1. Landscape Conservation Cooperatives
Avian Tools for Resource Planners Workshop
October 2016

2. What is an LCC?
Public-Private partnerships (federal, state, and local governments, Tribes and First Nations, non-governmental organizations, universities, and interested public and private organizations) who share a common need for scientific information and interest in conservation

3. Who’s Involved?
Great Basin LCC Partners

4. What do We do?
Develop shared, landscape-level, conservation objectives
Develop and provide integrated science-based natural and cultural resource information
Facilitate the exchange of applied science in the implementation of conservation strategies
Applied landscape-scale conservation planning & implementation through Landscape Conservation Design (LCD)
Develop appropriate linkages that connect LCCs to ensure an effective Network.

5. Integrated Science Avian Climate Response Models 588 Avian Species
Breeding (BBS) and Non (CBC) Models
3 climate scenarios
3 Time series (2020, 2050, 2080)
Maps:
GIS data:
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Science Publications:
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LCC network funded first continent-wide projections of avian response to climate change. Modeling for 588 bird species followed a rigorous evaluation of 3 modeling techniques (Maximum Entropy, Random Forest, and Boosted Regression Trees). Resulting climate envelope models generated under some IMPORTANT ASSUMPTIONS that should be understood before applying the models to planning.

6. Sharing Science
In support of GNLCC’s focus on ecological connectivity emphasis, the GNLCC Connectivity Atlas on Data Basin includes 98 spatial data sets describing connectivity. This resource will continue to expand as partners are engaged and targeted science and maps are developed.

7. Applied Science Can we conserve wetlands under a changing climate?
Mapping wetland hydrology across an ecoregion and developing climate adaptation recommendations
An example of synthetic, technology-enabled applied science relevant to bird conservation. Here, developing historic timelines of wetland status and trend across the Columbia Plateau. Analysis will link wetland trend to climate signal and then project future wetland status and trend with an eye toward management prioritization, adaptation and mitigation.
1) Map wetlands across the CP using multi-date satellite imagery
2) Reconstruct surface water hydrographs of each individual wetland
3) Forecast future changes in the hydroperiod of wetlands using
downscaled climate models for the 2080s.
4) Identify hotspots of management concern
5) Collaborate with land managers to identify climate-smart actions

8. Landscape Conservation Design:
an emerging paradigm
… a stakeholder-driven landscape conservation strategy to achieve a sustainable, resilient landscape. It is an iterative, collaborative, and holistic process that provides information, analytical tools, spatially explicit data and best management practices to reach jointly held landscape conservation goals among partners.
We could have a full day training and discussion on LCD. As a brief introduction, Landscape Conservation Design is intended to be a transparent, inter-disciplinary, participatory, construct within which managers can relate “local” conservation planning within a landscape context.

9. LCCs deliver applied science, landscape context & decision support