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Session III - What’s changed that may offer New Opportunities

Panel "lighting round" summary of major initiatives or agency programmatic directions

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Session II - Priories Discussion - Regional Work Group

discussion focus on at the work plan element / partnership outcome level

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Session I - the 'good' the 'bad' the 'ugly'

a review of the LCC partnership experience

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(working) Results Framework

draft for discussions (2016) to develop goals & objectives for 2nd 5-Year Work Plan

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Goals and Objectives of Next 5-Year Work Plan

Goals and Objectives of Next 5-Year Work Plan

2nd 5-Year Plan of the AppLCC. Draft Goals and Objectives (from the 2016-17 Report)

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Mission & 2016-17 Highlights

from (draft 2016-17 Report)

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Our Investments - Our Journey

from (draft 2016-17 Report Appendix 4a)

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Letter from the AppLCC Leadership (draft)

(draft content: 2016-17 Report) file: 0

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Landscape-scale conservation design across biotic realms - sequential integration of aquatic and terrestrial landscapes

Landscape-scale conservation design across biotic realms - sequential integration of aquatic and terrestrial landscapes

Systematic conservation planning has been used extensively throughout the world to identify important areas for maintaining biodiversity and functional ecosystems, and is well suited to address large-scale biodiversity conservation challenges of the twenty-first century. Systematic planning is necessary to bridge implementation, scale, and data gaps in a collaborative effort that recognizes competing land uses. Here, we developed a conservation planning process to identify and unify conservation priorities around the central and southern Appalachian Mountains as part of the Appalachian Landscape Conservation Cooperative (App LCC). Through a participatory framework and sequential, cross-realm integration in spatial optimization modeling we highlight lands and waters that together achieve joint conservation goals from LCC partners for the least cost. This process was driven by a synthesis of 26 multi-scaled conservation targets and optimized for simultaneous representation inside the program Marxan to account for roughly 25% of the LCC geography. We identify five conservation design elements covering critical ecological processes and patterns including interconnected regions as well as the broad landscapes between them. Elements were then subjected to a cumulative threats index for possible prioritization. The evaluation of these elements supports.

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