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This Final Report covers accomplishments for specified objectives and deliverables for a multi-year project (see attached report). We present connectivity map products developed by an ongoing, crossborder collaboration to assess landscape permeability for wildlife in the Okanagan-Kettle subregion. Additionally, we discuss two linkage areas within the subregion where we applied our findings to help inform on-the-ground connectivity conservation planning, and we discuss the application of a Decision Support System (DSS) to inform fine-scale linkage design and monitoring. This Final Report fulfills deliverables for USFWS GNLCC contractual agreement number F14AP01039.
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The Cascadia Partner Forum will complete conservation design for four Great Northern Landscape Conservation Cooperative conservation targets with significance to the transboundary Cascadia landscape to inform sound, data-driven management planning and action. This project aims to complete conservation design at the Cascadia-wide scale for grizzly bear, salmon, aquatic, and terrestrial connectivity to contribute to the Great Northern LCC Science Plan, while providing input and integration to the coarser-scale GNLCC-wide Science Plans established objectives, threats, metrics, and conservation actions for each target. Additionally, the Forum will conduct analyses on a common Great Northern LCC landscape stressor roads...
Categories: Data,
Project;
Types: Map Service,
OGC WFS Layer,
OGC WMS Layer,
OGC WMS Service;
Tags: Aquatic Connectivity,
British Columbia,
Bull Trout,
Canada Lynx,
Cascadia, All tags...
Cascadia,
Climate Change,
Connectivity,
Conservation Plan/Design/Framework,
Conservation Planning,
Decision Support,
Federal resource managers,
Goal 1: Maintain large, intact landscapes,
Goal 2: Conserve landscape connectivity,
Goal 3: Maintain hydrologic regimes,
Grizzly Bear,
LCC Network Science Catalog,
Land Use Change,
OR-2,
OR-4,
OR-4,
OR-4,
OR-4,
OR-4,
Oregon,
Oregon,
Project,
Regional & county planners,
Report,
Salmon,
State agencies,
WA-1,
WA-1,
WA-1,
WA-1,
WA-1,
WA-2,
WA-2,
WA-2,
WA-2,
WA-2,
WA-3,
WA-3,
WA-3,
WA-3,
WA-3,
WA-4,
WA-4,
WA-4,
WA-4,
WA-4,
WA-8,
WA-8,
WA-8,
WA-8,
WA-8,
Washington,
Washington,
Washington,
Washington,
Washington,
Washington,
Website,
environment,
onGoing,
transboundary Cascadia landscape, Fewer tags
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We request funding to complete operational scale connectivity analyses within identified priority linkage areas in the British Columbia–Washington transboundary subregion (from the Cascades crest eastward through the Kettle River Range within the Columbia Mountains). Our efforts will build upon previous investments by the Great Northern Landscape Conservation Cooperative and independent analyses that identified the major fracture zones within this landscape and the most important linkage areas to maintain or restore through those fracture zones including those expected to be resilient to climate change. We propose to broaden our partnerships while narrowing our focus for conservation planning to 4 individual linkage...
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We propose an international partnership to facilitate the identification of habitat connectivity conservation opportunities and implementation of connectivity projects in the transboundary area of Washington and British Columbia. The project will engage a transboundary subgroup of the WHCWG co-led by experts from both Washington and British Columbia to: (1) summarize and interpret our statewide and Columbia Plateau ecoregional products (see www.waconnected.org), as well as provincial products, with the objective of highlighting general connectivity patterns and to define where and how to focus our operational-scale transboundary habitat connectivity analyses; (2) establish subregional teams to collaborate on finer-scale...
Categories: Data,
Project;
Types: Map Service,
OGC WFS Layer,
OGC WMS Layer,
OGC WMS Service;
Tags: Aquatic Connectivity,
British Columbia,
Canada Lynx,
Cascade Coastal,
Cascadia, All tags...
Climate Change,
Columbia Basin,
Columbia Plateau,
Columbia Selkirk,
Connectivity,
Data Acquisition and Development,
Datasets/Database,
Decision Support,
Federal resource managers,
Goal 2: Conserve landscape connectivity,
Grizzly Bear,
ID-1,
Idaho,
Idaho,
LCC Network Science Catalog,
Land Use Change,
MT-1,
MT-1,
MT-1,
MT-1,
Monitoring,
Montana,
Montana,
Montana,
Montana,
Montana,
OR-2,
OR-2,
OR-2,
OR-2,
Okanagan Kettle,
Oregon,
Oregon,
Oregon,
Oregon,
Oregon,
Policy makers & regulators,
Project,
Report,
Rocky Mountain,
State agencies,
WA-1,
WA-1,
WA-1,
WA-1,
WA-2,
WA-2,
WA-2,
WA-2,
WA-3,
WA-3,
WA-3,
WA-3,
WA-4,
WA-4,
WA-4,
WA-4,
WA-5,
WA-5,
WA-5,
WA-5,
WA-8,
WA-8,
WA-8,
WA-8,
Washington,
Washington,
Washington,
Washington,
Washington,
Wolverine,
completed,
environment, Fewer tags
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Enhancing ecological connectivity - the degree to which landscapes facilitate the movement of the organisms within them - is a frequently recommended strategy for conserving wildlife populations into the future. This is because a primary way in which species respond to climate change is by adjusting their geographic ranges to find more suitable temperatures and adequate food supplies. It is also because connectivity facilitates many other important ecological and evolutionary processes within species' ranges, further promoting resilience and healthy populations. However, widespread fragmentation of landscapes by human activities presents a serious obstacle to these processes, which may contribute to a decline in...
Categories: Project;
Types: Map Service,
OGC WFS Layer,
OGC WMS Layer,
OGC WMS Service;
Tags: 2014,
Birds,
Birds,
CASC,
Completed, All tags...
Fish,
Fish,
Mammals,
Mammals,
Northwest,
Northwest,
Northwest,
Northwest CASC,
Other Wildlife,
Other Wildlife,
Plants,
Plants,
Projects by Region,
Wildlife and Plants,
Wildlife and Plants,
adaptation,
connectivity,
transboundary, Fewer tags
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