which support species of cultural concern on federal lands. This project will continue this collaborative effort to develop plant community information and GIS datasets about three culturally important plant species located throughout the Columbia basin which are impacted by climate change, land use, invasive species, and increased incidence and severity of fire. We will help initiate determination of historical, current and likely future distribution and productivity in the...

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Climate Change, Columbia Basin, Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation, Decision Support, Federal resource managers, All tags... First Foods, Goal 4: Promote landscape-scale disturbances, Goal 5: Sustain local, place-based land use values, LCC Network Science Catalog, Land Use Change, Map, OR-2, Oregon, Project, Report, Sage Shrub/Grassland, Sage-Steppe, State agencies, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, Tribes, Vulnerability Assessment, Watershed Uplands, completed, environment, Fewer tags

Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment of Pacific Lamprey

The vulnerability of Pacific Lamprey to climate change will be evaluated by using an approach that relies on existing climate change model projections for stream conditions (i.e. hydrograph, temperatures, winter flood events) and lamprey sensitivity to environmental changes due to climate change.

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: California, Climate Change, Oregon, Vulnerability assessment, Washington, All tags... 2013, Academics & scientific researchers, Applications and Tools, CA-2, California, Climate Change, Climate Change, Datasets/Database, Decision Support, Decision Support, Federal resource managers, LCC, North Pacific Landscape Conservation Cooperative, OR-1, OR-2, OR-3, OR-4, OR-5, Oregon, Pacific Coast, Pacific Coast, Pacific Lamprey, Pacific Lamprey, Priority D. Hydrologic regime changes on anadromous fish, Project, Report, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, Tribes, Vulnerability Assessment, Vulnerability Assessment, Vulnerability assessment, WA-1, WA-2, WA-3, WA-4, WA-5, WA-6, WA-7, WA-8, Washington, onGoing, Fewer tags

Climate Science Conference

The North Pacific LCC helped sponsor the Second Annual Pacific Northwest Climate Science Conference. This two day, regional conference included a panel discussion on federal climate science endeavors in the Pacific NW.

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Academics & scientific researchers, All priority topics, Conservation NGOs, Conservation Planning, Data Management and Integration, All tags... Federal resource managers, ID, ID, ID, Informing Conservation Delivery, LCC Network Science Catalog, LCC Network Science Catalog - LCCScienceCatalog, NPLCC, OR, OR, OR, OR-1, OR-1, OR-1, OR-2, OR-2, OR-2, OR-3, OR-3, OR-3, OR-4, OR-4, OR-4, OR-5, OR-5, OR-5, Pacific NW, Pacific NW, Pacific NW, Project, Training/Outreach/Workshop, WA, WA, WA, WA-1, WA-10, WA-10, WA-10, WA-2, WA-2, WA-2, WA-3, WA-3, WA-3, WA-4, WA-4, WA-4, WA-5, WA-5, WA-5, WA-6, WA-6, WA-6, WA-7, WA-7, WA-7, WA-8, WA-8, WA-8, WA-9, WA-9, WA-9, climate adaptation, climate modeling, climate modeling, climate modeling, completed, Fewer tags

Assessing Climate Change Impacts on Pacific Lamprey and Pacific Eulachon, GIS Data Sets

For hundreds of years, Pacific lamprey and Pacific eulachon have been important traditional foods for Native American tribes of the Columbia River Basin and coastal areas of Oregon and Washington. These fish have large ranges – spending part of their lives in the ocean and part in freshwater streams – and they require specific environmental conditions to survive, migrate, and reproduce. For these reasons, Pacific lamprey and Pacific eulachon are likely threatened by a variety of climate change impacts to both their ocean and freshwater habitats. However, to date, little research has explored these impacts, despite the importance of these species to tribal communities.This project will evaluate the effects of future...

Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Academics & scientific researchers, Climate Change, Climate Change, Columbia River Basin, Conservation Planning, All tags... Eulachon, Federal resource managers, Hydrologic regime shift, LCC Network Science Catalog, NPLCC, OR-1, OR-2, OR-3, OR-4, OR-5, Oregon, Pacific Eulachon, Pacific Lamprey, Pacific Lamprey, Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Priority D. Hydrologic regime changes on anadromous fish, Surface Sea Temperature, Traditional Ecological knowledge, Tribes, WA-1, WA-2, WA-3, WA-4, WA-5, WA-6, WA-7, WA-8, Washington, climate change, completed, product, Fewer tags

Final Report: Assessing Climate Change Impacts on Pacific Lamprey and Pacific Eulachon

For hundreds of years, Pacific lamprey and Pacific eulachon have been important traditional foods for Native American tribes of the Columbia River Basin and coastal areas of Oregon and Washington. These fish have large ranges – spending part of their lives in the ocean and part in freshwater streams – and they require specific environmental conditions to survive, migrate, and reproduce. For these reasons, Pacific lamprey and Pacific eulachon are likely threatened by a variety of climate change impacts to both their ocean and freshwater habitats. However, to date, little research has explored these impacts, despite the importance of these species to tribal communities.This project will evaluate the effects of future...

Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Academics & scientific researchers, Climate Change, Columbia River Basin, Conservation Planning, Eulachon, All tags... Federal resource managers, Hydrologic regime shift, LCC Network Science Catalog, NPLCC, OR-1, OR-2, OR-3, OR-4, OR-5, Oregon, Pacific Lamprey, Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Priority D. Hydrologic regime changes on anadromous fish, Surface Sea Temperature, Traditional Ecological knowledge, Tribes, WA-1, WA-2, WA-3, WA-4, WA-5, WA-6, WA-7, WA-8, Washington, climate change, completed, product, Fewer tags

Cross-boundary Planning for Resilience and Restoration of Endangered Oak Savannah and Coastal Douglas-fir Forest Ecosystems

This project aims to support dry forest and savannah habitats in The Georgia Basin. Management objectives are to synthesize existing data into GIS tools that will prioritize land acquisition and conservation investment. These tools will be used throughout British Columbia, Washington & Oregon to facilitate cross-boundary planning for the endangered forest and Savannah habitat.Project Objectives: a) synthesize existing regional models of invasive/native species distribution and terrestrial ecosystem mapping, forest age and climate change to deliver GIS tools to prioritize land acquisition and conservation investment throughout the Georgia Basin; b) integrate those tools with US partners to facilitate cross-boundary...

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2014, Academics & scientific researchers, British Columbia, Conservation Design, Conservation Planning, All tags... Decision Support, Federal resource managers, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, LCC Network Science Catalog - LCCScienceCatalog, Map, North Pacific Landscape Conservation Cooperative, OR-1, OR-2, OR-3, OR-4, OR-5, Oak Savannah, Oregon, Oregon, Oregon, Priority B. Changes in air temperature and precipitation on forests, Project, Report, State agencies, WA-1, WA-10, WA-2, WA-3, WA-4, WA-5, WA-6, WA-7, WA-8, WA-9, Washington, Washington, Washington, Website, completed, onGoing, Fewer tags

The cold-water climate shield: delineating refugia for preserving salmonid fishes through the 21st century - Publication

Existing stream temperature data will be compiled from numerous federal, state, tribal, and private sources to develop an integrated regional database. Spatial statistical models for river networks will be applied to these data to develop an accurate model that predicts stream temperature for all fish-bearing streams in the US portion of the NPLCC. Differences between model outputs for historic and future climate scenarios will be used to assess spatial variation in the vulnerability of sensitive fish species across the NPLCC.

Categories: Data, Publication; Types: Citation, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Academics & scientific researchers, California, Climate Change, Conservation Planning, Data Management and Integration, All tags... Decision Support, Federal resource managers, Hydrologic regime shift, LCC Network Science Catalog, NPLCC, NorWest, OR-1, OR-2, OR-3, OR-4, OR-5, Oregon, Priority D. Hydrologic regime changes on anadromous fish, Publication, State agencies, Stream temperature, WA-1, WA-10, WA-2, WA-3, WA-4, WA-5, WA-6, WA-7, WA-8, WA-9, Washington, climate change, completed, product, stream network models, temperature model, Fewer tags

Yellow-cedar decline and recovery: Climate modeling and data assimilation

Background: Yellow-cedar (Callitropsis nootkatensis) is an economically and culturally important tree of the North Pacific coastal rainforest, ranging from northern California through Southeast Alaska. The species has been in decline for many decades, particularly in the northern portion of its range (Southeast Alaska and coastal British Columbia), and is currently under consideration for listing as Threatened or Endangered. Previous work has delineated locations of yellow-cedar stands across the species range, and modeled geophysical features associated with presence of the tree.Purpose: The purpose of this project is to support refinement of a range-wide analysis of bioclimatic factors that support healthy vs....

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: AK-1, Academics & scientific researchers, Alaska, BIOSPHERICINDICATORS, British Columbia, All tags... CA-1, CA-2, CA-3, Callitropsis nootkatensis, DYNAMIC VEGETATION/ECOSYSTEM MODELS, Decision Support, EVERGREEN VEGETATION, FORESTS, Federal resource managers, LCC Network Science Catalog, LCC Network Science Catalog - LCCScienceCatalog, NPLCC, North Pacific Landscape Conservation Cooperative, OR-1, OR-2, OR-3, OR-4, OR-5, Pacific Northwest, Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Project, RANGE CHANGES, SPECIES MIGRATION, TEMPERATE CONIFEROUS FOREST, TEMPERATE RAINFOREST, Tribes, Vulnerability Assessment, WA-1, WA-2, WA-3, WA-4, WA-6, WA-7, WA-8, WA-9, biota, climate change, environment, onGoing, yellow-cedar, Fewer tags

Final Report Developing a comprehensive interagency stream temperature database and high-resolution NorWeST climate scenarios for the NPLCC

Existing stream temperature data will be compiled from numerous federal, state, tribal, and private sources to develop an integrated regional database. Spatial statistical models for river networks will be applied to these data to develop an accurate model that predicts stream temperature for all fish-bearing streams in the US portion of the NPLCC. Differences between model outputs for historic and future climate scenarios will be used to assess spatial variation in the vulnerability of sensitive fish species across the NPLCC.

Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Academics & scientific researchers, California, Climate Change, Conservation Planning, Data Management and Integration, All tags... Decision Support, Federal resource managers, Hydrologic regime shift, LCC Network Science Catalog, NPLCC, NorWest, OR-1, OR-2, OR-3, OR-4, OR-5, Oregon, Priority D. Hydrologic regime changes on anadromous fish, Report, State agencies, Stream temperature, WA-1, WA-10, WA-2, WA-3, WA-4, WA-5, WA-6, WA-7, WA-8, WA-9, Washington, climate change, completed, product, stream network models, temperature model, Fewer tags

The Available Science Assessment Project: Evaluating Adaptation Actions for Sea Level Rise and Coastal Change

Practitioners struggle with how to identify, prioritize, and implement climate adaptation actions that can effectively reduce vulnerability; these decisions may be more easily made and successfully implemented if they are informed by scientific evidence. EcoAdapt, the Institute for Natural Resources, and the Northwest Climate Science Center have partnered on the Available Science Assessment Project (ASAP) to synthesize and evaluate scientific knowledge on specific adaptation actions to determine the implementation conditions under which these actions may be most effective; we are examining the science behind sea level rise adaptation actions in the Northwest. We will convene managers and scientists at in-person...

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: CA-1, CA-2, Climate Change, Conservation NGOs, Decision Support, All tags... Federal resource managers, Informing Conservation Delivery, LCC Network Science Catalog, LCC Network Science Catalog - LCCScienceCatalog, OR-1, OR-2, OR-3, OR-4, OR-5, Project, State agencies, Vulnerability, Vulnerability Assessment, WA-1, WA-2, WA-3, WA-4, WA-6, WA-7, WA-8, WA-9, Washington, onGoing, Fewer tags

Tracking Wetland Changes over Time at Multiple Scales in Bird Conservation Regions 9 and 10

This proposal is to deliver the pilot component of a wetland tracking project initiated by the CIJV in 2010. The wetland trend project will deliver an assessment of wetland trends and develop an approach for tracking wetland trends into the future; this will have relevance to conservation planning throughout transboundary ecological planning units, including Bird Conservation Regions (BCRs) 9 and 10, and the Cold Deserts and Western Cordillera Ecoregions (Figure 2). The project is currently in a scoping stage, wherein high-level approaches are being developed for wetland tracking in 2-3 regional priority areas of the CIJV. Delivery of the pilot projects will support wider implementation of the tracking project as...

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Alberta, BCR 10, BCR 9, British Columbia, CA-1, All tags... 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, California, California, Climate Change, Colorado, Colorado, Colorado, Colorado, Colorado, Columbia Basin, Federal resource managers, Goal 1: Maintain large, intact landscapes, ID-1, ID-1, ID-1, ID-1, ID-2, ID-2, ID-2, ID-2, Idaho, Idaho, Idaho, Idaho, Idaho, LCC Network Science Catalog, MT-1, MT-1, MT-1, MT-1, Montana, Montana, Montana, Montana, Montana, NV-2, NV-2, NV-2, NV-2, NV-4, NV-4, NV-4, NV-4, Nevada, Nevada, Nevada, Nevada, Nevada, OR-2, OR-2, OR-2, OR-2, Oregon, Oregon, Oregon, Oregon, Oregon, Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Project, Regional & county planners, Report, 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, 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, Wetlands, Wyoming, Wyoming, Wyoming, Wyoming, Wyoming, completed, environment, Fewer tags

Long-term Changes in Environmental Characteristics Required by Sage-grouse Predicted under Climate Change

Sagebrush (Artemisia spp.)-dominated shrublands are one of the most widespread ecosystems in western North America but also among the most imperiled due to interactions among land use, fire, and exotic plants. Global climate change models predict an accelerated loss of sagebrush due to synergistic feedbacks among disturbance patterns and vegetation response; only 20% would remain under the most extreme scenario of >6 C increase by the end of this century (Fig. 1). Much of the current sagebrush distribution within the Great Northern Landscape Conservation Cooperative (GNLCC) would be lost. The conservation status of Greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus), the most visible of >350 plant and wildlife species...

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: CO-3, Climate Change, Colorado, Colorado, Columbia Basin, All tags... Data Acquisition and Development, Datasets/Database, Decision Support, 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-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, 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, Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Project, Report, Sage Shrub/Grassland, Sage Steppe Areas, Sage-Steppe, State agencies, UT-1, UT-1, UT-1, UT-1, Utah, Utah, Utah, Utah, Utah, WA-1, WA-1, WA-1, WA-1, 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

Communicating and Involving the Public and Stakeholders in the Use of Fish and Wildlife Data and Information for Purposes of Landscape Level Management and Decision Support

This project is part of an ongoing effort to develop and implement a landscape level decision support system (DSS) across the boundaries of Idaho, Washington, Oregon, and Montana. The project will strengthen public understanding in the use of objective and scientific fish and wildlife data and predictive modeling for purposes of developing geospatially-based landscape science to inform conservation and development actions. The project will inform, educate, and garner public and user support of the DSS upon its public release, aid in the development and use of the DSS web interface based on customer input and preferences, and provide communications strategies, tools, messages, forums, and feedback for improving public...

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: British Columbia, CA-1, CA-2, CA-2, CA-2, All tags... California, California, Goal 2: Conserve landscape connectivity, ID-1, ID-1, ID-1, ID-2, ID-2, ID-2, Idaho, Idaho, Idaho, Informing Conservation Delivery, Interested public, LCC Network Science Catalog, Land Use Change, MT-1, MT-1, MT-1, Montana, Montana, Montana, Nevada, None Identified, North Dakota, OR-1, OR-1, OR-1, OR-2, OR-2, OR-2, OR-3, OR-3, OR-3, OR-4, OR-4, OR-4, OR-5, OR-5, OR-5, Oregon, Oregon, Oregon, Presentation, Project, Regional & county planners, South Dakota, State agencies, Training/Outreach/Workshop, Utah, WA-1, WA-1, WA-1, WA-2, WA-2, WA-2, WA-3, WA-3, WA-3, WA-4, WA-4, WA-4, WA-5, WA-5, WA-5, WA-6, WA-6, WA-6, WA-7, WA-7, WA-7, WA-8, WA-8, WA-8, WA-9, WA-9, WA-9, WY-1, WY-1, WY-1, Washington, Washington, Washington, Website, Wyoming, Wyoming, Wyoming, Wyoming, environment, onGoing, Fewer tags

Understanding and Adapting To Climate Change in Aquatic Ecosystems at Landscape and River Basin Scales. A Decision Support Workshop for Integrating Research and Management

Workshop goals were to gather a diverse group of researchers and management professionals to focus on three objectives: Sharing current information regarding the effects of climate change on aquatic ecosystems Presenting analysis tools that could assist managers in addressing climate change Discussing management implications of climate change, the utility of existing tools, and future information & analysis needs

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Academics & scientific researchers, Alberta, Aquatic Connectivity, British Columbia, Bull Trout, All tags... CO-2, CO-3, Climate Change, Colorado, Colorado, Columbia Basin, Cutthroat Trout, Federal resource managers, GNLCC, Goal 2: Conserve landscape connectivity, Goal 3: Maintain hydrologic regimes, ID-1, ID-2, Idaho, Idaho, LCC Network Science Catalog, MT-1, Montana, Montana, OR-2, Oregon, Oregon, Presentation, Project, Riverine, Rivers & Riparian Corridors, Rocky Mountain, State agencies, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, Training/Outreach/Workshop, UT-1, Utah, Utah, WA-1, WA-2, WA-3, WA-4, WA-5, WA-8, WY-1, Washington, Washington, Wyoming, Wyoming, completed, Fewer tags