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St. Mary's Liming, St. Mary's River, Virginia: The streams of the Saint Mary's Wilderness, located on the slopes of Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains, have been severely compromised by anthropogenic atmospheric acid deposition. This project will add limestone sand using to the headwater streams of St. Mary's River to enhance over 12 miles of stream for brook trout. (Photo: St. Mary's River, Virginia.)

Funded Project Maps: This collection of maps are a result of AppLCC and Partner funded projects.

Agenda: Connecticut River Pilot Core Team Meeting, 08-28-2014: Agenda, Handouts and Presentation for August 28th Core Team Meeting in Hadley, Massachusetts from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.

Document: Notes from 08-28-2014 Core Team Meeting: Summary, notes, and discussion from the August 28 Core Team Meeting in Hadley, MA.

Conservation Planning: The Appalachian LCC’s open-source mapping platform is designed to support the conservation community and their diverse needs to view, create, and analyze spatial data and maps. This platform provides access to a suite of scientific data, relevant to a variety of conservation planning goals/tasks including the execution of custom designed decision support tools. These tools allow a manager or conservation practitioner to make dynamic scenario-based decisions using the most current scientific information.

Document: Threats Ranking Framework: Threats-ranking framework from the NE Lexicon: the document that the NE states are using to try to make State Wildlife Action Plans more comparable

Document: Process and Decisions for Design on the Connecticut River Pilot Project: This document includes the key decisions made through August 2014 on the Connecticut River Pilot Landscape Conservation Design Project. Where available, details such as the meeting at which we reached consensus, options considered, and associated documents are included.

Document: Connecticut River Watershed Species Weighting Matrix: The following matrix is being used by the Terrestrial and Wetland Subteam in applying the weighting criteria that the Subteam previously discussed and identified for use in assigning weights to Representative Species in the context of informing the process of how to identify core areas based on combining species landscape capability models into an optimized selection index. The matrix entries in this document are DRAFT and need Terrestrial and Wetland Subteam input to assign final entries and decide on final weights. (Note 8.5”x14” page size for printing the matrix) (Revised slightly 8/27/14 to add habitat acreage for several species)

Presentation: Core Area Prioritization and Network Design: UMass presentation on Core Area Prioritization and Network Design

Excel sheet: IUCN and Wildlife TRACS threats categories: For aiding in species weighting decisions.

August 28, 2014 Terrestrial/Wetlands Technical Subteam Meeting: Meeting notes and materials.

Surrogate Species Frequently Asked Questions: A collection of frequently asked questions that touch on landscape-scle conservation planning and the various intricacies around surrogate species.

SHC Framework & Basic Elements: This slide details biological planning, conservation design, conservation delivery, and monitoring elements of SHC.

Peer Review of Technical Guidance on Selecting Species for Landscape Scale Conservation: In 2012, the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (Service) committed to using Strategic Habitat Conservation (SHC) as an approach to address the challenges of the 21st century. As part of implementing that commitment, the Service distributed a version of the draft Technical Guidance on Selecting Species for Design of Landscape Scale Conservation (Technical Guidance) as a practical step in the biological planning component of the SHC approach. Five external peer reviewers have completed a formal, independent, external scientific peer review of the latest draft Technical Guidance. The panel was tasked specifically to review the scientific information in the Technical Guidance and its practical application to conservation management.

Fish and Wildlife News SHC Issue: In this special edition of Fish & Wildlife News, read how the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is putting Strategic Habitat Conservation (SHC) into practice. To ensure a bright future for fish and wildlife in the face of such widespread threats as drought, climate change and large-scale habitat fragmentation, the Service first endorsed SHC as the Service’s conservation approach in 2006. SHC relies on an adaptive management framework to inform decisions about where and how to deliver conservation efficiently with partners to achieve predicted biological outcomes.

Crosswalk of AppLCC Work Plan with Conservation Planning Frameworks: Crosswalk Presentation of the Appalachian LCC 5-Year Work Plan aligned with other Nationally Recognized Conservation Planning Frameworks. The tasks outlined in the 5-Year Work Plan align with both the FWS Strategic Habitat Conservation framework and the Northeast Regional Conservation framework.

Achieving Our Conservation Vision Using Strategic Habitat Conservation: The challenges facing conservation requires us to think about and do conservation differently. Unless we adopt a strategic approach to conservation, species and the habitats on which they depend will continue to be lost, regardless of the hard work and good intentions of dedicated professionals. Recognizing this fact, the Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) leadership adopted Strategic Habitat Conservation – a landscape-scale, collaboratively oriented framework –a decade ago.