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Estuarine Fish Habitat Assessment and Winter Flounder Pilot Study
As part of a suite of aquatic habitat assessments and tools designed to support conservation efforts in the Northeast region, the environmental consulting firm Downstream Strategies developed predictive models for estuarine habitat in Narragansett Bay and Long Island Sound, using winter flounder as the focal species to pilot the approach. This study describes the development of a flexible modeling process that can help scientists better understand the distribution, status, threats, and relative abundance of resources in dynamic aquatic habitats.
Designing Sustainable Landscapes: Landscape Capability for Marsh Species
Hurricane Sandy Tidal Marsh Resiliency Workshop
Designing Sustainable Landscapes Index of Ecological Integrity
Presentation from the Hurricane Sandy Workshop December 7-8, 2014
Decision Support Framework for Sea-level Rise Impacts
Loss of land as a result of increasing sea level is among the gravest threats that climate change poses to coastal areas, and one of the most difficult to prepare for because different beaches, barriers, and marshes can respond to sea level rise in various dynamic ways. By distinguishing between areas in the Northeast that are likely to experience flooding as a result of sea-level rise and those that are likely to respond dynamically to sea-level rise by moving or changing, this report offers a resource to support coastal management decisions at both regional and local scales in the context of accelerated change.
Connect the Connecticut Landscape Conservation Design
What can we do today to ensure a sustainable future for the Connecticut River watershed? Connect the Connecticut is a collaborative effort to identify the best places to start: a network of priority lands and waters that can support wildlife and natural systems, with multiple pathways for migration, restoration, development, and conservation.
Coastal Resilience Resource List
An inventory of the work being undertaken by coastal Landscape Conservation Cooperatives and partner organizations to address coastal resilience issues in the Atlantic, Gulf Coast, and Caribbean regions, this new resource offers a one-stop shopping list to support growing collaboration in coastal resilience. The list includes completed, ongoing, and planned projects, reports, guidebooks, programs, online support tools, and papers, searchable by type, organization, or date.
Coastal and Adjacent Data Layers from Designing Sustainable Landscapes in the Northeast
Presentation Hurricane Sandy Tidal Marsh Resiliency Partner Meeting December, 2014
Chesapeake Bay Brook Trout Assessment
To effectively manage vital freshwater resources across large geographic areas, resource managers need the capacity to assess the status of aquatic species, their habitats, and the threats they face. This on-line decision support tool provides that capability for Eastern brook trout across the Chesapeake Bay watershed. The tool allows users to characterize current and and potential future aquatic conditions, target and prescribe restoration and conservation actions, set strategic priorities, evaluate management efforts, and support science-based sustainable management plans on behalf of brook trout and associated species. The tool is accompanied by a user-friendly summary report and a technical report providing details on how the tool was created.
Regional Fire Mapping
Regional fire maps generally offer improved resolution over national products and can provide a variety of information such as fire history, fire type, topography, fuels/habitat condition, and more. In the Southern region, the "SE FireMap" is an exciting new project under development - intended to serve as a cohesive system to track both prescribed fire and wildfire activity on public and private lands.
Land managers learn about duff moisture
Land managers learn about duff moisture during a wildland fire workshop in North Carolina. Credit: Jennifer Fawcett
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Raccoon Creek Stream Restoration for Imperiled Aquatic Species in lower Etowah River Drainage
This project restored stream areas of Raccoon Creek for imperiled aquatic species in lower Etowah River drainage, Georgia. This project has resulted in several new partnerships, including a collaborative planning workshop for Paulding County held by SARP and the Southeast Watershed Forum. (Photo: Map of Raccoon Creek Watershed)
Beach and Tidal Habitat Inventories
This collection of reports, databases, and data layers offers a birds-eye view of sandy beach and tidal inlet habitats within the U.S. Atlantic Coast breeding range of the endangered piping plover based on imagery from Google Earth, Google Maps, state agencies, municipalities, and private organizations. By comparing the location, status, and condition of potential plover breeding grounds from Maine to North Carolina during three distinct time periods -- before Hurricane Sandy, immediately after the storm, and three years after post-storm recovery efforts -- these inventories provide a habitat baseline that can help resource managers plan for future change.
Prescribed Burning Multimedia
We'll be storing images and non-training videos here to be shared. Any content posted here is free from copyright infringement concerns and can be shared for educational or other purposes including to create brochures, slide presentations, webinars, etc. Training videos can be found under the Training tab on Wildland Fire.
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Re: General Scoping Recommendations/Discussion
Although I couldn't attend the meeting, I did watch the entirety of the presentation.  I wanted to thank Joe and Eli for such a great presentation!  I also wanted to provide some more questions that I have after watching the presentation and the follow-up question/answer session: 1) Would it be helpful to start classifying the fire detections by the ecosystem type in which they encompass?  If you're doing the entire SE, you could consider using LANDFIRE or NLCD.  Ultimately you would want to decide how narrowly that you want to subdivide vegetation into categories.  If you're just interested in doing this for Florida, you could consider FNAI. The reason that I make this suggestion, is because you'll probably find that some vegetation types are accurately defined by remote products (e.g. BA), while others are not.  In my experience, the upland vegetation types are generally easier to map fire than the wetlands.  Inherent problems with changes in water levels affect remote sensing products. 2) I think that it might make sense to subdivide the area of interests by equally sized grids or property boundaries to determine where the remote sensing products work and where they don't.  I really liked Todd's suggestion about considering managed areas like TTRS as units in which you could then monitor for fire activity. 3) If it's determined that some kind of burn severity products are required as part of the output, you should consider converting differenced Normalized Burned Ratio (dNBR) products to Composite Burn Index.  CBI data was been compiled for the conterminous U.S. and Sean Parks has subsequently created a Google Earth Engine workflow to use Random Forest to calculate CBI (see https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/10/6/879/htm).  Additionally I have been developing regression equations based on different scales/vegetation products that could be used.  These equations could be implemented in GEE as well and I have already implemented them to convert MTBS dNBR products to CBI. 4) The "scale" of the project really needs to be taken into account.  What is the minimum mapping unit?  At what scale is accuracy assessed?  All of the remote sensing products that are being assessed inherently have different scales at which they're accurate.  Product scale and accuracy need to be taken into account for the scoping of this project. 5) At some point in the scoping it might be nice to determine what the options are for processing and subsequently serving data.  Admittedly, these would just be suggestions.  Whoever ends up subsequently doing the work would decide how to proceed.  At least there would be some already researched options available. 6) Could past fire perimeters somehow be used to help map future?  Many areas in the Southeast are burned in specific burn units on a specific time interval (e.g. 2 years).  If we use a product like the BA product to intersect where areas burn over a specific amount of time, it might be possible to estimate where these burns typically occur and on what interval.  You could then "forecast" where burns will likely happen.  These forecasts could be potentially tied to specific burn permits so you know essentially "who burns where". 7) What steps could be taken to get private landowners "buy in" for potentially participating in the tracking of burned areas?  Maybe it's framed like "if we monitor burned areas we can help determine where hazards might exist for your property".  Or, it could be framed as "we produce these products that can help you with your management of your lands".  Some landowners will likely have potential issues with being monitored.  But, if you can frame it as "we're giving you something that you can use to better manage your lands" it might help. 8) At the end of the day the data "products" that could be produced should be examined.  Depending on your audience, you'll want to range between simple (e.g. summaries, pdfs, kmzs) and actual geospatial data products.  If these products are planned well for different users, you might get more buy-in from private land-owners.  I really think that TTRS is positioned well to be able to "sell" the idea of how this work can lead to better management outcomes, while maintaining landowner privacy.