Montana Capacity Support for Decision Support System Development

Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks (MTFWP) has been involved with developing a crucial areas statewide Decision Support System (DSS) since 2008 in parallel with activities from the Western Governors Association (WGA). In April, 2010, the Crucial Areas Planning System (CAPS) was released. Also in 2010, the WGA provided funding to the 18 western states to begin developing DSSs for crucial areas among and between the 18 western states. MTFWP will be piloting a transboundary DSS for fish, wildlife, and habitats along the Idaho-Montana Divide, beginning in July 2010. MTFWP will also participating in a dual role of advisory and collaboration with the Washington, Oregon and Idaho Columbia Plateau pilot project.This...

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Alberta, Alpine, Alpine Lakes, Applications and Tools, British Columbia, All tags... CAPS, CO-3, Canada Lynx, Colorado, Colorado, Connectivity, Data Management and Integration, Datasets/Database, Decision Support, Federal resource managers, Goal 1: Maintain large, intact landscapes, Goal 2: Conserve landscape connectivity, Grizzly Bear, ID-1, ID-1, ID-1, ID-2, ID-2, ID-2, Idaho, Idaho, Idaho, Idaho, Idaho-Montana Divide and Washington, LCC Network Science Catalog, Land Use Change, MT-1, MT-1, MT-1, Montana, Montana, Montana, Montana, OR-2, OR-2, OR-2, Oregon, Oregon, Oregon, Oregon, Oregon and Idaho Columbia Plateau, Project, Report, Rivers & Riparian Corridors, Rocky Mountain, Sage Shrub/Grassland, State agencies, Sub-Alpine, Tribes, Trumpeter Swan, UT-1, UT-1, UT-1, Utah, Utah, Utah, 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-8, WA-8, WA-8, WY-1, WY-1, WY-1, Washington, Washington, Washington, Washington, Whitebark Pine, Wolverine, Woodland, Wyoming, Wyoming, Wyoming, Wyoming, completed, environment, Fewer tags

Transboundary Connectivity: Washington & British Columbia

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...

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Aquatic Connectivity, British Columbia, Canada Lynx, Cascade Coastal, Cascadia, All tags... Climate Change, Columbia Basin, Columbia Plateau, Columbia Selkirk, Connectivity, Data Acquisition and Development, Datasets/Database, Decision Support, Federal resource managers, Goal 2: Conserve landscape connectivity, Grizzly Bear, ID-1, Idaho, Idaho, LCC Network Science Catalog, Land Use Change, MT-1, MT-1, MT-1, MT-1, Monitoring, Montana, Montana, Montana, Montana, Montana, OR-2, OR-2, OR-2, OR-2, Okanagan Kettle, Oregon, Oregon, Oregon, Oregon, Oregon, Policy makers & regulators, Project, Report, Rocky Mountain, State agencies, 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, Washington, Washington, Washington, Washington, Washington, Wolverine, completed, environment, Fewer tags

Wolverine metapopulation monitoring and connectivity in the U.S. Rocky Mountains and North Cascades

This project is intended to advance wolverine conservation across the Rocky Mountains and North Cascades in the contiguous United States. It will include maintaining landscape connectivity among occupied wolverine habitats, assessing the feasibility to assist wolverine distribution expansion with translocation, developing and implementing a collaborative multi-state monitoring plan to assess distribution and genetic characteristics of the metapopulation, and engaging key partners at multiple levels to prioritize habitat conservation, population connectivity, and management activities.We have 4 overarching project objectives, all of which apply across the range of wolverines in the contiguous U.S.:1. Maintain landscape...

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Alberta, British Columbia, Cascadia, Climate Change, Colorado, All tags... Connectivity, Datasets/Database, Federal resource managers, Goal 2: Conserve landscape connectivity, Idaho, Informing Conservation Delivery, LCC Network Science Catalog, Land Use Change, Map, Monitoring, Montana, Policy makers & regulators, Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Project, Report, Rocky Mountain, State agencies, Washington, Wolverine, Wyoming, environment, onGoing, Fewer tags

Core Habitat Identification and Fine Scale Habitat Use of Grizzly Bears in the US Northern Rockies and Southern Canada

This project will focus on analysis of 10 years of GPS telemetry data for 60 grizzly bears across the threatened and fragmented trans-border grizzly bear subpopulations in the Cabinet, Yaak, Purcell, and Selkirk Mountain (Proctor et al. 2012) with a goal to identify areas of high quality core habitat and understand the ecological characteristics that underpin habitat use. We will use Resource Selection Function habitat-use models for partitioned by sex and in each of 3 seasons to capture the variation of bear habitat use. We will also work to integrate our results to inform wildlife and land managers on where to concentrate their management efforts by season to promote population health and resilience in both the...

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: British Columbia, Cabinet, Connectivity, Data Management and Integration, Federal resource managers, All tags... Goal 1: Maintain large, intact landscapes, Goal 2: Conserve landscape connectivity, Grizzly Bear, Grizzly Bears, ID-1, Idaho, Idaho, LCC Network Science Catalog, Land Use Change, MT-1, MT-1, MT-1, MT-1, Monitoring, Montana, Montana, Montana, Montana, Montana, Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Project, Publication, Purcell, Purcell, Purcell, Purcell, Report, Riparian Areas, Rocky Mountain, Selkirk Mountains, Selkirk Mountains, Selkirk Mountains, State agencies, Sub-Alpine, WA-5, WA-5, WA-5, WA-5, Washington, Washington, Washington, Washington, Washington, Woodland, Yaak, Yaak, Yaak, Yaak, and Selkirk Mountain, completed, environment, Fewer tags

Cross cultural capacity building: Landscape conservation and climate change adaptation with the Blackfeet Nation

The purpose of the proposed project is to increase the cross cultural capacity of indigenous and non-indigenous groups to collaborate on climate adaptation in the Crown of the Continent (CoC) a sub-region of the GNLCC area. In order to achieve this purpose, the objectives of this project are to conduct a pilot study 1) to identify the necessary protocols for collaboration between the Blackfeet Nation and government and non-government agencies active, and 2) to identify the priorities of the Blackfeet Nation in climate change adaptation. The outcomes of this project will include both written and presented material on the priorities of, and protocols for working with the Blackfeet Nation, including a widely distributed...

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Alberta, British Columbia, Climate Change, Connectivity, Crown of the Continent, All tags... Goal 2: Conserve landscape connectivity, Goal 5: Sustain local, place-based land use values, LCC Network Science Catalog, MT-1, Montana, Montana, Presentation, Project, Publication, Rocky Mountain, Socio-economics/Ecosystem Services, Tribes, adaptation, environment, onGoing, Fewer tags

Incorporating ecological integrity and stream-network connectivity into the Western Governors assessment of aquatic crucial habitats in Washington and Oregon

The Western Governors Association has sponsored an assessment of crucial habitats which will be used for the evaluation of landscape-scale energy, land use, and transportation projects. At present, this assessment does not incorporate ecological integrity or stream-network connectivity into its assessment of aquatic habitats. This proposal will address in both Oregon and Washington states the need to incorporate ecological integrity and stream network connectivity into the Western Governors assessment of aquatic crucial habitats.FY2012Objectives:To incorporate ecological integrity and stream-network connectivity into the Western Governors assessment of aquatic crucial habitats for Oregon and Washington. The resulting...

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Aquatic Connectivity, British Columbia, CA-1, CA-2, CA-2, All tags... CA-2, CA-2, California, California, Climate Change, Columbia Basin, Datasets/Database, Federal resource managers, Goal 3: Maintain hydrologic regimes, ID-1, ID-1, ID-1, ID-1, Idaho, Idaho, Idaho, Idaho, Idaho, LCC Network Science Catalog, Land Use Change, Nevada, OR-1, OR-1, OR-1, OR-1, OR-2, OR-2, OR-2, OR-2, OR-3, OR-3, OR-3, OR-3, OR-4, OR-4, OR-4, OR-4, OR-5, OR-5, OR-5, OR-5, Oregon, Oregon, Oregon, Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Project, Regional & county planners, Report, Riparian Areas, Riverine, State agencies, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, 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-6, WA-6, WA-6, WA-6, WA-7, WA-7, WA-7, WA-7, WA-8, WA-8, WA-8, WA-8, WA-9, WA-9, WA-9, WA-9, Washington, Washington, Washington, completed, environment, Fewer tags

Science Support for Land Conservation in the Rocky Mountain Corridor

The Heart of the Rockies Initiative (HOTR), on behalf of its 24 land conservation non-governmental partners, and its federal and state agency partners, seeks a second year of science support to incorporate emerging data on landscape integrity and connectivity, crucial habitats, and climate change response into downscaled data layers that can help the partners identify and validate their immediate and longer term conservation targets.FY2013Objectives:The primary goal of the HOTR science support project is to deliver the latest science in climate adaptation and habitat connectivity conservation to conservation practitioners and their partners in the Central Rocky Mountain region. HOTR conservation partners want assurance...

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Alberta, British Columbia, Climate Change, Connectivity, Conservation Plan/Design/Framework, All tags... Conservation Planning, Crown of the Continent, Data Acquisition and Development, Datasets/Database, Federal resource managers, Goal 1: Maintain large, intact landscapes, Goal 2: Conserve landscape connectivity, Greater Sage-Grouse, Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem (GYE), Grizzly Bear, High Divide, ID-1, ID-2, ID-2, ID-2, ID-2, Idaho, Idaho, Informing Conservation Delivery, Invasive Species, LCC Network Science Catalog, Land Use Change, MT-1, MT-1, MT-1, MT-1, Montana, Montana, Montana, Montana, Montana, Natural Fire Regimes, OR-2, OR-2, OR-2, OR-2, Oregon, Oregon, Oregon, Oregon, Oregon, Private land owners, Project, Pronghorn, Regional & county planners, Report, Rivers & Riparian Corridors, Rocky Mountain, Sage Shrub/Grassland, Sage-Steppe, WY-1, WY-1, WY-1, WY-1, Washington, Wolverine, Woodland, Wyoming, Wyoming, Wyoming, Wyoming, Wyoming, completed, environment, Fewer tags

Positioning the Sage Steppe Partner Forum as a pivotal communication tool for Sagebrush Biome conservation implementation (project not executed, funding reprioritized)

The Great Northern Landscape Conservation Cooperative (GNLCC) is sponsoring the Sage Steppe Partner Forum to help facilitate collaboration among conservation practitioners and partnerships that share landscape conservation challenges in an eco-geographic context. Draft Partner Forum guidance suggests that field-level managers, scientists, and conservation constituents will, through a loosely structured process, identify priority conservation information and scientific needs that fall within the scope of the Great Northern LCC Strategic Conservation Framework.The sagebrush-steppe biome covers some 480,000 square miles in 14 western states and provinces expanding the SSPF challenge to areas outside the GNLCC geography....

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: British Columbia, Burrowing Owl, California, Climate Change, Colorado, All tags... Columbia Basin, Connectivity, Conservation Planning, Data Acquisition and Development, Datasets/Database, Federal resource managers, Goal 1: Maintain large, intact landscapes, Goal 2: Conserve landscape connectivity, Goal 4: Promote landscape-scale disturbances, Greater Sage-Grouse, Idaho, Informing Conservation Delivery, Invasive Species, LCC Network Science Catalog, Land Use Change, Montana, Mule deer, Natural Fire Regimes, Nevada, Oregon, Policy makers & regulators, Project, Pronghorn, Pygmy Rabbit, Riparian Areas, Sage Shrub/Grassland, Sage-Steppe, State agencies, Utah, Washington, Website, Wyoming, completed, environment, Fewer tags

Climate adaptation planning for Nez Perce fisheries

Native fish of the Columbia River Basin, and the ecosystems that support them, are an innate and critical part of Nez Perce culture. The persistence of these fisheries may be at risk due to climate change, especially in combination with other stressors (e.g., habitat fragmentation and disconnectivity). Assessing vulnerability of these fisheries to climate change, considering options for action, and taking action will require strategic collaboration and coordination with multiple partners. Here, we propose to start building those partnerships to address this landscape-level conservation concern.The overarching philosophy of Nez Perce fisheries management is to ensure that all species and populations of anadromous...

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Bull Trout, Climate Change, Columbia Basin, Conservation Planning, Cutthroat Trout, All tags... Federal resource managers, Goal 3: Maintain hydrologic regimes, Goal 5: Sustain local, place-based land use values, Idaho, Informing Conservation Delivery, LCC Network Science Catalog, Land Use Change, Montana, Oregon, Project, Report, Rocky Mountain, Salmon, State agencies, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, Training/Outreach/Workshop, Tribes, Washington, environment, onGoing, Fewer tags

TestProject

This project will support the design and development of a large-scale aquatics monitoring program across 1.5 million acres of the Crown of the Continent, as part of a 10-year, landscape-level restoration project established and funded by the U.S. Forest Service in 2010. The Forest Service has directed each of ten Cooperative Forest Landscape Restoration Program projects to develop and implement a large-scale monitoring program to inventory current resource conditions and facilitate the short- and long-term evaluation of the effectiveness of restoration projects to inform future management strategies and actions: the work proposed here would address significant challenges associated with maintaining or improving...

Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Bull Trout, Climate Change, Completed, Cutthroat Trout, Goal 3: Maintain hydrologic regimes, All tags... Goal 4: Promote landscape-scale disturbances, LCCResourceType, Land Use Change, MT-1, Montana, Montana, Rivers & Riparian Corridors, Rocky Mountain, Southwest Crown of the Continent, Fewer tags

A New Model of Watershed-scale Aquatic Monitoring from the Crown of the Continent: Quantifying the Benefits of Watershed Restoration in the Face of Climate Change

This project will support the design and development of a large-scale aquatics monitoring program across 1.5 million acres of the Crown of the Continent, as part of a 10-year, landscape-level restoration project established and funded by the U.S. Forest Service in 2010. The Forest Service has directed each of ten Cooperative Forest Landscape Restoration Program projects to develop and implement a large-scale monitoring program to inventory current resource conditions and facilitate the short- and long-term evaluation of the effectiveness of restoration projects to inform future management strategies and actions: the work proposed here would address significant challenges associated with maintaining or improving...

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Bull Trout, Climate Change, Cutthroat Trout, Federal resource managers, Goal 3: Maintain hydrologic regimes, All tags... Goal 4: Promote landscape-scale disturbances, Land Use Change, MT-1, Monitoring, Montana, Montana, Policy makers & regulators, Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Project, Rivers & Riparian Corridors, Rocky Mountain, Southwest Crown of the Continent, State agencies, completed, Fewer tags

The NorWeST Regional Stream Temperature Model for Mapping Thermal Habitats and Predicting Vulnerability of Aquatic Species to Climate Change Across the Great Northern LCC

Existing stream temperature data were compiled from numerous federal, state, tribal, and private sources to develop an integrated regional database. Spatial statistical models for river networks were applied to these data to develop an accurate model that predicts stream temperature for all fish-bearing streams in the US portion of the GNLCC. Differences between model outputs for historic and future climate scenarios were used to assess spatial variation in the vulnerability of sensitive fish species across the GNLCC.FY2011Objectives: Develop a regional stream temperature model that incorporates important climate drivers, wildfire/riparian conditions, and geomorphic factors; Use the model to understand and predict...

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Academics & scientific researchers, Aquatic Connectivity, British Columbia, Bull Trout, CA-1, All tags... CA-2, CA-2, CA-2, CA-2, CA-3, CA-3, CA-3, CA-3, CA-5, CA-5, CA-5, CA-5, CO-2, CO-2, CO-2, CO-2, CO-3, CO-3, CO-3, CO-3, California, California, Cascadia, Climate Change, Colorado, Colorado, Colorado, Colorado, Columbia Basin, Cutthroat Trout, Data Acquisition and Development, Datasets, Datasets/Database, Federal resource managers, Goal 2: Conserve landscape connectivity, Goal 3: Maintain hydrologic regimes, ID-1, ID-1, ID-1, ID-1, ID-2, ID-2, ID-2, ID-2, Idaho, Idaho, Idaho, Idaho, Invasive Species, LCC Network Science Catalog, MT-1, MT-1, MT-1, MT-1, Map, Models, Montana, Montana, Montana, Montana, NV-2, NV-2, NV-2, NV-2, Nevada, Nevada, Nevada, Nevada, Northwest, Northwest U.S., OR-1, OR-1, OR-1, OR-1, OR-2, OR-2, OR-2, OR-2, OR-3, OR-3, OR-3, OR-3, OR-4, OR-4, OR-4, OR-4, OR-5, OR-5, OR-5, OR-5, Oregon, Oregon, Oregon, Oregon, Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Project, Riverine, Rivers & Riparian Corridors, Rocky Mountain, Sage-Steppe, Salmon, State agencies, Steelhead Trout, Stream, Temperature, UT-1, UT-1, UT-1, UT-1, Utah, Utah, Utah, Utah, Vulnerability Assessment, 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-6, WA-6, WA-6, WA-6, WA-7, WA-7, WA-7, WA-7, WA-8, WA-8, WA-8, WA-8, WA-9, WA-9, WA-9, WA-9, WY-1, WY-1, WY-1, WY-1, Washington, Washington, Washington, Washington, Website, Wyoming, Wyoming, Wyoming, Wyoming, completed, environment, Fewer tags

Predicting Effects of Climate Change on Aquatic Ecosystems in the Crown of the Continent Ecosystem : Combining Vulnerability Assessments, Landscape Connectivity , and Modeling for Conservation and Adaptation

We propose a regional assessment of aquatic species vulnerabilities and responses to climate change as the basis for adaptive management for aquatic ecosystems in the Great Northern LCC, using the Transboundary Flathead Ecosystem as a case example. This region encompasses a complex mix of federal, state, tribal, and private lands in the US and federal, provincial and private lands in Canada. The complex suite of ownerships, international relations, and agency objectives establish their own set of challenges; however, all will experience a similar range of climatic (e.g., long-term drought and declining snow pack) and non-climatic (e.g., habitat fragmentation, shifting land- and water use patterns, and invasive species)...

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Alberta, Applications and Tools, Aquatic Ecosystems, British Columbia, Bull Trout, All tags... Climate Change, Crown of the Continent, Cutthroat Trout, Datasets/Database, Federal resource managers, Goal 2: Conserve landscape connectivity, Goal 3: Maintain hydrologic regimes, Invasive Species, LCC Network Science Catalog, Land Use Change, MT-1, Montana, Montana, Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Project, Regional & county planners, Rivers & Riparian Corridors, Rocky Mountain, State agencies, Training/Outreach/Workshop, Vulnerability Assessment, completed, environment, Fewer tags

Great Northern Landscape Conservation Cooperative Geospatial Data Portal Extension: Implementing a GNLCC Spatial Toolkit and Phenology Server

LC MAP, the Landscape Conservation Management and Analysis Portal, allows GNLCC partners to discover, use, develop, manage, and distribute datasets that address LCC priority issues. In FY11, this effort will extend LCMAP to allow users to generate dynamic interactive map viewers, modeled output, and web services for use in ArcExplorer and other client tools. In addition, the project will build the LCMAP Phenology Service, adding ESRI image services to the application suite and allowing GIS analysts and modelers access to a full suite of phenology data for use in ArcMap and other client tools.The set of data development and presentation tools planned will allow GIS analysts in the GNLCC community to work with multiple...

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Academics & scientific researchers, Alberta, Applications and Tools, British Columbia, CO-2, All tags... CO-3, CO-3, CO-3, CO-3, Cascadia, Climate Change, Colorado, Colorado, Columbia Basin, Connectivity, Conservation NGOs, Data Management and Integration, Datasets/Database, Decision Support, Federal resource managers, GNLCC, Goal 1: Maintain large, intact landscapes, Goal 2: Conserve landscape connectivity, Goal 3: Maintain hydrologic regimes, Goal 4: Promote landscape-scale disturbances, 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, OR-2, OR-2, OR-2, OR-2, Oregon, Oregon, Oregon, Oregon, Oregon, Project, Rocky Mountain, Sage-Steppe, UT-1, UT-1, UT-1, UT-1, 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, Wyoming, Wyoming, Wyoming, Wyoming, Wyoming, completed, environment, Fewer tags

Landscape-level assessment of ESA-listed spring-chinook distribution in Upper Columbia Basin watersheds using environmental DNA

The goal of this study is to use eDNA as a cost effective tool for documenting the occurrence and distribution of ESA-listed spring-chinook (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) throughout the Okanogan and Methow watersheds in an effort to map habitat use and connectivity. Our approach will use eDNA to detect low density spring-chinook in filtered water samples to inventory distribution and re-colonization of tributaries at strategically-sampled points throughout entire stream networks. This approach will provide one of the first applications of eDNA technology for monitoring distribution of native fish species of conservation concern. The findings will help the Colville Tribe Fisheries Managers assess aquatic connectivity...

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Columbia Basin, Data Acquisition and Development, Datasets/Database, Federal resource managers, Goal 3: Maintain hydrologic regimes, All tags... Invasive Species, LCC Network Science Catalog, Land Use Change, Methow sub-basin, Monitoring, Okanogan sub-basin, Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Project, Publication, Salmon, State agencies, Training/Outreach/Workshop, Tribes, WA-1, WA-4, WA-4, WA-4, WA-4, WA-8, WA-8, WA-8, WA-8, Washington, Washington, completed, environment, Fewer tags

Towards developing an interagency stream temperature database and high-resolution stream temperature model for British Columbia with a focus on pilot watersheds in the NPLCC and GNLCC

Stream temperature data will be compiled from federal and provincial government agencies, as well as other data holders in British Columbia which will be housed in an interagency database. Spatial statistical models for river networks like those used for NorWeST will be used with these data to develop a consistent set of high-resolution predictions for all streams and reaches within streams for a pilot area within the Cascadia ecotypic area of the GNLCC (i.e., middle Fraser River and Okanagan River basins). The pilot area work would entail development of technical protocols so that future efforts could be scaled broadly across BC and the northern half of the GNLCC to ultimately provide a consistent set of international...

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Aquatic Connectivity, British Columbia, Cascadia, Climate Change, Columbia Basin, All tags... Data Acquisition and Development, Data Management and Integration, Datasets/Database, Decision Support, Federal resource managers, Goal 2: Conserve landscape connectivity, Goal 3: Maintain hydrologic regimes, LCC Network Science Catalog, Land Use Change, Map, Project, Regional & county planners, Report, Riparian Areas, Riverine, Washington, environment, onGoing, Fewer tags

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

Crown of the Continent Landscapes Analysis/Ecological Indicators Project

Funding supports a multiyear initiative entitled Crown of the Continent Landscapes Analysis/Ecological Indicators Project. The work is designed to focus on issues on transboundary data integration and synthesis, habitatconnectivity analysis for grizzly bears (Ursus arctos) and other key wildlife species, and outreach programs aimed at disseminating knowledge, information products, and geospatial tools arising out of this work to the extensive network of Crown Managers Partnership (CMP) and GNLCC collaborators.FY2010Objectives:The monitoring strategy will focus on the development and acquisition of geospatial datasets from remote sensing and other GIS sources designed to track changes in habitats and human footprint...

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Alberta, Alberta, British Columbia, British Columbia, Bull Trout, All tags... Bull Trout, Climate Change, Climate Change, Conservation Planning, Conservation Planning, Crown of the Continent Ecosystm, Crown of the Continent Ecosystm, Cutthroat Trout, Cutthroat Trout, Data Acquisition and Development, Data Acquisition and Development, Datasets/Database, Datasets/Database, Decision Support, Decision Support, Federal resource managers, Federal resource managers, Goal 1: Maintain large, intact landscapes, Goal 1: Maintain large, intact landscapes, Goal 2: Conserve landscape connectivity, Goal 2: Conserve landscape connectivity, Goal 3: Maintain hydrologic regimes, Goal 3: Maintain hydrologic regimes, Goal 4: Promote landscape-scale disturbances, Goal 4: Promote landscape-scale disturbances, Grizzly Bear, Grizzly Bear, Invasive Species, Invasive Species, LCC Network Science Catalog, Land Use Change, Land Use Change, MT-1, MT-1, Methodology/Protocol, Methodology/Protocol, Montana, Montana, Montana, Montana, Project, Regional & county planners, Regional & county planners, Rivers & Riparian Corridors, Rivers & Riparian Corridors, Rocky Mountain, Rocky Mountain, State agencies, State agencies, Sub-Alpine, Sub-Alpine, Website, Website, Whitebark Pine, Whitebark Pine, Wolverine, Wolverine, Woodland, Woodland, environment, environment, environment, onGoing, project, 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...

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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...

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