1. Conservation blueprint
Overview, uses, and next steps

2. Conservation blueprints
A quick overview

3. What does the SALCC do?
Mission: Create a shared blueprint for landscape conservation actions that sustain natural and cultural resources

4. Conservation blueprints
The idea is not new

5. Conservation blueprints
The idea is not new
Florida’s CLIP
SWAPs
TNC ecoregional assessments
EPA National Ecological Framework
SAFMC Essential Fish Habitat

6. Conservation blueprints

7. TNC definition of blueprint
“ Conservation Blueprint
The primary product of this ecoregional assessment can be considered a conservation blueprint—a vision for conservation success—to guide the basin’s public land managers, land and water conservation organizations, private landowners, and others in conserving natural diversity within this ecoregion.”

8. TNC blueprint steps
1. Select indicators

9. TNC blueprint steps
1. Select indicators
2. Set targets for indicators

10. TNC blueprint steps 1. Select indicators 2. Set targets for indicators
3. Assess viability of indicator occurrences

11. TNC blueprint steps 1. Select indicators 2. Set targets for indicators
3. Assess viability of indicator occurrences
4. Identify and design a portfolio of areas of biological significance

12. TNC blueprint steps 1. Select indicators 2. Set targets for indicators
3. Assess viability of indicator occurrences
4. Identify and design a portfolio of areas of biological significance
5. Identify threats to indicators at conservation areas and identify action steps to conserve the portfolio

13. So what’s different from past efforts?

14. So what’s different from past efforts?
Planning for the cooperative not any one organization

15. So what’s different from past efforts?
Planning for the cooperative not any one organization
This is an adaptation strategy (incorporating climate change, urban growth, and other future changes)

16. March 11 letter to President Obama
“In the future, fish and wildlife will need a network of interconnected habitats and migration corridors to survive and thrive”
American Fisheries Society
American Fly Fishing Trade Association
Bass Anglers Sportsmen Society
Ducks Unlimited
Izaak Walton League of America
Quail Forever
Pheasants Forever
Trout Unlimited
Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership
Wildlife Management Institute

17. So what’s different from past efforts?
Planning for the cooperative not any one organization
This is an adaptation strategy (incorporating climate change, urban growth, and other future changes)
Bigger scope and scale

18. So what’s different from past efforts?
Planning for the cooperative not any one organization
This is an adaptation strategy (incorporating climate change, urban growth, and other future changes)
Bigger scope and scale
New technology means blueprint will be more efficient and more integrated across resources

19. Integrated planning
A blueprint for integrated terrestrial, freshwater, and marine conservation in Cook Inlet Basin, AK

20. Cook Inlet basin 9.4 million acres Lots of people (for AK)
Notable for populations of top predators, migratory waterfowl, marine mammals, and salmon

21. Cook Inlet basin “Rapid” population growth
Tourism, timber, and fishing are major industries
Ownership is a mix of state (51%), private (34%), and federal (15%) lands

22. Some of their Indicators and targets
Indicator: Number of Lynx, Target: Viable population
Indicator: Acres of black spruce and open peatland Target: 30% of historic area protected
Indicator: Acres of protected shorebird aggregation areas Target: 30% of known areas protected

23. Working on version 2.0
Version 1.0 (2003) was not selective enough

24. Working on version 2.0 Version 1.0 (2003) was not selective enough
Working now on being more selective and efficient

25. Integrated planning
We usually “stack” layers

26. Integrated planning We usually “stack” layers
This is easier but not as efficient

27. Integrated planning We usually “stack” layers
This is easier but not as efficient
More integration = more bang for the buck

28. Not integrated
Separate planning
3.5 million acres included

29. Integrated
Integrated planning
Same result with only 2.5 million acres

30. Why does this happen?
Imagine we’re planning where to get lunch…

31. Let’s go to Larry’s Subs
Why does this happen?
Imagine we’re planning where to get lunch…
Let’s go to Larry’s Subs
Let’s go to Soups R Us
Let’s go to Salad Land

32. Why does this happen?
What about Maurine’s subs, soups, and sandwiches?
I get a good sub
I get a good soup
I get a good salad

33. Implementation
Examples of how the SALCC blueprint could be used

34. So what’s different from past efforts?
Planning for the cooperative not any one organization
This is an adaptation strategy (incorporating climate change, urban growth, and other future changes)
Bigger scope and scale
New technology means blueprint will be more efficient and more integrated across resources

35. Case 1: Finding the best places to work together

36. Case 2: Bringing in new conservation dollars

37. Case 3: Guiding infrastructure development

38. Case 4: Creating incentives as an alternative to regulation

39. Case 5: Bringing landscape perspectives for local adaptation efforts (how do I fit in?)
Climate adaptation strategies are landscape scale!
Biodiversity management in the face of climate change: A review of 22 years of recommendations

40. Case 6: Responding to major disasters

41. Making it happen
Developing the SALCC blueprint

42. Three steps to a blueprint
Indicators and targets

43. Three steps to a blueprint
Indicators and targets
What happens to indicators if we do nothing (South Atlantic 2050)

44. Three steps to a blueprint
Indicators and targets
What happens to indicators if we do nothing (South Atlantic 2050)
Future landscape models complete
Models done for most indicators

45. Three steps to a blueprint
Indicators and targets
What happens to indicators if we do nothing (South Atlantic 2050)
Spatially explicit map of how we’re going to keep those indicators “in the green”

46. Three steps to a blueprint
Indicators and targets
What happens to indicators if we do nothing (South Atlantic 2050)
Spatially explicit map of how we’re going to keep those indicators “in the green”
Progress from OCS project but will likely be version 2.0

47. Three steps to a blueprint
Indicators and targets
What happens to indicators if we do nothing (South Atlantic 2050)
Spatially explicit map of how we’re going to keep those indicators “in the green”
Progress from OCS project but will likely be version 2.0
There are a few other good options to get a version 1.0

48. Conservation design team
Mark Anderson TNC
Bob Cooper UGA
Mary Conley TNC
Barry Grand USGS
Nate Nibbelink UGA
Jim Fox UNC
Will Allen Conservation Fund
Rob Baldwin Clemson