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Environmental Flows from Water Withdrawals in the Marcellus Shale Region
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The rivers and streams of the Central Appalachians are home to more than 200 species of fish and other aquatic life. They also provide a reliable source of drinking water, recreational opportunities and associated economic benefits to people living in large cities and surrounding communities. Stream Impacts from Water Withdrawals in the Marcellus Shale Region
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Environmental Flow Analysis for the Marcellus Shale Region PDF
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A technical report submitted to the Appalachian Landscape Conservation Cooperative in completion of grant# 2012-03 - Final Report
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Stream Impacts from Water Withdrawals in the Marcellus Shale Region
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Phase 1 Report: Conservation Planning and Design for Appalachian LCC PDF
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Conservation planning is concerned with spatially identifying and prioritizing lands and waters important for functioning ecosystems and biodiversity. It is a science utilizing geographic information systems and large datasets to generate scenario-based maps of conservation potential. These scenarios can balance social, economic, and regulatory constraints with processes that occur over time and space. The planning process itself, as well as final products, helps practitioners prioritize where and when to take conservation action.
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Interactive Conservation Planning for the Appalachian LCC: Appalachian NatureScape
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NatureScape FAQ Fact Sheet
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NatureScape FAQ
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Landscape Dynamics Assessment Tool (LanDAT) Fact Sheet
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Landscape Dynamics Assessment Tool (LanDAT)
LanDAT delivers monitoring information in a way that helps
users interpret landscape-change and resilience
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Tennessee River Basin Network (TRB) Fact Sheet
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TRB Fact Sheet
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Ecosystem Services Benefits and Risks
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Given the rapid environmental change experienced and expected across the Appalachians, it will be crucial to understand the vulnerabilities of valued ecosystem services to drivers of large-scale change that may threaten their sustainability.
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The use of crowdsourced and georeferenced photography to aid in visual resource planning and conservation
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The advent of Web 2.0 and the growth of social media platforms have fostered an environment
for the documentation and sharing of landscape imagery. In addition to looking at the site scale,
using these big data allows for visual landscape assessment at the regional scale. The onset of Marcellus shale gas development in the state of Pennsylvania concurrent with the
rapidly widening availability of crowd-sourced citizen photography has provided a valuable
opportunity to study crowdsourced and georeferenced photography as an aid in visual resource
conservation design and planning. As Trombulak and Baldwin (2010) outline, the goals for this
work include identifying spatially explicit measures of change in the landscape, being able to
predict spatially explicit threats to the landscape, recognizing sites within the region that are
important or irreplaceable, and prioritizing areas for conservation action to address pressures
and preserve/conserve exceptional sites in the future.
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Integrating Cultural Resource Preservation at a Landscape Level
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Integrating Visual and Cultural Resource Evaluation and Impact Assessment for Landscape Conservation Design and Planning
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While there is an increased need for cultural resource conservation and management in
North America, there are few approaches that provide robust integration and combined assessment
of visual and cultural resources. Determining the scenic value of important views and identifying
potential risk for loss of that view are core components needed to design protection preserving
scenic quality and the cultural resources contributing to scenic value and overall sense of place.
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