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Appalachian LCC 2012 Annual Report: Landscape conservation is about bringing people, expertise, and resources together across a region to effectively respond to environmental challenges and attempt to create sustainable ecosystems. The Appalachian LCC has built a strong foundation to provide greater support toward landscape conservation that will achieve lasting benefit for the environment, wildlife, natural resources, and the people of the Appalachians. This report provides details of the organizational foundation of the AppLCC.

National LCC Data Management Working Group: This folder is for documents created by the National Data Management Working Group led by Josh Bradley (Arctic LCC)

NALCC Information Management Needs Assessment: This folder contains documents describing the process and outcomes of the North Atlantic LCC's effort to assess information management and needs

Data Sharing Agreement RFP 2013: This document describes the Data sharing and handling agreement that was disseminated with the first round of RFPs in 2013

Data Needs / Data Architecture - Scope of Work: This is the scope of work prepared by Dr. Rob Baldwin of Clemson University to conduct a study to assess the data needs related to the Appalachian LCC region, assemble available data sets and post to AppLCC cloud server, and to design the appropriate data architecture to support the landscape-level conservation planning and modeling to achieve the stated vision of the AppLCC Partnership. (Do not distribute draft.)

Data Needs Assessment Presentation: Slides from Rob Baldwin's Presentation on the Appalachian LCC Data Needs Assessment project.

Data Needs Assessment Project Update: Rob Baldwin of Clemson University gives an overview on data needs assessment and an update on the Data Needs Assessment Project being conducted by his lab at Clemson University.

Data Sharing and the AppLCC Web Portal: Powerpoint presentation that describes the vision and functionality of the AppLCC web portal in regards to sharing and visualizing data.

Work Plan Section B Goal 1: Landscape-level Data Sharing Strategy and Scalable Toolset Goal.

Mussels: Draft lists - aquatic macrofauna prepared by/courtesy of Bob Butler, 2013-04

Fish: Draft lists - aquatic macrofauna prepared by/courtesy of Bob Butler, 2013-04

Crayfish: Draft lists - aquatic macrofauna prepared by/courtesy of Bob Butler, 2013-04

Snails: Draft lists - aquatic macrofauna prepared by/courtesy of Bob Butler, 2013-04

Supporting Information from Other LCCs in NE and SE: AppLCC Staff have placed here information they gathered on approaches other LCCs in the NE and SE have taken to address RIs/SSs; including any RI or SS lists developed or drafted to date.

Priority Birds - AMJV revision underway March 2013: The Appalachian Mountain JV is beginning the process of updating the AMJV priority bird species list, which has not been updated since 2008. Their goal is to eventually create bird-habitat models for each priority species.

Resource Indicator Lists: Preliminary lists of Resource Indicators supplied to AppLCC by SALCC (and possibly others) for consideration during process of selecting RIs for AppLCC.

FWS Region-4 SALCC Natural Resource Indicators: The SALCC included the identification of "surrogate species" as part of its biological or natural resource indicators to support the planning and conservation at the landscape-level

FWS Region-5 NALCC Representative Species Approach: This folder contains background materials introducing the "representative species" approach Region-5 began prior to the formal adoption by the Service to promote a surrogate species approach (to inform landscape-level conservation.)