Landscape Partnership Resources Library
Map: CT River Watershed - Terrestrial Core Areas
DRAFT Maps for illustrative purposes only. Side by side maps of the entire Connecticut River Watershed. Two methods of creating core terrestrial areas are shown: the continuously scaled draft selection index and the kernel-expansion method in which the top 5% of the index (at left) is used as seeds to grow core areas until 30% of the landscape is represented.
Map: CT River Watershed - Stream Temperature, Rare Systems
DRAFT Maps for illustrative purposes only. Side by side maps of the entire Connecticut River Watershed. Headwater stream temperature sensitivity (USGS) and Rare Natural Communities are shown. These are two of the spatial datasets to be incorporated into the overall selection index for the conservation design.
Map: CT River Watershed - Combined IEI, Resiliency
DRAFT Maps for illustrative purposes only. Side by side maps of the entire Connecticut River Watershed. The Index of Ecological Integrity (UMass) and Resilient Sites for Terrestrial Conservation (The Nature Conservancy) are combined to highlight areas where these two indices align or diverge in their relative assessment of the landscape. These are two of the spatial datasets to be incorporated into the overall selection index for the conservation design.
Map: CT River Watershed - IEI and Resiliency
DRAFT Maps for illustrative purposes only. Side by side maps of the entire Connecticut River Watershed. The Index of Ecological Integrity (UMass) and Resilient Sites for Terrestrial Conservation (The Nature Conservancy) are shown. These are two of the spatial datasets to be incorporated into the overall selection index for the conservation design.
Fact Sheet: AppLCC Overview
Today a range of monumental conservation challenges confronts the Appalachians. This includes the loss and fragmentation of natural habitats; disruptions in natural disturbance regimes; and expanding major land-use changes that are occurring on a grand scale. Climate change will further exacerbate these challenges. The magnitude of these landscape-level changes requires a shift from traditional local and single-species conservation approaches toward a more comprehensive scale to protect species, habitats, and ecosystems. The Appalachian Landscape Conservation Cooperative (LCC) serves as a catalyst for conservation collaboration by providing the tools, products, and data, resource managers and partners need to address the environmental threats that are beyond the scope of any one agency.
Document: Summary points from the USFWS Connecticut River Coordinator 1-15-14
Summary points from the USFWS Connecticut River Coordinator/Executive Assistant to the Connecticut River Atlantic Salmon Commission (CRASC), Ken Sprankle. Presented at LCC Connecticut River Pilot Meeting, 01-15-14.
Document: Action Items and Meeting Notes 01-15-2014
Action items from preliminary Connecticut River Pilot meeting and notes from the day.
Document: Representative species being modeled in CT River Watershed
At 2011 workshops in each of the three sub-regions, Service scientists and other experts selected a total of 87 terrestrial and wetland representative species. This table lists the representative species that occur in the Connecticut River Watershed for which habitat models are being developed through the Designing Sustainable Landscapes project, including the 13 species that are due to be completed first. The table includes associated habitats and examples of the species they are intended to represent.
Core Team Subgroup Members
Subteam assignments based on response to Feb 24, 2104 Core Team meeting request to “self-assign” to a subteam. Last updated 03-28-2014.
Document and Maps: Landscape Capability and Vulnerability Table and Maps (05-30-2014)
One document including one table and 21 maps (PDF). The table includes statistics for each representative species on the current landscape capability in the Northeast region and the Connecticut River watershed. Maps of landscape capability in 2010 are included for the following species: American woodcock, Black bear, Blackburnian warbler, Blackpoll warbler, Eastern meadowlark, Louisiana waterthrush, Marsh wren, Northern waterthrush, Wood thrush. Maps of landscape capability in 2080 and the change from 2010 to 2080 are included for some of those species.
Terrestial and Wetlands Subteam Update
Slides for the subteam update at the July Core Team meeting
Presentation: Aquatics - Landscape Conservation Design
Designing Sustainable Landscapes in the Northeast: A project of the NALCC and the Northeast Climate Science Center. Landscape Conservation Design, July 2014. Presentation for afternoon Aquatics Subteam breakout session.
Review of Key Concepts and Answers to Some Frequently Asked Questions
Designing Sustainable Landscapes in the Northeast: A project of the NALCC and the Northeast Climate Science Center. Landscape Conservation Design, June 2014. Updated presentation posted 7/28/2014.
Core Team Survey Results
Connecticut River Pilot Core Team Survey Results, as of July 25.
Ecosystem Goals, Objectives, and Conservation Design Tradeoffs - Terrestrial / Wetland Team (July 21, 2014)
Ecosystem Goals, Objectives, and Conservation Design Tradeoffs (draft document for consideration by the Terrestrial / Wetland team) This document was drafted to assist the terrestrial/wetland subteam in considering conservation design questions related to the number, size, and configuration of "core areas" of conservation priority, and how they relate to the overall goals for the watershed.
Notes from July 22, 2014 Subteam meeting
Notes from July 22, 2014 Subteam meeting (terrestrial/wetlands)
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Development space for Organizing the CC nested Site
Ecosystem Services and Environmental Threats Scope of Work
The "Assessment and Inventory of Ecosystem Services and Environmental Threats" research project will deliver an inventory of existing ecosystem services assessments, products, and decision-support or visualization tools conducted within the Appalachian LCC boundary. The inventory will document and assess the classification, methodology used, describe priority ecosystem services and how they were identified, and provide economic valuations if available. Research will also involve a regional survey and workshops within our boundary to assemble a list of high priority economic goods and services and non‐monetized values and benefits that are dependent on Appalachia’s natural assets while identifying the associated resource that support these services and benefits (such as intact forests, clean rivers, etc.). Finally a geo‐referenced assessment of the location of key ecosystem services that are linked to specific priority economic products or uses will be developed. This will include assembling datasets and generating visualization-base maps that depict relevant natural assets and identify locations of key products and issues. This information would then be used to produce a spatial interpretation of areas within Appalachia that serve critical social and environmental functions, as well as identify those that are highly vulnerable to losses associated with key ecosystem stressors.
Core Team Members
Current List of Core Team Members with contact information. This list may be updated or modified at any time
Presentation: Fish Occupancy & Stream Temperature
Fish Occupancy & Stream Temperature: Models & metrics for planning and management. NALCC Connecticut River Watershed Pilot Project, Aquatics Subgroup, June 27, 2014.
