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ECO Health Report Cards by Rosanne Hessmiller, last updated: Jul 13, 2017 05:35 PM: 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 by Kelly Rene, Appalachian LCC Communication Intern, last updated: Jul 06, 2017 09:52 AM: 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 by Matthew Cimitile, last updated: Jul 05, 2017 02:44 PM: 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 by Paul Leonard, last updated: Jul 05, 2017 02:38 PM: 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 by Paul Leonard, last updated: Jul 05, 2017 02:37 PM: 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 by Paul Leonard, last updated: Jul 05, 2017 02:36 PM: 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 by Paul Leonard, last updated: Jul 05, 2017 02:35 PM: 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 by Paul Leonard, last updated: Jul 05, 2017 02:34 PM: 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

Regional Cores by Paul Leonard, last updated: Jul 05, 2017 02:34 PM: Broad areas of regional significance that have high internal landscape connectivity. Five cores were identified and mapped: 1) Shawnee-Peabody-Land between the Lakes; 2) Southern Blue Ride-Upper Tennessee River Basin; 3) Central Appalachian-Allegheny; 4) Heart's Content-Northwest Pennsylvania; 5) Delaware Water Gap-Catskills

Core Corridor Image by Matthew Cimitile, last updated: Jul 05, 2017 02:33 PM: For Interactive Conservation Planning and Design research project.

Conservation Design Elements Map by Paul Leonard, last updated: Jul 05, 2017 02:24 PM: 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.

Local Connectors by Paul Leonard, last updated: Jul 05, 2017 02:23 PM: 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 by Paul Leonard, last updated: Jul 05, 2017 02:21 PM: 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)