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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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Establishing connections among natural landscapes is the most frequently recommended strategy for adapting management of natural resources in response to climate change. The U.S. Northern Rockies still support a full suite of native wildlife, and survival of these populations depends on connected landscapes. Connected landscapes support current migration and dispersal as well as future shifts in species ranges that will be necessary for species to adapt to our changing climate. Working in partnership with state and federal resource managers and private land trusts, we sought to: 1) understand how future climate change may alter habitat composition of landscapes expected to serve as important connections for wildlife,...
Categories: Data;
Tags: Alpine,
Connectivity,
Environment and Conservation,
Forestry,
Forests, All tags...
Grasslands and Plains,
Idaho,
Land Use Change,
Landscapes,
Mammals,
Montana,
North Central CASC,
Rocky Mountains,
USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC),
United States,
Wildlife Biology,
Wildlife and Plants,
Wyoming,
climate change,
environment,
natural resource management, Fewer tags
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This group allows access to Heart of the Rockies Initiative conservation partners to regional datasets in connectivity, habitat, climate change, in the HOTR service area.
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Establishing connections among natural landscapes is the most frequently recommended strategy for adapting management of natural resources in response to climate change. The U.S. Northern Rockies still support a full suite of native wildlife, and survival of these populations depends on connected landscapes. Connected landscapes support current migration and dispersal as well as future shifts in species ranges that will be necessary for species to adapt to our changing climate. Working in partnership with state and federal resource managers and private land trusts, we sought to: understand how future climate change may alter habitat composition of landscapes expected to serve as important connections for wildlife,...
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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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