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Heart of the Rockies Initiative has been diligently applying a Landscape Conservation Design process with full stakeholder engagement to articulate a stakeholder defined conservation vision for the High Divide landscape and to develop plans and strategies to achieve that vision. Our progress to-date includes: completion of the socio-economic data from Headwaters Economics, including a spatial build-out analysis of most of the counties in the project area. initiated the process to build cross-boundary habitat models with Idaho Dept. of Fish and Game and Montana Fish Wildlife and Parks that combine broad-scale habitat and connectivity models with high resolution GPS data identification, gathering and processing...
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The Heart of the Rockies Initiative (HOTR), on behalf of its 24 land conservation non-governmental partners, and its federal and state agency partners, seeks a second year of science support to incorporate emerging data on landscape integrity and connectivity, crucial habitats, and climate change response into downscaled data layers that can help the partners identify and validate their immediate and longer term conservation targets.
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The U.S. Northern Rocky Mountains support a large number of native wildlife species, and survival of these populations depends on connected landscapes to support current migration and dispersal, as well as future shifts in species’ ranges. However, habitat fragmentation and loss threaten these connections. Land and wildlife managers across the U.S. are faced with decisions focused on reducing risks, like those from habitat fragmentation, to wildlife, ecosystems, and landscapes. Establishing connections between natural landscapes is a frequently recommended strategy for these managers to help wildlife adapt to changing conditions. Working in partnership with state and federal resource managers and private land...
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Forests,
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Grasslands and Plains,
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adaptation strategies,
priority landscapes,
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Through this project the Heart of the Rockies Initiative, on behalf of its many High Divide Collaborative partners, has engaged a broad cross-section of regional stakeholders to articulate a commonly shared conservation vision and to develop and implement conservation strategies to achieve that vision for the High Divide landscape of Eastern Idaho/Southwestern Montana. We have deployed a Landscape Conservation Design (LCD) process to provide stakeholders with a collaborative planning framework. Within this framework of stakeholder led conservation design, we have been providing stakeholders with the science based information and tools needed to model current and future landscape conditions and evaluate landscape...
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