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Planning Team Discussion Materials: Appalachian Conservation Partners Meeting - Dec 2017

Letter from the AppLCC Leadership (draft): (draft content: 2016-17 Report) file: 0

Landscape-scale conservation design across biotic realms - sequential integration of aquatic and terrestrial landscapes: Systematic conservation planning has been used extensively throughout the world to identify important areas for maintaining biodiversity and functional ecosystems, and is well suited to address large-scale biodiversity conservation challenges of the twenty-first century. Systematic planning is necessary to bridge implementation, scale, and data gaps in a collaborative effort that recognizes competing land uses. Here, we developed a conservation planning process to identify and unify conservation priorities around the central and southern Appalachian Mountains as part of the Appalachian Landscape Conservation Cooperative (App LCC). Through a participatory framework and sequential, cross-realm integration in spatial optimization modeling we highlight lands and waters that together achieve joint conservation goals from LCC partners for the least cost. This process was driven by a synthesis of 26 multi-scaled conservation targets and optimized for simultaneous representation inside the program Marxan to account for roughly 25% of the LCC geography. We identify five conservation design elements covering critical ecological processes and patterns including interconnected regions as well as the broad landscapes between them. Elements were then subjected to a cumulative threats index for possible prioritization. The evaluation of these elements supports.

[Poster] Work of the AppLCC: Poster delivered at the Nov 2017 National Forum of Landscape Practitioners, NCTC, Shepherdstown WV.

NatureScape Fact Sheet: General introduction to the Landscape Conservation Design (LCD2) of the Appalachian Region based on the research of Paul Leonard et al., Clemson Unviersity.

Assessing Future Energy Development Across the Appalachians: Assessing Future Energy Development across the Appalachian LCC used models that combined data on energy development trends and identified where these may intersect with important natural resource and ecosystem services to give a more comprehensive picture of what potential energy development could look like in the Appalachians. Ultimately this information is intended to support dialogue and conservation on how to effectively avoid, minimize, and offset impacts from energy development to important natural areas and the valuable services they provide.

Resolution of Support for the Clinch River Valley Initiative 2012: Clinch Powell

Landscape-scale conservation design across biotic realms - sequential integration of aquatic and terrestrial landscapes: Systematic conservation planning has been used extensively throughout the world to identify important areas for maintaining biodiversity and functional ecosystems, and is well suited to address large-scale biodiversity conservation challenges of the twenty-first century. Systematic planning is necessary to bridge implementation, scale, and data gaps in a collaborative effort that recognizes competing land uses. Here, we developed a conservation planning process to identify and unify conservation priorities around the central and southern Appalachian Mountains as part of the Appalachian Landscape Conservation Cooperative (App LCC). Through a participatory framework and sequential, cross-realm integration in spatial optimization modeling we highlight lands and waters that together achieve joint conservation goals from LCC partners for the least cost. This process was driven by a synthesis of 26 multi-scaled conservation targets and optimized for simultaneous representation inside the program Marxan to account for roughly 25% of the LCC geography. We identify five conservation design elements covering critical ecological processes and patterns including interconnected regions as well as the broad landscapes between them. Elements were then subjected to a cumulative threats index for possible prioritization. The evaluation of these elements supports

Stream Classification System for the Appalachians: funded research: TNC-Boston/NE

Stream Impacts from Water Withdrawals in the Marcellus Shale Region: funded research: Cornell University

Classifi cation and Mapping of Cave and Karst Resources: funded research: AmU, USGS, FL State University

Assessing Future Energy Development Across the Appalachian Region: funded research: TNC-VA Chapter

Assessing Vulnerability of Species and Habitats to Large-scale Impacts: funded research: NatureServe

Conservation and Inspiration in the Tennessee River Basin: An article from the Tennessee River Basin Network's third annual meeting, highlighting the work being done in one of America's most biologically diverse watersheds.