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ABSTRACT: This project will place the PNW Coast LCD on a pathway for successfully engaging private landowners and increase the likelihood that the products of the LCD effort will be used to drive conservation in the region for years to come.The first goal is to develop a logical, sequential, effective strategy to engage private lands in the various facets and phases of the LCD effort. Having a jointly-developed landowner engagement strategy recognizes that this landscape design process should be conducted in close partnership with those whom we rely on to continue producing environmental values. The second goal is to implement initial steps of the landowner engagement strategy. These early implementation steps...
ABSTRACT: Guano has shown promise as a means of detecting Pd exposure in bats and is being investigated for its potential use for early detection in areas where sampling bats during winter is not feasible. Pilot work at a small number of summer roosts in Wisconsin and Washington in Summer 2017 demonstrated that Pd could be detected from guano accumulating under above-ground bat roosts for up to a 28-day period throughout the summer. We are requesting funds to extend this project into spring 2019 in order to increase the number of above-ground summer roosts within approximately 250 km of known Pd range of species known or suspected to susceptible to WNS necessary to evaluate this sampling method as a reliable...
The development of a Climate Change Monitoring Network (CCMN) for Hawai’i is a shared goal of a wide variety of Federal, State, and local agencies and other entities charged with understanding and managing natural resources in the State. This CCMN would integrate repeated measurements of geophysical variables (e.g., solar radiation, rainfall, relative humidity, soil moisture, stream flow) and biological variables (e.g., vegetation composition, bird abundance, stream organisms) to provide an enhanced ability to understand ongoing and future changes in Hawai’i. To support this effort, this project developed a series of tools, GIS maps, and plots to visualize the unique and complex climate on the islands of Hawai’i....
ABSTRACT: Bull trout movement patterns are largely unknown in the Upper Yakima River, and little data is available to inform spatial and temporal habitat use. However, the Service is in possession of a small number of genetic samples (n=25) collected at and near Roza Dam, which is located approximately halfway between the Upper Yakima and Naches Rivers local populations of bull trout. The Yakima core area is the largest core area in Washington located wholly within the state. Analysis of these samples would inform which local populations make movements within the vast Yakima Basin and whether there are interactions with bull trout from adjacent core areas, and would be extremely valuable to Mid-Columbia recovery...
ABSTRACT: The end product are maps and databases depicting habitat connectivity for particular species that are surrogates for a broader range of species. The surrogate Species connectivity modeling includes two components. First, each Surrogate Species’ breeding/home range habitats are modeled using empirically-derived variables such as land cover information and habitat patch size. Portland State University will deliver the results of this modeling effort to Metro in July 2018. Second, the best apparent connectivity habitat is modeled based on variables such as surrogate species’ permeable habitats that may not be sufficient for breeding but passable for travel; distance between stepping stone habitats; and likely...
Recent work to extend the instrumental record of Hawaiian rainfall (available since the early 1900s ) back several centuries indicates the presence of large and significant variations in rainfall on decadal time scales (see time series graphic above). Parallel efforts to understand agricultural changes in the Hawaiian Islands prior to European influences suggests that after about 1650 CE there was a shift in emphasis to productive maximizing strategies, with implications for the region’s economic and socio-political stability.The above is one of the motivating ideas for conducting this workshop. Previous work by several of the participants argued that an increased reliance on risky product maximization strategies...
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Formed in 2007, the Washington Wildlife Habitat Connectivity Working Group (WWHCWG) is an open collaborative science-based effort to produce tools and analyses that identify opportunities and priorities to provide habitat connectivity in Washington and surrounding habitats (https://waconnected.org). The WWHCWG began with a Statewide Habitat Connectivity Analysis, which highlighted several regions of the state that would benefit from finer-scale analyses. The group has since conducted analyses across many of those regions. The US Fish and Wildlife Service provided funding to develop habitat connectivity models for one of the remaining regions–Washington’s Cascades to Coast region. The goal of this project was to...
ABSTRACT: Fender’s blue butterfly, listed as an endangered species, is one of several listed prairie plants and animals endemic to the Willamette Valley of Oregon. The Oregon Fish & Wildlife Office (OFWO) has determined that the recovery criteria for the species, based on an outdated PVA, require updating. Over the past two years, the OFWO has been working with Dr. Bruce Marcot of the USFS Pacific Northwest Research Station and Dr. Nathan Schumaker of the EPA to develop an updated HexSim model of Fender’s blue butterfly populations, which will incorporate new data on butterfly movement capability to define a suite of potential conservation networks to provide for the long-term viability of the species. Funding...
PI/funding recipient’s name and contact info: Dr. Jim Peterson, USGS - Oregon Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, Oregon State University, 104 Nash Hall. Corvallis OR 97331-3803. Tel: 541.737.1963. jt.peterson@oregonstate.edu PI/Funding recipient’s organization: USGS - Oregon Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit Start date: August 15, 2019 Projected end date: September 30, 2021 Abstract: This project will use the best available science to strengthen the capacity of the Fish and Wildlife Service and its partners to assess the reduction in invasive species introduction risk achieved by implementation of the Pacific Region bioinvasion prevention policy. It will identify the most practicable...
ABSTRACT: The western bumblebee has decreased in abundance in parts or all of its range and is under consideration for listing under the Endangered Species Act. Populations have declined dramatically along the west coast and in the Rocky Mountains and Intermountain West since the mid-1990s, but the cause of the decline remains uncertain. Landscape genetic techniques combined with landscape-scale habitat modeling will help answer questions about decreases in the abundance and range of B. occidentalis and will provide insight into current and potential threats to these important native pollinators. Habitat changes caused by anthropogenic land uses that alter natural landscapes, introduction of previously unknown...
This project developed a series of tools, GIS maps, and plots to visualize the unique and complex climate on the islands of Hawai’i. This report descibes those resources and where they are located. These outputs help visualize the long-term trends in the distribution of extreme precipitation across the island chain, as well as changes in the occurrences of very hot days and very cold nights. Overall, the number of hot days has increased across the state while the number of cold nights have declined. The existence of the “Climate at a Glance” web tool, available through NCEI, supports 8 long-term stations in Hawai’i that showcases the temperature and precipitation trends since 1900. Moreover, this tool is dynamically...
Title: Scenario Planning workshops for PNW Coastal Landscape Conservation Design Abstract: The mission of the Pacific Northwest Coastal Conservation Blueprint is to achieve a network of healthy, connected, ecosystems and working landscapes capable of providing a full suite of ecosystem services that can absorb, respond, and adapt to climatic change and other key stressors through the use of collaborative, science-based strategies. Building from this effort (see www.columbiacoastblueprint.org) we will convene two 2-day Scenario Planning workshops to inform alternative scenarios useful to local planners. Scenario planning is becoming a well-established and valuable approach in adaptation planning, as it encourages...
Overview: A key principle of Landscape Conservation Design is that “Stakeholders design landscape configurations that promote resilient and sustainable social-ecological systems” (Campellone et al, 2018). From Campellone et al: (2018): “A beneficial aspect of stakeholder engagement in spatial design is the development of a deeper trust that the models used to identify priorities integrate their interests with other information and knowledge, which furthers social learning and collective agreement on resource allocation and landscape objectives (Melillo et al., 2014). Overall, the co-development of a spatial design helps organize landscape elements while maintaining and improving stakeholder buy-in (De Groot,...
The Pacific Northwest Landscape Conservation Design (PNW-LCD) project is a USFWS-lead collaborative effort to engage local communities throughout the coastal ecoregion of Oregon and Washington on landscape-scale conservation issues. In its third year, the PNW-LCD has made significant progress on collaborative science and identifying local issues related to land use. An essential part of this project is facilitating community dialogue and communicating complex science issues that are compelling to a broad audience. This contract is to provide resources for the continued facilitation of this project.
ABSTRACT: The Cascadia Adaptation Strategy, lead by the Cascadia Partner Forum, is a regional scale effort to shareinformation, regional spatial priorities, tools to explore future options, resources, and communications that help natural resource managers in the region implement actions to help the natural systems in Cascadia adapt to climatic changes. The Strategy will include: 1. A shared regional vision for a resilient Cascadia, below. 2. A regional spatial tool, a prototype of which is currently under development. 3. An accessible inventory of the existing resources to inform actions today, available online. 4. Scenarios that help visualize options for addressing issues of regional importance. 5. Stories and...
ABSTRACT: Planning tool software informs decisions about conservation actions for biodiversity and other natural values, such as scenery or ecosystem services, and identifies either (a) sets of complementary sites needed to achieve quantitative targets for biodiversity features or (b) the complementary contribution that individual sites make to biodiversity conservation within a region (Sarkar et al. 2006). These types of tools also inform decisions relative to identifying and the prioritizing working lands. This rapid assessment was conducted to (a) describe the suite of web-based conservation and working lands planning tools available and (b) inform a suite of recommendations to advance LCD implementation efforts....
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The goal of landscape conservation is to align conservation strategies across jurisdictions and broader geographies than any single organization has the capacity to manage. A landscape approach is critical to meet the emerging needs of state, federal, tribal, and private partners. There are several landscape conservation efforts in the Pacific Northwest in various stages. These efforts have different perspectives and practices related to stakeholder engagement, governance, landscape science, decision support tools and implementation strategies. There is tremendous value in sharing experiences, approaches, successes, and challenges. This Forum set the stage for increased coordination and communication around landscape...
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