2014 Proposal: Landscape Conservation Design in the Columbia Plateau Ecoregion: Prioritizing, Classifying, and Assessing Resiliency of Riverine Systems in the Columbia Plateau

This project will focus on integrating existing riverine/riparian landscape analyses to support decision making by the Arid Lands Initiative and associated partners in the Columbia Basin Partner Forum. This synthesis will produce a map of priority areas for the riparian and riverine landscape, and will include a stressors and threats analysis, with an assessment of resiliency to climate change. We will also complete the first phase of a multi-year project to develop an ecological systems classification for riverine1 systems in the Columbia Basin.

2012 Proposal: Piloting a Strategic Approach to Conservation Planning and Design for the National Wildlife Refuge System in the Columbia Plateau Ecoregion

The Pacific Region National Wildlife Refuge System will develop a strategic approach to identify region-wide land/habitat conservation priorities. This approach will be piloted in the Columbia Plateau Ecoregion and will result in a high-level landscape-scale conservation design. Working closely with conservation partners in the region, we will develop a data management and analysis model that builds from existing data sets and can be shared easily with other partners.

IDMN Integration in Action Webinar- July 10, 2014

For landscape-level analyses to succeed, researchers need data portals and catalogs to interact at many levels. This way users can discover and use distributed science products.

Synthesizing Socioeconomic Information, Data and Values in the Aleutians and Bering to Inform Large Scale Planning

Aleut International Association ABSI/the US Fish and Wildlife Service have a shared interest in conservation efforts that benefit communities and the natural and cultural resources they depend on in the Aleutians and Bering Sea region. The following proposed joint venture would leverage expertise, resources and the regional credibility of both entities to achieve mutually beneficial and outcomes over two years (2017-2019). It would expand upon current AIA efforts to gather input from all stakeholders in the region including: communities, tribal entities, and governmental in order to better inform resource management in the region. It would also improve communication between all the stakeholders, especially regional...