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Kentucky Water Science Center (KY WSC)
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Section 2: Science Capacity within the Appalachian Community Federal Departments/Agencies
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Key Findings & Management Recommendations
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The Appalachian LCC-funded study is the first region-wide assessment to document “flow-ecology” relationships – showing connections between observed impacts under current water withdrawal standards (based on daily water gauge data collected over the last 15 years and fish surveys) and the decline in freshwater fish communities.
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Stream Impacts from Water Withdrawals in the Marcellus Shale Region
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Land Use in the Appalachians
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Section 1: Biodiversity and Conservation Challenges Across the Appalachian Region
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Landscape-scale conservation design across biotic realms: sequential integration of aquatic and terrestrial landscapes.
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2017. Scientific Reports Related to this Collaboration with Clemson University. Paul B. Leonard, Robert F. Baldwin & R. Daniel Hanks.
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Interactive Conservation Planning for the Appalachian LCC: Appalachian NatureScape
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Scientific Reports Related to Collaboration with Clemson University
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Landscape-scale conservation design across biotic realms - sequential integration of aquatic and terrestrial landscapes
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Systematic conservation planning has been used extensively throughout the world to identify important areas for maintaining biodiversity and functional ecosystems, and is well suited to address large-scale biodiversity conservation challenges of the twenty-first century. Systematic planning is necessary to bridge implementation, scale, and data gaps in a collaborative effort that recognizes competing land uses. Here, we developed a conservation planning process to identify and unify conservation priorities around the central and southern Appalachian Mountains as part of the Appalachian Landscape Conservation Cooperative (App LCC). Through a participatory framework and sequential, cross-realm integration in spatial optimization modeling we highlight lands and waters that together achieve joint conservation goals from LCC partners for the least cost. This process was driven by a synthesis of 26 multi-scaled conservation targets and optimized for simultaneous representation inside the program Marxan to account for roughly 25% of the LCC geography. We identify five conservation design elements covering critical ecological processes and patterns including interconnected regions as well as the broad landscapes between them. Elements were then subjected to a cumulative threats index for possible prioritization. The evaluation of these elements supports.
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Landscape-scale conservation design across biotic realms - sequential integration of aquatic and terrestrial landscapes
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Systematic conservation planning has been used extensively throughout the world to identify important areas for maintaining biodiversity and functional ecosystems, and is well suited to address large-scale biodiversity conservation challenges of the twenty-first century. Systematic planning is necessary to bridge implementation, scale, and data gaps in a collaborative effort that recognizes competing land uses. Here, we developed a conservation planning process to identify and unify conservation priorities around the central and southern Appalachian Mountains as part of the Appalachian Landscape Conservation Cooperative (App LCC). Through a participatory framework and sequential, cross-realm integration in spatial optimization modeling we highlight lands and waters that together achieve joint conservation goals from LCC partners for the least cost. This process was driven by a synthesis of 26 multi-scaled conservation targets and optimized for simultaneous representation inside the program Marxan to account for roughly 25% of the LCC geography. We identify five conservation design elements covering critical ecological processes and patterns including interconnected regions as well as the broad landscapes between them. Elements were then subjected to a cumulative threats index for possible prioritization. The evaluation of these elements supports
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LCC Coordinators Lessons Learned
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This is a work group to capture the "lessons learned" from the 5-8 year life span of the DOI LCCs.
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LCC Fact Sheet - Northeast Region
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General LCC Fact Sheet prepared by the FWS Northeast Regional Office.
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SC Communications Work Group
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Resources
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Communication-related Content
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LCC ideas.pptx
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slides Yvette put together in Denver - the purpose of that was to help us organize our thoughts at that meeting and to help understand some context of where we've been to examine where we are going. It was not vetted so please keep in mind ...but it if helps jog some thinking, great.
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Lessons Learned Resource Folder
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LCC Lessons Learned WG
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Work Group Lead: Jean Brennan (FWS-SA). What’s worked elsewhere that we can learn from in redefining our 2nd generation Landscape Conservation Partnership? Participants: Members of the LCC community (focus on Coordinators-level). SOW to include:
• Can capture the context of how partnerships evolve, 22 LCCs
• Look at existing organizational development research
• Think about conservation partnerships and networks more broadly
{see dedicated work space: [PEOPLES] tab, [WORKSHOP] secondary navigation}
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