FY15 Proposal

Landscape Conservation Design in the High Divide. An Analysis of Future Landscape Scenarios and Their Viability

Heart of the Rockies Initiative has been diligently applying a Landscape Conservation Design process with full stakeholder engagement to articulate a stakeholder defined conservation vision for the High Divide landscape and to develop plans and strategies to achieve that vision. Our progress to-date includes: completion of the socio-economic data from Headwaters Economics, including a spatial build-out analysis of most of the counties in the project area. initiated the process to build cross-boundary habitat models with Idaho Dept. of Fish and Game and Montana Fish Wildlife and Parks that combine broad-scale habitat and connectivity models with high resolution GPS data identification, gathering and processing...

Landscape Conservation Design in the High Divide. An Analysis of Future Landscape Scenarios and Their Viability

Through this project the Heart of the Rockies Initiative, on behalf of its many High Divide Collaborative partners, has engaged a broad cross-section of regional stakeholders to articulate a commonly shared conservation vision and to develop and implement conservation strategies to achieve that vision for the High Divide landscape of Eastern Idaho/Southwestern Montana. We have deployed a Landscape Conservation Design (LCD) process to provide stakeholders with a collaborative planning framework. Within this framework of stakeholder led conservation design, we have been providing stakeholders with the science based information and tools needed to model current and future landscape conditions and evaluate landscape...