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The Crown Managers Partnership (CMP) is coordinating the Crown of the Continent Landscape Conservation Design (LCD) process to help land managers collectively achieve landscape-scale ecological objectives while working within agency and organizational jurisdictions and mandates. By bringing stakeholders together, the LCD provides the opportunity for land managers to prioritize and coordinate actions on the ground. Representing 42 stakeholder entities across 31,000 sq km (50,500 mi2) in Montana, Alberta, and British Columbia, we are developing spatial designs for 15 priority landscape features. Spatial design integrates stakeholder and subject matter expert knowledge and objectives of resource management plans with...
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The Alberta wall to wall land-cover (LC) polygon vector layer circa 2010 (ABMIw2wLCV2010), version 1.0, is a map describing the spatial distribution of LC across the province of Alberta for the reference year 2010. The map legend consists of 11 LC classes (see below), and the map itself (i.e., this feature class) consists of a mosaic of roughly a million non-overlapping polygons of various sizes, from half a hectare (ha) to thousands of ha. The minimum mapping unit (MMU, or minimum polygon size) is 0.5 ha for aquatic features and 2 ha for the rest, and the Minimum Mapping Width (MMW) is two Landsat pixels (60 m). The file format chosen for the ABw2wLCV2000 is ESRI file geodatabase (gdb), and the cartographic projection...
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Documents data sources and process steps for creating Phase 2 Spatial Designs for the Crown of the Continent Landscape Conservation Design
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The Crown of the Continent Landscape Conservation Design (LCD) is a means to achieve a resilient, sustainable socio-ecological landscape by bringing stakeholders together to prioritize and coordinate actions on the ground. Through an iterative process, stakeholders guide development of the LCD. The LCD produces a road map built upon conceptual models, maps, and strategies that supports stakeholders in achieving their collective vision and goals.
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Convened in the fall of 2019 by the Crown Managers Partnership, the Crown of the Continent Landscape Conservation Design seeks to integrate ecological and social goals across the Crown geography. Spanning 131,000 sq km (50,500 sq mi), the Crown straddles the international border of the United States and Canada. Landscape Conservation Design (LCD) is a means to achieve a resilient, sustainable socio-ecological landscape by bringing stakeholders together to prioritize and coordinate actions on the ground. The approach empowers stakeholders at all levels of the decision-making process and optimizes operations by aligning actions to achieve outcomes at appropriate scales. Through an iterative process, the LCD produces...
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