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FY 2018 Brook Trout Conservation Funding Opportunity: The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Eastern Brook Trout Joint Venture are jointly requesting project proposals that are focused on Brook Trout conservation actions. Project applications must be submitted no later than 5:00 p.m. Eastern time on September 22, 2017.

ECO Health Report Cards: Our environmental report cards synthesize data from scientists and volunteers and convert it into an image-rich format that is easily accessible to a wide audience. Report cards also tap into a powerful human motivator: peer pressure. Civic leaders and community members can compare their grades with their neighbors, and we have learned that these comparisons lead to a desire for better environmental outcomes in their own backyard. For nearly two decades our team has worked both at the local level with river protection groups, and developed assessments of iconic ecosystems such as the Chesapeake Bay (USA) and the Great Barrier Reef (Australia). These environmental report cards have been used to catalyze improvements in ecosystem health, guide restoration efforts, and stimulate relevant research.

Land Trusts: Bringing Landscape-Scale Resources to Local Communities: Work on a landscape scale can mean a number of things, but the main purpose is to create a network of people that share data and information, technology and tools, and lessons learned along the way to enhance conservation collaboration and make a greater impact on the landscape.

NatureScape Map: Map shows integration of key aquatic connectivity areas with terrestrial significant habitats throughout the Appalachians to guide conservation planning and decision making.

Conservation Design Elements Map: Depiction of conservation design for the Appalachian LCC with all five of the design elements - regional cores, local cores, regional linkages, valley and ridge linkages, and local build outs - combined.

Other Important Areas: Smaller, isolated areas that are locally significant. Identified in two primary ways: (1) build outs acted as buffers around existing protected areas suggesting that many conservation values around the protected area are not fully protected; and (2) small areas that had unique conservation value regionally but are under no current protection. Thirty-six of these areas were identified.

Local Connectors: Bridging valley and ridge topography and connecting mountainous regions with low plateaus in an east-west orientation. Four linkages were identified and mapped: 1) Big South Fork-Cumberland River; 2) Cumberland-Interior Low Plateau; 3) Ohio River; 4) Flint Creek-Plateau Escarpment

Regional Connectors: Regional-scale corridors that connect large cores. Three were identified and mapped: 1) Northern Cumberland-Blue Ridge (connects South Blue Ridge to Central Appalachian core to the north); 2) Southern Cumberland-Blue Ridge (connects Southern Blue Ridge to Central Appalachian Core to south); 3) Northern Sandstone Ridges (connect Central Appalachian-Allegheny Regional core to Delaware Water Gap-Catskills)

Local Cores: Areas that are locally significant due to irreplaceability and have high internal local connectivity. Eight areas were identified and mapped: 1) Cumberland Plateau-Chattanooga; 2) Daniel Boone; 3) Nashville Basin; 4) Hoosier-Interior Low Plateau; 5) Mammoth Cave-Campbellsville-Chickamauga; 6) Cumberland Gap-Big South Fork; 7) Southern Finger Lakes-Allegheny Plateau; 8) Lower Tennessee-Bankhead-Wheeler