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Video Update: Aquatic Ecological Flows Research by Matthew Cimitile, last updated: Jul 22, 2025 06:27 PM: This presentation from Dr. Todd Walter of Cornell University provides an update to the Steering Committee on this Appalachian LCC funded research project. The Aquatic Ecological Flows project is providing a report assessing availability of hydrologic and ecological flow model(s) suitable for the region, an assessment of available ecological data to inform the ecological flow model(s), the application of the model(s) to anticipate how changes in stream flow will affect environmental conditions, and a report that forecasts changes in hydrology and associated biological responses to critical watersheds from different water resource development scenarios.

Final Report: Environmental Flow Analysis for the Marcellus Shale Region by Brian Buchanan, Ryan McManamay, Dan Auerbach, Daniel Fuka, M.T. Walter, last updated: Jul 22, 2025 06:25 PM

Background Materials: Classification and Mapping of Cave and Karst Resources Project by Matthew Cimitile, last updated: Jul 22, 2025 05:48 PM: The project will assemble georeferenced data, identify key intermediate (classification) data, and develop supporting science products that depict and map karst habitats and biotic resources across the Appalachian LCC based on the most appropriate method of classification to facilitate landscape-level planning objectives and address conservation and management needs.

Classification and Mapping of Cave and Karst Resources by Matthew Cimitile, last updated: Jul 22, 2025 05:48 PM: It has been recognized by the Appalachian LCC partnership that to develop and deliver landscape-level planning tools, it is essential to develop an Appalachian-wide map depicting where cave and karst habitats and resources occur across the landscape. For the past 18 months, researchers for the Appalachian LCC funded “Classification and Georeferencing Cave/Karst Resources across the Appalachian LCC” project have been gathering and analyzing data on caves and karst region wide. This work has produced a series of deliverables, including narratives, data tables, geospatial information layers, and a variety of maps. The maps and files provide a comprehensive overview of data availability for examining relationships between environmental factors and biological diversity and distribution within karst areas of the Appalachian LCC.

Video Update: Mapping and Classification of Cave and Karst Resources by Matthew Cimitile, last updated: Jul 22, 2025 05:23 PM: This presentation from Professor David Culver of American University provides an update to the Steering Committee on the Appalachian LCC funded research project that is assembling and identifying key location and classification data while developing products that depict and map cave and karst habitats and biological resources across the Appalachian LCC. Developing a consistent classification system and mapping for cave and karst habitats is a foundational need for these highly unique habitats.This project will develop cave and karst data and a georeferenced suite of products that are consistent in methodology to support larger-scale planning efforts, yet usable at scales that will support local resource decision-makers.

Research Subregion terrestrial species summary - Open Space Institute by Open Space Institute, last updated: Jul 22, 2025 04:52 PM: This spreadsheet provides results of terrestrial species vulnerability assessments in a smaller area of analysis in the southern portion of the Cumberland - Southern Appalachian subregion.

Research Subregion aquatic species summary - Open Space Institute by Open Space Institute, last updated: Jul 22, 2025 04:52 PM: This spreadsheet provides results of species vulnerability assessments in a smaller area of analysis in the southern portion of the Cumberland - Southern Appalachian subregion.

Project Review by Open Space Institute, last updated: Jul 22, 2025 04:52 PM: This document is a slide presentation summarizing results of the project as of October, 2011.

Research Region Terrestrial Species Summary - Open Space Institute by Open Space Institute, last updated: Jul 22, 2025 04:51 PM: This spreadsheet provides results of vulnerability assessments of terrestrial species conducted by the Open Space Institute.

File Collection: From the Final Narrative, Assessing Vulnerability of Species and Habitats to Large-scale Impacts by Sage Voorhees, last updated: Jul 22, 2025 04:50 PM

File Collection: Final Narrative Cave Karst by Rosanne Hessmiller, last updated: Jul 22, 2025 03:50 PM

Tennessee River Basin Network-Annual Meeting August 27-28 2025 by Web Editor, last updated: Jul 21, 2025 08:47 PM: Tennessee River Basin Network (TRBN) is hosting its Annual Meeting in Asheville, NC, on August 27-28.

Conservation Corridor July 2025 Newsletter by Web Editor, last updated: Jul 21, 2025 04:55 PM: Connecting science to conservation.

Landscape Partnership Newsletter-Happy New Year 2024! by Web Editor, last updated: Jul 18, 2025 02:25 PM: Happy New Year 2024 from the Landscape Partnership and WLFW

Science for productive forests: Understanding trends and projections by Web Editor, last updated: Jul 17, 2025 11:27 PM: Since the Forest Service’s inception, agency scientists have worked shoulder to shoulder with forest managers to support sustainable and efficient timber production. The Forest Service provides authoritative, nationwide data on the status and trends of forest resources and wood processing facilities.

Science for productive forests: Understanding trends and projections by Web Editor, last updated: Jul 17, 2025 11:27 PM: Since the Forest Service’s inception, agency scientists have worked shoulder to shoulder with forest managers to support sustainable and efficient timber production. The Forest Service provides authoritative, nationwide data on the status and trends of forest resources and wood processing facilities.

Wildlife Management Institute Outdoor News Bulletin July 2025 by Web Editor, last updated: Jul 17, 2025 11:15 PM: July 2025 | Volume 79 | Issue 7

Western Landscapes by Tab Manager, last updated: Jul 15, 2025 06:18 PM: The west includes a diversity of landscapes such as: Sagebrush Country; Great Plains Grasslands; and Central Grasslands and Savannas. Animal species include: Sage Grouse; Lesser Prairie-Chicken; and a variety of Migratory Big Game.

Eastern Deciduous Forests by Tab Manager, last updated: Jul 15, 2025 06:18 PM: In the northeastern U.S., partners are helping reinvigorate private forestry as a viable—and sustainable—industry. After decades of harvesting valuable trees from forests and leaving the rest, eastern deciduous forests are a monoculture of same-age or same-species trees, lacking both market value and healthy wildlife populations. WLFW “hit the reset button” by working with forest owners to establish young forest stands and restore economic value and abundant wildlife such as white tailed deer, turkey, ruffed grouse, and rarer species like the golden-winged warbler.