Urban Ecology Focal Area

Prairie Restoration Focal Area

Agroecology Focal Area

Midwest Regional State Wildlife Action Plan Coordination

The Upper Midwest and Great Lakes (UMGL) and the Eastern Tallgrass Prairie & Big Rivers (ETP) Landscape Conservation Cooperatives (LCCs) are convening State Wildlife Action Plan Coordinators in the Midwest states of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio, and Wisconsin to work across state boundaries to conserve species of greatest conservation need and their habitats. The partnership members have agreed to focus on three conservation priorities that are common among their State Wildlife Action Plans: freshwater mussels, pollinators, and large grassland complexes with their associated species of greatest conservation need. Work under this partnership addresses implementation of these priorities...

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2017, Conservation Plan/Design/Framework, Conservation Planning, EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LANDSCAPE, Eastern Tallgrass Prairie and Big Rivers Landscape Conservation Cooperative, All tags... IA-01, IA-02, IL-01, IL-02, IL-03, IL-04, IL-05, IL-06, IL-07, IL-08, IL-09, IL-10, IL-11, IL-12, IL-13, IL-14, IL-15, IL-16, IL-18, IL-ZZ, IN-01, IN-02, IN-03, IN-04, IN-05, IN-06, IN-07, IN-08, IN-09, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, MI-01, MI-02, MI-03, MI-04, MI-05, MI-06, MI-07, MI-08, MI-09, MI-10, MI-11, MI-12, MI-13, MI-14, MI-ZZ, MN-01, MN-02, MN-03, MN-04, MN-05, MN-06, MN-07, MN-08, MO-01, MO-02, MO-03, MO-04, MO-05, MO-06, MO-07, MO-08, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, OH-01, OH-02, OH-03, OH-04, OH-05, OH-06, OH-07, OH-08, OH-09, OH-10, OH-11, OH-12, OH-13, OH-14, OH-15, OH-16, Ohio, Project, State Wildlife Action Plan, State agencies, WI-01, WI-02, WI-03, WI-04, WI-05, WI-06, WI-07, WI-08, Wisconsin, completed, environment, environment, onGoing, Fewer tags

NCTC Toolbox Workshops: A Train the Trainer Approach to Provide Services to Landscape Conservation Cooperatives

This multi-LCC project is designed to evaluate delivery of existing courses offered through the National Conservation Training Center (NCTC) as “pilots” to enhance expertise needed within the regional context of LCC and Climate Science Center (CSC) communities. Feedback from these offsite training sessions and other strategic discussion will help identify and prioritize which tools to include in future training for staff and partners. A pre-workshop and in-person exercise was conducted by reviewing SIAS metrics and other LCC activities for products required of the LCCs, determining the process/skills/tools needed to deliver this training, and listing training opportunities that are available or needed to develop...

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2013, AL-03, AZ-02, Academics & scientific researchers, CA-06, All tags... Conservation NGOs, Decision Support, EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LANDSCAPE, Eastern Tallgrass Prairie and Big Rivers Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Federal resource managers, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, MS-03, Project, Report, Report, State agencies, Training/Outreach/Workshop, Tribes, WI-03, WV-02, climate smart, climate vulnerability assessment, completed, environment, environment, landscape skills training, structured decision making, Fewer tags

River Restoration Focal Area

ETPBR LCC History

Eastern Tallgrass Prairie and Big Rivers LCC is one of 22 Landscape Conservation Cooperatives (LCCs) that serve as a forum for collaboration among many diverse partners working together to meet shared natural and cultural resource priorities for current and future generations. The ETPBR LCC is dedicated to addressing the conservation challenges of a heavily agricultural landscape that stretches across the nation’s heartland from southwest Ohio westward across to parts of eastern Kansas, Oklahoma and Nebraska and northward into segments of Iowa, South Dakota and Minnesota. Our vision is to restore and connect wildlife with people on the rich soils of a functional, working landscape. The ETPBR LCC Steering Committee...

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Academics & scientific researchers, Conservation NGOs, Data Management and Integration, EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LANDSCAPE, Eastern Tallgrass Prairie and Big Rivers Landscape Conservation Cooperative, All tags... Federal resource managers, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, Project, Report, State agencies, Tribes, completed, environment, environment, historicalArchive, onGoing, Fewer tags

Mississippi River Basin / Gulf Hypoxia Initiative

The Mississippi River Basin / Gulf Hypoxia Initiative (MRB/GHI), spearheaded by seven LCCs, is undertaking a strategic and transparent process to create an integrated framework that supports planning, design, configuration, and delivery of wildlife conservation practices within the watershed. This framework consists of multiple quantitative objectives representing three interests (i.e., wildlife, water quality, agriculture), a tiered set of conservation strategies to achieve those objectives within five production agriculture systems (i.e., corn & soybean; grazing lands; floodplain forest; rice; cotton), and a modeling approach to determine where to best implement those actions within four key ecological systems...

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2013, 2014, 2015, AR-01, CO-04, All tags... Conservation Design, Conservation NGOs, Conservation Plan/Design/Framework, Decision Support, EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LANDSCAPE, Eastern Tallgrass Prairie and Big Rivers Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Farm Bill programs, Federal resource managers, Gulf hypoxia, Gulf of Mexico, IA-01, IA-02, IA-04, IL-12, IL-13, IL-18, IN-05, IN-06, IN-07, IN-08, KS-01, KS-02, KS-03, KS-04, KY-01, LA-01, LA-03, LA-05, LA-06, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, MN-01, MO-03, MO-06, MO-08, MS-02, MS-03, Memphis, Mississippi, Mississippi River Basin, Mississippi River Basin, NE-01, OH-01, OH-02, OH-03, OH-08, OH-10, OH-12, OH-15, Policy makers & regulators, Project, Regional & county planners, SD-00, State agencies, TN-08, TX-13, Tennessee, Training/Outreach/Workshop, Tribes, WI-03, agriculture, completed, conservation, dead zone, environment, fish, habitat, hypoxia, hypoxia, initiative, landscape conservation design, onGoing, structured decision making, structured decision making, water quality, water quality, wildlife, wildlife conservation, Fewer tags

Monarch Pollinator Initiative