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Project Opportunity Ranks Discussion: Discussing funding and leverage opportunities around project opportunities.

Project Opportunity Ranks: Steering Committee member rankings of project opportunities in near future.

Appalachian LCC Communications Presentation: Overview of communications around the release of the energy assessment tool, riparian restoration tool, Tennessee River Basin partnership, and other LCC initiatives.

Appalachian LCC Budget Report: Report about Appalachian LCC budget, procurement policy, transparency, and conflict of interest.

Priority Resources and Species: Next Phase: Presentation to facilitate discussion around how to identify priority resources and species and what to implement in the next phase of conservation design project.

Appalachian LCC Conservation Design: Phase 1: An overview of how this research developed a process of selecting priority resources by using LCC technical input to build a group of candidate priority resources and include them in a spatial modeling process to produce a draft landscape‐scale conservation design; identified additional priority resources to include in future iterations of the conservation design; and built and acquired datasets, derived data modeling strategies needed to achieve first two objectives.

Overview of All Appalachian LCC Funded Projects: Detailed review of the deliverables from our funded projects and how they address either taking action now, making near-term decisions, or achieving longer-term mandates.

Tennessee River Basin Partnership Overview: An overview on the Tennessee River Basin as a priority landscape for the Appalachian LCC.

Tennessee Valley Authority Watershed Protection and Improvement: This presentation details how TVA is providing adequate data for sound decision-making, identifying and build partnerships, partnering to prioritize watersheds and projects, and implementing projects to protect water quality and biodiversity.

Classification of Cave/Karst Resources across the Appalachians: This project assembled georeferenced data, identified key intermediate (classification) data,and developed supporting science products that depict and map karst habitats and biotic resources across the Appalachian LCC based on the most appropriate method of classification to facilitate landscape-level planning objectives and address conservation and management needs.

Future Energy Development across the Appalachian Region: Overview of the Appalachian LCC funded project that uses models that combine data on energy development trends and identifies where these may intersect with important natural resource and ecosystem services to give a more comprehensive picture of what potential energy development could look like in the Appalachians.

State of the Appalachian LCC Overview: AppLCC Coordinator Cal DuBrock details the current state of the Appalachian LCC as a network of public‐private partnerships that is providing shared science to ensure the sustainability of the Appalachians land, water, wildlife and cultural resources.”

Executive Committee Agenda: For Appalachian LCC Steering Committee Meeting that took place July 13-15, 2014.

Steering Committee Meeting Agenda: Agenda for the Appalachian LCC Steering Committee Meeting that took place July 13-15 in Shepherdstown, West Virginia.

July 13-15, 2015 Appalachian LCC Steering Committee Meeting: For 2015 meeting at the National Conservation Training Center in Shepherdstown, West Virginia.

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.

Shale Gas, Wind and Water: Assessing the Potential Cumulative Impacts of Energy Development on Ecosystem Services within the Marcellus Play: A Nature Conservancy study funded by the Robertson Foundation and published by the open-access Public Library of Science (PLoS) in January 2014, assessed potential impacts of future energy development on water resources in the Marcellus play region.