Landscape Partnership Resources Library
Enhancing the Climate Resilience of America’s Natural Resources
The President's Climate and Natural Resources Priority Agenda is the result of an interagency process to inventory and assess current policies, programs, and regulations related to climate change adaptation. The Agenda builds upon the robust climate change adaptation work already accomplished by Federal agencies and identifies significant actions moving forward. It specifically mentions how Federal agencies working to address ecosystem management issues through LCCs and other multi-stakeholder bodies will work with partners to select flagship geographic regions for which they will identify priority areas for conservation, restoration, or other investments to build resilience in vulnerable regions, enhance carbon storage capacity, and support management needs. Within 24 months, these agencies and their partners will have identified and mapped the initial list of priority areas within each of the selected geographic landscapes or regions.
Landscape Conservation Cooperatives: Building a Network to Help Fulfill Public Trust Obligations
The Landscape Conservation Cooperative (LCC) network (Network), comprised of 22 conservation partnerships spanning North America and U.S. Islands, is uniquely positioned to assist government members in fulfilling their public trust obligations to sustain natural and cultural resources for current and future generations by (a) ensuring inclusivity of broad stakeholder participation in conservation decision-making, and (b) building capacity for public trust to work in conservation, thus increasing the chance for successful and lasting conservation outcomes.
Cultural Resources GIS: Data Availability, Quality, and Management
By Deidre McCarthy, Cultural Resources GIS Facility, National Park Service.
Appalachian LCC and Conservation Frameworks
What are they and why do we need one? By Ken Elowe, USFWS.
Cultural Resources and Climate Change
Climate Change Response Program within the National Park Service.
National Heritage Areas in Brief
National Heritage Areas (NHAs) are designated by Congress as places where natural, cultural, and historic resources combine to form a cohesive, nationally important landscape. Through their resources, NHAs tell nationally important stories that celebrate our nation’s diverse heritage. NHAs are lived-in landscapes. Consequently, NHA entities collaborate with communities to determine how to make heritage relevant to local interests and needs.
National Heritage Areas within AppLCC Boundary
Listing all the Areas within the Appalachians.
Guidelines for Evaluating and Documenting Rural Historic Landscapes
Technical information on the the National Register of Historic Places: survey, evaluation, registration, and preservation of cultural resources
SC Meeting & Workshop Agenda
For Meeting on September 3-5, 2014 in Shepherdstown, WVA
Appalachian LCC Riparian Restoration in Action
A user-friendly tool to address management needs was funded by the Appalachian LCC to allow 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.
Document: Signing up for Databasin and the CT River Pilot Group
Instructions for gaining access to the private group for CT River Pilot team members to review GIS results.
Document: Notes from September 22, 2014 Core Team Meeting
Notes and annotations for slide presentation by Kevin McGarigal (UMass) on connectivity modeling for the CT River watershed.
Presentation: Species-based approach to Conservation Design
Presentation by Kevin McGarigal (UMass) on the species-based (as opposed to ecosystem-based) approach to the Connecticut River Watershed Landscape Conservation Design
Document: Terrestrial/Wetlands Subteam Update, 09-26-2014
Subteam update for September Core Team Meeting
Document: Key Decisions Document, Updated 09-26-2014
Running list of decisions made and to be made on the Connecticut River Pilot Designing Sustainable Landscapes Project
South Atlantic LCC Conservation Blueprint In Action
Earlier this year, the South Atlantic LCC released Version 1.0 of the Conservation Blueprint, a living plan describing the places and actions needed to meet shared conservation objectives in the face of future change.
North Pacific LCC Traditional Ecological Knowledge In Action
Beginning in 2012, a series of projects were funded to assist Tribes and First Nations with utilizing Traditional Ecological Knowledges (TEKs) to understand how climate change is affecting cultural and natural resources.
Great Northern LCC Arid Lands Initiative In Action
The vision for the Arid Land Initiative (ALI) is to bring together a diverse assemblage of public, private, and tribal interests working together to conserve and restore a viable, well connected system of the mid-Columbia basin’s arid lands and related freshwater habitats.
Great Basin LCC Sage Grouse In Action
Strategically Reducing Wildfire and Invasive Species Threats in Sagebrush Ecosystems.
Presentation: Connectivity Modeling - DSL 09-22-2014
Presentation to the CT River Core Team on connectivity modeling.
