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Dunes Conservation Action Team To enhance the chances of restoring and protecting Puerto Rico’s beaches by synthesizing guidelines and procedures on beach characterization and profiling, planting, fertilization, irrigation, maintenance, monitoring, etc. and working to identify, inventory, and prioritize beaches that need and can accommodate stabilization with vegetation, or can become sources of plants for nursery propagation and planting. Information will include all permit requirements for beach restoration projects, including those associated with beaches used by sea turtles for nesting. Within the selected prioritized beaches the CAT will develop an education & awareness program, to demonstrate benefits, address needs & expectations and promote... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Academics & scientific researchers, Conservation NGOs, Conservation planning, Data Acquisition and Development, Federal resource managers, All tags... Informing Conservation Delivery, Interested public, LCC Network Science Catalog, Map, Methodology/Protocol, Monitoring, Pilot/Case Study, Policy makers & regulators, Project, Regional & county planners, State agencies, biota, environment, onGoing, 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 Relocation of Eastern Box Turtles to reclaimed mineland at the Patoka River NWR Construct enclosures at Columbia Mine to house approximately 60 turtles (translocated animals) that were collected off of the right-of-way for sections 2 and 4 of I-69. Monitor the behavior, survival and reproduction of trans-located box turtles during the captive phase of the new home-range adoption process. Determine the population and habit-use characteristics of the remnant, resident box turtle population at Columbia Mine. Determine the genetics profile of individual trans-located, resident and hatchling turtles and to conduct parentage analysis of hatchlings or eggs detected. Monitor the survival, movements and habitat use of post-release, trans-located turtles for 2 years post-release. Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, Academics & scientific researchers, All tags... Data Acquisition and Development, EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LANDSCAPE, Eastern Tallgrass Prairie and Big Rivers Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Federal resource managers, IN-08, Indiana, Informing Conservation Delivery, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, Landscape Conservation Cooperatives, Methodology/Protocol, Patoka River National Wildlife Refuge, Pilot/Case Study, Policy makers & regulators, Project, captive propagation, completed, eastern box turtle, environment, environment, onGoing, road construction, species relocation, 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 Identifying priority areas for land protection in the South Atlantic: a landscape genetics pilot study This project seeks to develop a tool that strategically identifies priority areas for land protection. This is a pilot study to assess the extent of taxa that contain adequate genetic sampling within the south Atlantic ecoregion for characterization of intraspecific genetic variation. We seek to use genetic data from multiple taxa coupled with GIS data to provide a genetic landscape from which geographic patterns of intraspecific genetic diversity will be inferred. Joint analyses of the resulting genetic landscapes will be used to identify geographic areas where multiple species show atypical patterns of interpopulation divergence or intrapopulation diversity (i.e., a hotspot of high biological value). We will then... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2012, ANTHROPOGENIC/HUMAN INFLUENCED ECOSYSTEMS, AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS, Academics & scientific researchers, Conservation NGOs, All tags... Conservation Plan/Design/Framework, Conservation Planning, Data Management and Integration, FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEMS, Federal resource managers, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, MODELS, Pilot/Case Study, Project, South Atlantic Landscape Conservation Cooperative, State agencies, TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS, biota, biota, completed, inlandWaters, inlandWaters, Fewer tags Designing Sustainable Landscapes in the Northeast Region This project highlights the potential for LCCs to facilitate collaboration among conservation practitioners and research scientists to plan for the future. A team of UMass scientists is developing a landscape change, assessment and design model to assess ecosystems and their capacity to sustain populations of wildlife in the northeastern U.S. in the face of urban growth, climate change, and other stressors. The project plays a major role in developing the science and data for two collaborative landscape planning and design efforts: 1) the pilot Landscape Conservation Design for the Connecticut River Watershed, and 2) Nature’s Network, which expands and elaborates on the data to extend to throughout New England and... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, All tags... Academics & scientific researchers, Applications and Tools, Applications and Tools, Conservation NGOs, Conservation Planning, Conservation design, Conservation planning, Consevation design, Data Acquisition and Development, Data Acquisition and Development, Datasets/Database, Datasets/Database, Decision Support, Decision support, FWS R5 SA Project, Federal resource managers, Informing Conservation Delivery, Informing Conservation Delivery, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, Map, Methodology/Protocol, Methodology/Protocol, NALCC, North Atlantic Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Pilot/Case Study, Policy makers & regulators, Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Population and Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Presentation, Presentation, Project, Publication, Publication, Regional & county planners, Report, Report, Socio-economics/Ecosystem Services, State agencies, Training/Outreach/Workshop, environment, environment, onGoing, Fewer tags A Tool for Understanding Climate Change and Invasive Species Impacts on Watersheds In the tropics, ample freshwater is the primary resource supporting thriving human and ecological communities. In the Pacific Islands, many watersheds are threatened by climate change, urban encroachment, and invasion by water-demanding exotic plant species like strawberry guava (SG). To maintain an adequate freshwater supply, adaptive management strategies are needed to address these concerns while confronting operational barriers to implementation. We developed a prototype watershed decision support tool (WDST) that incorporated: (i) distributed hydrology modeling to quantify effects of climate change and SG invasion on freshwater yield; (ii) a decision support tool that linked potential changes in yield with... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2011, Applications and Tools, Climate, Conservation Design, Conservation NGOs, All tags... Decision Support, Federal resource managers, Freshwater ecosystems, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, Modeling, Monitoring, Pacific Islands LCC, Pacific Islands Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Pilot/Case Study, Project, State agencies, Terrestrial ecosystems, completed, 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 Identifying and integrating optimal cultural and natural sustainability strategies for the South Atlantic Landscape Conservation Cooperative region This pilot project will assist the South Atlantic Landscape Conservation Cooperative (SALCC) identify issues dealing with the integration of natural and cultural resource sustainability and recommend optimal strategies for solving impacts associated with landscape stressors like climate change, invasive species, water scarcity, and habitat fragmentation. The goal of this project will be to provide the SALCC an action plan for use in future efforts to integrate optimal sustainability strategies for natural and cultural resources. The project will identify areas of overlap and disjunction between optimal methods of natural resource sustainability and cultural resource sustainability. Within this framework, cultural... Categories: Data, Project; Tags: 2011, 2012, ANTHROPOGENIC/HUMAN INFLUENCED ECOSYSTEMS, AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS, Conservation NGOs, All tags... Conservation Plan/Design/Framework, Conservation Planning, ENVIRONMENTAL GOVERNANCE/MANAGEMENT, FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEMS, Federal resource managers, HUMAN SETTLEMENTS, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, MARINE ECOSYSTEMS, Methodology/Protocol, Pilot/Case Study, Project, South Atlantic Landscape Conservation Cooperative, State agencies, TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS, Tribes, biota, biota, completed, inlandWaters, inlandWaters, society, society, Fewer tags Development of a Rapid Assessment Protocol for Aquatic Passability of Tidally Influenced Road-Stream Crossings With support from the North Atlantic LCC and Hurricane Sandy Disaster Mitigation funds the North Atlantic Aquatic Connectivity Collaborative (www.streamcontinuity.org) has developed a regional crossing assessment protocol and database, scoring systems for aquatic organism passage, and hydraulic risk of failure assessments based on future storm discharge levels. The existing NAACC protocol was developed primarily for freshwater streams and the suite of organisms that occur in these systems. There is strong interest among conservation practitioners to have a method to assess tidally influenced crossings for their potential as barriers to aquatic organism passage. Protocols designed for freshwater streams will not... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2015, Academics & scientific researchers, Applications and Tools, Applications and Tools, Aquatic Connectivity groups, All tags... Aquatic Connectivity groups, Conservation NGOs, Conservation design, Conservation planning, Data Acquisition and Development, Decision support, Emergency management community, Emergency management community, FWS R5 SA Project, Federal resource managers, Federal resource managers, Informing Conservation Delivery, Infrastructure managers, Infrastructure managers, Interested public, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, Methodology/Protocol, NALCC, North Atlantic Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Pilot/Case Study, Presentation, Private land owners, Project, Report, Socio-economics/Ecosystem Services, environment, environment, onGoing, Fewer tags Assessing Future Energy Development Across the Appalachians Assessing Future Energy Development across the Appalachian LCC used models that combined data on energy development trends and identified where these may intersect with important natural resource and ecosystem services to give a more comprehensive picture of what potential energy development could look like in the Appalachians. Ultimately this information is intended to support dialogue and conservation on how to effectively avoid, minimize, and offset impacts from energy development to important natural areas and the valuable services they provide.A final report from the study outlines the major findings of the potential footprint from coal, wind, and natural gas development. Models that depicts the probability... Categories: Data, Project; Tags: Applications and Tools, Conservation Plan/Design/Framework, Conservation design, Conservation planning, Consevation design, All tags... Data Acquisition and Development, Decision support, Informing Conservation Delivery, LCC Network Science Catalog, Monitoring, Pilot/Case Study, Population and Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Project, Report, Socio-economics/Ecosystem Services, Vulnerability Assessment, biota, biota, boundaries, boundaries, completed, economy, economy, environment, environment, geoscientificInformation, geoscientificInformation, inlandWaters, inlandWaters, utilitiesCommunication, utilitiesCommunication, Fewer tags Aligning Ecological Restoration and Community Interests through Active Experimentation Overgrazing and fire suppression have led to a loss of deep soils and vegetative cover in the 420,000 acre Alamosa Creek watershed in southwestern New Mexico. Rain and snow melt are no longer held by the soils and released slowly, but run off in floods, resulting in catastrophic flows and severe erosion that contribute sediment to Elephant Butte Dam. The diverse community of farmers that irrigate 800 acres of valley land on 49 farms in Cañada Alamosa are looking to revive traditional and develop innovate new practices to maintain their way of life. Partnerships are required to design new land management practices between scientists and local land managers. This project is a component of a larger Alamosa Land Institute... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2012, Alamosa Creek, Cañada Alamosa Watershed, Conservation Design, Datasets/Database, All tags... Desert Landscape Conservation Cooperative, EARTH SCIENCE, EARTH SCIENCE, ENVIRONMENTAL GOVERNANCE/MANAGEMENT, ENVIRONMENTAL GOVERNANCE/MANAGEMENT, Elephant Butte Dam, HUMAN DIMENSIONS, HUMAN DIMENSIONS, Interested public, LAND MANAGEMENT, LAND MANAGEMENT, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, NM-02, New Mexico, New Mexico, Pilot/Case Study, Private land owners, Project, Publication, Socio-economics/Ecosystem Services, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, Tribes, United States, adaptation, agriculture, biodiversity, climate change, community involvement, completed, cultural, ecosystem services, environment, erosion, management, monitoring, native, remote sensing, resilience, restoration, riparian, traditional knowledge, vegetation, water availability, water quality, watershed, Fewer tags Cays Conservation Action Team An urgent problem that we, the Caribbean conservation community, need to address is how best to allocate scarce resources to conservation initiatives directed at cays. Caribbean cays are both culturally and ecologically valuable, but are highly vulnerable to climate change, sea level rise, invasive species, and human uses, including recreational and residential development. In terms of climate change impacts and sea level rise, a few low-lying coralline and mangrove cays have already become partially or completely submerged such as one in the area of Guayanilla, Puerto Rico, monitored by the US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) from 1991 until it’s submergence in 2004. Five species of seabirds and shorebirds that... 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 design, Conservation planning, All tags... Consevation design, Decision support, Federal resource managers, Informing Conservation Delivery, LCC Network Science Catalog, Map, Monitoring, Pilot/Case Study, Policy makers & regulators, Population and Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Presentation, Project, Regional & county planners, State agencies, biota, environment, onGoing, Fewer tags A Monarch’s View of Urban Landscapes: Pilot City Design Projects The Monarch’s View of a City project will lay the groundwork for design principles to guide the development, testing and deployment of future urban conservation for the Monarch butterfly across the Eastern half of the country. This strategy will need to reflect an integrated and interdisciplinary approach, one that includes ecological and social dimensions specific to an urban landscape. Pilot design projects at various scales in at least two cities will advance the state of science for developing landscape conservation design (LCD) guidelines for monarch butterfly conservation in urban areas as described below. While the ETPBR LCC, working through US Fish & Wildlife Service staff, will select cities and manage... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2015, Conservation Design, Conservation NGOs, Datasets/Database, EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LANDSCAPE, All tags... Eastern Tallgrass Prairie and Big Rivers Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Education and Workshops, Informing Conservation Delivery, Interested public, K-12 students & teachers, KS-02, KS-03, Kansas, LCC, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, MN-02, MN-03, MN-04, MN-05, MN-06, MO-05, MO-06, Minnesota, Missouri, Other, Other Landscapes, Other Wildlife, Pilot/Case Study, Plants, Project, Regional & county planners, State agencies, completed, environment, environment, onGoing, Fewer tags Development of an acoustic monitoring network in Puerto Rico to inform wind energy development and conservation planning in the face of climate change. The 6 week project entails using acoustic monitoring technology to provide new information on native and endemic bats of Puerto Rico toward three specific objectives listed below. Dr. Vulinec will work with USFWS, USFS, PR-DNRE, and CLCC personnel to accomplish our shared goals. Project goals will require time at the International Institute for Tropical Forestry (IITF) in San Juan, at El Yunque National Forest, and the Cabo Rojo National Wildlife Refuge.Objectives of project and deliverables expected from fellow: 1. Evaluate native and endemic bat habitat use patterns across elevation and urbanization gradients in El Yunque and the NE Corridor protected areas with an emphasis on tabanuco forests to inform climate... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Academics & scientific researchers, Data Acquisition and Development, Federal resource managers, Interested public, LCC Network Science Catalog, All tags... Monitoring, Pilot/Case Study, Population and Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Presentation, Project, Report, State agencies, biota, completed, environment, Fewer tags Quantifying Ecosystem Processes in Support of River Restoration and Nutrient Reduction Effects of Increased River Floodplain Connectivity in the Maquoketa River Ecosystem services provided by floodplains include removal of nitrogen, phosphorus, and sediments, and sequestration of carbon. Effectiveness of floodplains in providing these services is dependent on the extent and location of connection between floodplain and river. Tributary loading of sediments, nitrogen and phosphorus to the Upper Mississippi River contribute to the development of river and coastal eutrophication as well as hypoxic conditions in the Gulf of Mexico. Recent research has shown that management of river connectivity of channels to floodplains is an effective mitigation strategy to remove nutrients, sediment, and carbon from river flows. The confluence of the Maquoketa and Mississippi Rivers is a... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2014, 2015, 2016, Academics & scientific researchers, Conservation NGOs, All tags... Data Acquisition and Development, Datasets/Database, EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LANDSCAPE, Eastern Tallgrass Prairie and Big Rivers Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Federal resource managers, Gulf Restoration, Gulf hypoxia, IA-01, Iowa, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, Maquoketa River, Methodology/Protocol, Mississippi River, Pilot/Case Study, Project, Report, Socio-economics/Ecosystem Services, State agencies, Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife Refuge, carbon, ecosystem services, environment, environment, floodplain connectivity, funded, nutrient, onGoing, sediment, Fewer tags