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New Recommendations Help Improve America’s Resilience to Climate Change
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This week, the White House released the recommendations of the President’s State, Local and Tribal Leaders Task Force on Climate Preparedness and Resilience. It also announced new tools and actions to help planners build healthy and resilient communities, including a web-based Climate Resilience Toolkit that provides simple access to federal tools that can help planners incorporate a changing climate into their decisions.
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Reviewing Existing Tools and Data on Hydrologic and Ecologic Flow Models
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The Aquatic Ecological Flows project reviewed existing tools and gathered available data within the project area on hydrologic and ecological flow models that would be suitable to use for the region.
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Reviewing the Literature on Freshwater Classification Frameworks
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A “Literature Review of Freshwater Classification Frameworks” by Principle Investigators at The Nature Conservancy and Oak Ridge National Laboratory reviewed aquatic and hydrological classifications and frameworks that have been developed at a variety of spatial scales and evaluates which could be applied for use by the Cooperative.
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Data Needs Assessment Research Delivers Suite of Conservation Planning Products
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The Data Needs Assessment research project was undertaken to review conservation planning tools, datasets, and methods to provide packages of products, data, and identified data gaps to improve conservation planning in the Appalachian LCC region.
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Reviewing Studies of Caves and Subterranean Biodiversity
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A status review of studies from the cave and karst classification and mapping research project examined an array of research regarding cave environments, cave/karst biodiversity, and previous techniques for mapping and modeling such ecosystems.
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Acquiring Information on the Climate Vulnerability of Appalachian Species and Habitats
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A new report out of the Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment research project addresses how the Cooperative should acquire information about the climate vulnerability of Appalachian species and habitats and share with its partners.
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Ensuring Climate Resilient Aquatic Communities
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Partners of the Appalachian LCC presented the “Riparian Restoration Climate Change Resilience Tool” to the aquatic management and research community at the Annual Eastern Brook Trout Joint Venture (EBTJV) meeting in early September.
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Steering Committee Advances the Cooperative’s Conservation Planning Process
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Appalachian LCC Steering Committee Members and natural and cultural resource experts met at the National Conservation Training Center on September 3-5 to advance the Cooperative’s landscape planning initiative.
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SARP Celebrates Decade of Aquatic Habitat Conservation
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A decade-long regional effort in the southeastern United States, led by the Southeast Aquatic Resources Partnership (SARP), to preserve globally significant aquatic species and the habitats they need to survive before they are lost forever have produced a sleuth of success stories.
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Secretary Jewell Announces New Wildlife and Climate Studies at the Northeast Climate Science Center
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Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell announced recently that Interior’s Northeast Climate Science Center (NE CSC) is awarding nearly $700,000 to universities and other partners for research to guide managers of parks, refuges and other cultural and natural resources in planning how to help species and ecosystems adapt to climate change.
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