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Presentation: LCC Framework for Landscape Conservation Design: Presentation on LCC Framework for Landscape Conservation Design for Connecticut River Landscape Conservation Design Pilot Core Team meeting on February 24, 2014

Presentation: Landscape Conservation Design in the Connecticut River Watershed and Northeast Region: Presentation on Landscape Conservation Design in the Connecticut River Watershed and Northeast Region given by Scott Schwenk at Connecticut River Pilot Core Team meeting on February 24, 2014.

Document: Ecosystem Goals, Objectives, and Tradeoffs (07-21-2014): Overview provided by Scott Schwenk on the Ecosystem goal, general and specific objectives, and tradeoffs related to specific decisions about the conservation design strategy.

Pricing the Priceless: Ecosystem Services Science at USGS: Nature's products and services are essential not only to the ecosystems that provide them, but also to the people and societies built on them. Factoring their value into cost-benefit analyses is an important part of smart planning. But that raises a new question—how to assign value to ecosystem services?

FY2015 Brook Trout Conservation Funding Opportunity: The Eastern Brook Trout Joint Venture (EBTJV) is seeking project proposals focused on conserving the habitats needed to support healthy and productive wild Brook Trout populations.

Map: CT River Watershed - Terrestrial and Aquatic Cores: DRAFT Maps for illustrative purposes only. Side by side maps of the entire Connecticut River Watershed. These maps show (1) potential terrestrial cores contrasting the slicing vs. the kernel approach and (2) a preliminary example of how the aquatic cores might look. Both are highly subject to change.

Map: CT River Watershed - Terrestrial Core Areas: DRAFT Maps for illustrative purposes only. Side by side maps of the entire Connecticut River Watershed. Two methods of creating core terrestrial areas are shown: the continuously scaled draft selection index and the kernel-expansion method in which the top 5% of the index (at left) is used as seeds to grow core areas until 30% of the landscape is represented.

Map: CT River Watershed - Stream Temperature, Rare Systems: DRAFT Maps for illustrative purposes only. Side by side maps of the entire Connecticut River Watershed. Headwater stream temperature sensitivity (USGS) and Rare Natural Communities are shown. These are two of the spatial datasets to be incorporated into the overall selection index for the conservation design.

Map: CT River Watershed - Combined IEI, Resiliency: DRAFT Maps for illustrative purposes only. Side by side maps of the entire Connecticut River Watershed. The Index of Ecological Integrity (UMass) and Resilient Sites for Terrestrial Conservation (The Nature Conservancy) are combined to highlight areas where these two indices align or diverge in their relative assessment of the landscape. These are two of the spatial datasets to be incorporated into the overall selection index for the conservation design.

Map: CT River Watershed - IEI and Resiliency: DRAFT Maps for illustrative purposes only. Side by side maps of the entire Connecticut River Watershed. The Index of Ecological Integrity (UMass) and Resilient Sites for Terrestrial Conservation (The Nature Conservancy) are shown. These are two of the spatial datasets to be incorporated into the overall selection index for the conservation design.

Webinar: Audio and Video from July Core Team Meeting: Recording of the morning Connecticut River Pilot Core Team Meeting on July 25, 2014.

Veni, George: Cave and karst hydrogeologist, expertise in groundwater quality and supply delineation and protection, land management including sinkhole formation, and associated management and protection of threatened and endangered species in karst.

BioClimate: Periodic News from the National Climate Change and Wildlife Science Center (NCCWSC) and the DOI Climate Science Centers (CSCs)

The Important Mission of USFWS: Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell shares her thoughts on “What makes the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service different from other bureaus with the Department of the Interior?” She also has a special message for Service employees.

Presentation: Connecticut River Pilot - Goals & Objectives: Draft ideas for discussion at meeting on February 24, 2014

Revised criteria for prioritizing species (06-27-2014): Criteria for Prioritizing Habitat for Representative Wildlife Species in Conservation Design for the Connecticut River Watershed. Updated from the 05-30-2014 version.

Document: Summary points from the USFWS Connecticut River Coordinator 1-15-14: Summary points from the USFWS Connecticut River Coordinator/Executive Assistant to the Connecticut River Atlantic Salmon Commission (CRASC), Ken Sprankle. Presented at LCC Connecticut River Pilot Meeting, 01-15-14.

Document: Action Items and Meeting Notes 01-15-2014: Action items from preliminary Connecticut River Pilot meeting and notes from the day.