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2018 Local Solutions: Eastern Climate Preparedness Conference: This conference will cover a range of climate preparedness and resiliency issues such as: sea level rise, urban heat, and both coastal and inland flooding issues. The conference is geared for small government planners and decision-makers striving to create healthy resilient communities with how to better handle severe weather and climate impacts. This conference guides local government planners on how to make climate resilience an aspect of their daily operations.

American Fisheries Society Newsletter: The AFS recently put out their newsletter for the month of October. See what the headlines are over at the American Fisheries Society...

Fall/Winter Invasive Plant Training Sessions: Please join the Blue Ridge PRISM to learn how to identify and manage invasive plant species during the fall and winter seasons. Training will consist of classroom and field portions and will emphasize management practices to implement during the fall and winter.

Fall/Winter Invasive Plant Training Sessions: Please join the Blue Ridge PRISM to learn how to identify and manage invasive plant species during the fall and winter seasons. Training will consist of classroom and field portions and will emphasize management practices to implement during the fall and winter.

Development of a Spatially Explicit Surface Coal Mining Predictive Model: The goal of this project was to create a spatially explicit 1km2 grid cell model for the Appalachian Landscape Conservation Cooperative (Figure 1) predicting where surface coal mining is likely to occur in in a projected future time period, under two different scenarios. To accomplish this goal we combined GIS spatial analysis, a Random Forests predictive model, and future mining buildout scenarios. This report provides a detailed methodology of our approach and discussion of our results.

Resources Available to Appalachian Conservation Partners: Introduction to the suite of science information resources (data, maps, decision-support and networking tools) available to enhance the work of the Appalachian Conservation Partner Community.

Meeting Agenda: Find here the agenda for the Sept 26th meeting at Land Between the Lakes.

Training Materials to Download: Please find here a folder to download prior to the meeting.

Riparian Restoration to Promote Climate Change Resilience in Eastern U.S. Streams: Provision of shade via riparian restoration is a well-established management adaptation strategy to mitigate against temperature increases in streams. Effective use of this strategy depends upon accurately identifying vulnerable, unforested riparian areas in priority coldwater stream habitats. An innovative riparian planting and restoration decision support tool is now available to the conservation community. This user-friendly tool allows managers and decision-makers to rapidly identify and prioritize areas along the banks of rivers, streams, and lakes for restoration, making these ecosystems more resilient to disturbance and future changes in climate.