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We request funding to complete operational scale connectivity analyses within identified priority linkage areas in the British Columbia–Washington transboundary subregion (from the Cascades crest eastward through the Kettle River Range within the Columbia Mountains). Our efforts will build upon previous investments by the Great Northern Landscape Conservation Cooperative and independent analyses that identified the major fracture zones within this landscape and the most important linkage areas to maintain or restore through those fracture zones including those expected to be resilient to climate change. We propose to broaden our partnerships while narrowing our focus for conservation planning to 4 individual linkage...
Additional reports describing key findings for 13 case studies (including 11 species, a vegetation system, and a region). These reports are provided as appendices to the overview report, and are intended to act as stand-alone resources. They include summary descriptions of the project and assessment process; key climate impacts and adaptation actions for each case study; and all materials used to identify potential climate impacts and adaptation actions for each case study (e.g., habitat connectivity models and projected future changes in species distributions, vegetation communities, and climate variables).
A project overview report, which describes the project’s rationale, partnerships, approach, and key findings.
To further develop a science-based biodiversity conservation analysis and implementation process, that will inform the protection, health and resiliency of the landscape and biodiversity of the Okanagan-Similkameen and Kettle corridor (“Okanagan Basin”) in British Columbia, including a deeper consideration and relationship of cooperation with North Central Washington partners to address finer-scale transboundary connectivity, and stressors such as land use changes and changing climate.
We propose an international partnership to facilitate the identification of habitat connectivity conservation opportunities and implementation of connectivity projects in the transboundary area of Washington and British Columbia. The project will engage a transboundary subgroup of the WHCWG co-led by experts from both Washington and British Columbia to: (1) summarize and interpret our statewide and Columbia Plateau ecoregional products (see www.waconnected.org), as well as provincial products, with the objective of highlighting general connectivity patterns and to define where and how to focus our operational-scale transboundary habitat connectivity analyses; (2) establish subregional teams to collaborate on finer-scale...
We are requesting funding to support the development and implementation of connectivity analyses that will inform conservation action under current and future climates for the British Columbia–Washington transboundary region (Part I), and test assumptions of model predictions in the Columbia Plateau Ecoregion (Part II). Our efforts emphasize connectivity analyses focused on the Okanagan-Kettle subregion, where a transboundary partnership will identify site-specific habitat areas and linkages, including those expected to be most resilient to climate change and future human development. We also build upon previously funded work in the Columbia Plateau to rigorously evaluate expert-opinion based connectivity models...
The transboundary region of Washington and British Columbia (Fig. 1) is important for the conservation of many wildlife species. Some species of conservation concern, such as wolverine (Gulo gulo) and Canada lynx (Lynx canadensis), have home ranges that span the international border. Other species depend on the region for seasonal habitat. All regional wildlife species will require a connected network of habitats spanning the border as they adjust their ranges to meet life history requirements under future changes to climate and land-use. Previous analyses have identified numerous areas within the region where habitat connectivity has been disrupted by human activities (Gaines et al. 2001; Singleton et al. 2002,...
The Okanagan-Kettle subregion straddles the Canada–USA border between the Cascade Range on the west and the Monashee Mountains and Kettle Range to the east. It has been identified as a key area for maintenance and restoration of north–south and east–west wildlife habitat connectivity. At the northern extent of the shrub-steppe communities of the Columbia Plateau Ecoregion and Great Basin, it is an important area for north–south movement of shrub-steppe habitats and species; and as the central area between two major mountain ranges, it is important for maintaining movement of large carnivores and their prey.The analysis and connectivity maps we present in this report build on previous work by the Washington Wildlife...
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