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Essential Forests and Key Connectors in the Central Appalachians Whole System This shapefile represents The Nature Conservancy’s (TNC) “essential forests” and “key connectors” in the Central Appalachians Whole System. Essential Forests are built around groups of large forest patches, ecoregional portfolio roll-up sites, and areas with high local integrity and high flow density (from M. Anderson’s resiliency analysis). Key Connectors provide physical linkages among essential forests, have high flow density, and may also include large forest patches and matrix blocks. The polygons were originally delineated by TNC staff at a workshop near Petersburg, West Virginia, on March 9 and 10, 2011. The boundaries were hand-drawn on paper maps and then hand-digitized by A. Watland (TNC-VA) and T. Gagnolet... Categories: Data; Tags: Academics & scientific researchers, Central Appalachians, Central Appalachians Whole System Program, Climate Adaptation, Conservation NGOs, All tags... Data, Data.gov Appalachian Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Datasets/Database, Essential Forests, Federal resource managers, Forests, Hunters & anglers, Interested public, Key Connectors, LCC Network Science Catalog, Policy makers & regulators, Private land owners, Regional & county planners, Resiliency Analysis, Resilient Sites for Terrestrial Conservation, State agencies, The Nature Conservancy, Tribes, biota, boundaries, completed, environment, Fewer tags Across the Tennessee River Basin Across the Tennessee River Basin is a collaboration within the Appalachian LCC bringing together multiple agencies and stakeholders in a joint effort to plan and deliver landscape conservation actions to protect one of the most diverse areas for aquatic species in North America.The mainstem Tennessee River winds its way for roughly 650 miles through Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, back into Tennessee, and finally into Kentucky, where it empties into the Ohio River. Streams from these states, but also North Carolina and Georgia, feed the river along its course. Indeed, the entire basin encompasses over 40,000 square miles. Five major physiographic provinces are represented within the basin: the Blue Ridge, the Valley... Categories: Data, Project; Tags: Applications and Tools, Aquatic Resources, Aquatics, Biological Planning, Communities of Practice, All tags... Conservation Plan/Design/Framework, Data Acquisition and Development, Decision support, Engagement and Communication, Forests, Rivers, and Streams, Informing Conservation Delivery, LCC Funded, LCC Network Science Catalog, Landscape-level Planning, Methodology/Protocol, Project, Report, Science Needs Portfolio Thematic Areas, Strategic Habitat Conservation Framework, Working Lands, biota, environment, geoscientificInformation, inlandWaters, location, onGoing, Fewer tags Focal Areas for Golden Wing Warbler and Cerulean Warbler The Appalachian Mountains provide a multitude of habitats that are essential for hundreds of breeding, migrant, and wintering bird species. Its rugged terrain is dominated by forest and woodlands that span 15 states and contain several major eastern rivers that are heavily relied upon by waterfowl. But historical and current land-use changes, environmental disturbances, and other factors are resulting in population declines of more than 1/3 of bird species that breed and winter in the region. Coordinated action among local, state, federal, and other partners is essential to reverse these trends.The Appalachian Mountains Joint Venture (AMJV) is one of 18 habitat Joint Venture partnerships in the United States. It... Categories: Data; Tags: AMJV, Academics & scientific researchers, Appalachian, Appalachian Mountains Joint Venture, Birds, All tags... Cerulean Warbler, Conservation NGOs, Data, Data, Data.gov Appalachian Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Datasets/Database, Federal resource managers, Focal Areas, Golden-winged warbler, Hunters & anglers, Interested public, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, Policy makers & regulators, Private land owners, Regional & county planners, Setophaga cerulea, State agencies, Tribes, Vermivora chyrsoptera, biota, boundaries, completed, environment, Fewer tags Ecosystem Benefits and Risks Given the rapid environmental change experienced and expected across the Appalachians, it will be crucial to understand the vulnerabilities of valued ecosystem services to drivers of large-scale change that may threaten their sustainability. The Appalachian LCC has partnered with the US Forest Service Eastern Forest Environmental Threat Assessment Center to assess ecosystem services, and vulnerabilities to environmental risk factors, throughout the Appalachians. Synthesizing current knowledge of the diverse benefits that people derive from functioning Appalachian ecosystems will help managers, scientists, industries, and the public to establish a common language for linking the environmental and economic values... Categories: Data, Project; Tags: Applications and Tools, Conservation Plan/Design/Framework, Data Acquisition and Development, Datasets/Database, Decision support, All tags... Informing Conservation Delivery, LCC Network Science Catalog, Population and Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Project, Report, Training/Outreach/Workshop, Vulnerability Assessment, biota, completed, economy, environment, Fewer tags A Stream Classification System for the Appalachian Landscape Conservation Cooperative Unifying state-based stream classifications into a single consistent system, principal investigators at The Nature Conservancy developed a hierarchical classification system and map for stream and river systems for the Appalachian LCC that represents the region’s natural flowing-water aquatic habitats. This river classification information is needed to develop and implement instream flow standards and management recommendations so that environmental flows can become integral to all water management decisions from the onset.The study includes a report describing the methods used to evaluate and develop the classification system, a literature review of existing stream classifications, and a GIS stream data set. The... Categories: Data, Project; Tags: Applications and Tools, Conservation Plan/Design/Framework, Data Acquisition and Development, Data Management and Integration, Datasets/Database, All tags... Informing Conservation Delivery, LCC Network Science Catalog, Map, Project, Report, Training/Outreach/Workshop, User Manual, biota, boundaries, completed, environment, geoscientificInformation, inlandWaters, Fewer tags Stream Impacts from Water Withdrawals in the Marcellus Shale Region Public The Appalachian Landscape Conservation Cooperative (LCC) provided a grant to Cornell University Environmental Engineers to study how the region’s surface freshwater supply and the health of natural systems delivering this resource have been impacted and may be altered in the coming years under increasing water withdrawals.The research focuses on the Marcellus Shale region in the Central Appalachians, including portions of New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Maryland, West Virginia, and Virginia. In addition to considering the cumulative impacts of water withdrawals, the researchers looked at specific impacts of large water withdrawals with hydraulic fracturing in the Marcellus Shale region as one example.Datasets include... Categories: Data; Tags: Academics & scientific researchers, AppLCC, Appalachian, Conservation NGOs, Conservation planning, All tags... Data, Data.gov Appalachian Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Datasets/Database, Decision support, Federal resource managers, Hunters & anglers, Interested public, MARIS, Marcellus, Maryland, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Policy makers & regulators, Population and Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Private land owners, Regional & county planners, State agencies, Tribes, Virginia, Vulnerability Assessment, West Virginia, biota, completed, fish, geoscientificInformation, inlandWaters, risk, sampling, shale, stream impact, water withdrawal, Fewer tags Appalachian LCC Conservation Planning Atlas The Appalachian LCC Conservation Planning Atlas (CPA) is a platform for data discovery, sharing and collaboration for stakeholders throughout the Appalachian LCC region. With the CPA you can search for spatial datasets, visualize LCC-supported projects, and learn more about conservation science and design in the region. Categories: Data; Tags: Application, Applications and Tools, Conservation Plan/Design/Framework, Conservation planning, Consevation design, All tags... Data Acquisition and Development, Data Management and Integration, Datasets/Database, LCC Network Science Catalog, Map, completed, Fewer tags Appalachian National Scenic Trail Centerline_applcc-shp-006 This data set represents the most current depiction of the Appalachian National Scenic Trail centerline.Locational information used to create this data set were obtained from Global Positioning Systems (GPS) survey data collected between 1999-2010 using mostly Trimble GPS equipment. Categories: Data; Tags: A.T., A.T., A.T. Centerline, A.T. GPS, A.T. National Scenic Trail, All tags... AT, AT, Academics & scientific researchers, Appalachian National Scenic Trail, Appalachian National Scenic Trail, Appalachian Trail, Appalachian Trail, Appalachian Trail Centerline, CT, Conservation NGOs, Data, Data.gov Appalachian Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Datasets/Database, Federal resource managers, GA, Hunters & anglers, Interested public, K-12 students & teachers, MA, MD, ME, ME-GA, NC, NH, NJ, NY, Ongoing, Other, PA, Policy makers & regulators, Private land owners, Regional & county planners, State agencies, TN, Tribes, VA, VT, WV, location, Fewer tags Assessing Future Energy Development Across the Appalachians Assessing Future Energy Development across the Appalachian LCC used models that combined data on energy development trends and identified where these may intersect with important natural resource and ecosystem services to give a more comprehensive picture of what potential energy development could look like in the Appalachians. Ultimately this information is intended to support dialogue and conservation on how to effectively avoid, minimize, and offset impacts from energy development to important natural areas and the valuable services they provide.A final report from the study outlines the major findings of the potential footprint from coal, wind, and natural gas development. Models that depicts the probability... Categories: Data, Project; Tags: Applications and Tools, Conservation Plan/Design/Framework, Conservation design, Conservation planning, Consevation design, All tags... Data Acquisition and Development, Decision support, Informing Conservation Delivery, LCC Network Science Catalog, Monitoring, Pilot/Case Study, Population and Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Project, Report, Socio-economics/Ecosystem Services, Vulnerability Assessment, biota, biota, boundaries, boundaries, completed, economy, economy, environment, environment, geoscientificInformation, geoscientificInformation, inlandWaters, inlandWaters, utilitiesCommunication, utilitiesCommunication, Fewer tags Integrating Cultural Resource Preservation at a Landscape Scale A collaborative research project sponsored by the National Park Service and the Appalachian LCC seeks to integrate cultural resources, such as historic bridges and Civil War Battlefields, into landscape conservation planning and design to emphasize both natural and cultural resources in defining conservation priorities.The goals of this research is to address the threats of land-use conversion associated with energy expansion, urbanization, sprawl, and climate change on cultural resources that society values. In order to integrate cultural resources into landscape-scale conservation planning and design, researchers at Penn State University will first identify relevant resources and data requirements, while investigating... Categories: Data, Project; Tags: Academics & scientific researchers, Conservation Plan/Design/Framework, Conservation planning, Consevation design, Federal resource managers, All tags... Informing Conservation Delivery, LCC Network Science Catalog, Map, Policy makers & regulators, Project, State agencies, Training/Outreach/Workshop, boundaries, completed, location, society, Fewer tags Appalachian NatureScape The Appalachian NatureScape Design incorporates and models newly developed data and information from all Appalachian LCC funded research projects as well as key existing datasets from partners to produce a series of maps that integrate aquatic connectivity with terrestrial significant habitats to guide conservation planning and decision making. Categories: Data, Project; Tags: Academics & scientific researchers, Conservation NGOs, Conservation Plan/Design/Framework, Conservation planning, Consevation design, All tags... Data Acquisition and Development, Data Management and Integration, Datasets/Database, Federal resource managers, Hunters & anglers, Interested public, K-12 students & teachers, Policy makers & regulators, Private land owners, Project, Regional & county planners, State agencies, Tribes, completed, economy, environment, society, Fewer tags Appalachian LCC Boundary_applcc-shp-004 Landscape conservation cooperatives (LCCs) are conservation-science partnerships between the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), and other federal agencies, states, tribes, NGOs, universities and stakeholders within a geographically defined area. They inform resource management decisions to address national-scale stressors, including habitat fragmentation, genetic isolation, spread of invasive species, and water scarcity, all of which are accelerated by climate change. This dataset represents the geographic boundary of the Appalachian LCC. Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Citation, Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Academics & scientific researchers, Appalachian, Conservation NGOs, Data, Data.gov Appalachian Landscape Conservation Cooperative, All tags... Datasets/Database, Federal resource managers, Hunters & anglers, Interested public, K-12 students & teachers, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, Policy makers & regulators, Private land owners, Regional & county planners, State agencies, Tribes, boundaries, boundary, completed, conservation, fish and wildilfe service, landscape conservation cooperative, partnership, Fewer tags Classification and Mapping of Cave and Karst Resources It has been recognized by the Appalachian LCC partnership that to develop and deliver landscape-level planning tools, it is essential to develop an Appalachian-wide map depicting where cave and karst habitats and resources occur across the landscape. For the past 18 months, researchers for the Appalachian LCC funded “Classification and Georeferencing Cave/Karst Resources across the Appalachian LCC” project have been gathering and analyzing data on caves and karst region wide. This work has produced a series of deliverables, including narratives, data tables, geospatial information layers, and a variety of maps. The maps and files provide a comprehensive overview of data availability for examining relationships between... Categories: Data, Project; Tags: Conservation Plan/Design/Framework, Conservation planning, LCC Network Science Catalog, Map, Monitoring, All tags... Population and Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Project, Report, biota, boundaries, completed, environment, geoscientificInformation, Fewer tags Assessing Vulnerability of Species and Habitats to Large-scale Impacts Future climate change adaptation and mitigation strategies will be dependent on the best available projections of how the regional climate will change and the impacts those changes will have on the region’s natural and cultural resources. Understanding the vulnerability of various species and habitats to climate change within the Appalachian LCC is of critical importance for making effective conservation decisions. The AppLCC funded a Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment research project that addresses several factors: 1) how the Cooperative should acquire information about the climate vulnerability of Appalachian species and habitats to develop vulnerability assessments for a suite of key species and habitats... Categories: Data, Project; Tags: Conservation Plan/Design/Framework, Data Acquisition and Development, Data Management and Integration, Datasets/Database, Decision support, All tags... Informing Conservation Delivery, LCC Network Science Catalog, Monitoring, Population and Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Project, Report, Training/Outreach/Workshop, Vulnerability Assessment, biota, climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, completed, environment, geoscientificInformation, Fewer tags Pennsylvania Watersheds with a Documented Bat Occurrence Forest cores are derived by applying an inverse buffer (-100m) to forest patches to represent the area of contiguous interior forest habitat. Forest patches are defined as areas of contiguous natural cover bound by non-natural edge or linear fragmenting features (roads, railroads, transmission lines, natural gas pipelines). The following land cover types were selected from the 2006 National Land Cover Database (NLCD) to define “natural cover”: deciduous forest, coniferous forest, mixed [deciduous-coniferous] forest, scrub-shrub, woody wetland, and emergent wetland. Forest patches were delineated based on non-forest edge (from the NLCD) and the following linear fragmenting features:electric transmission lines (from... Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Citation, Downloadable, Map Service; Tags: Academics & scientific researchers, AppLCC, Appalachian, Appalachian, Appalachians, All tags... Conservation NGOs, Data, Data, Data.gov Appalachian Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Datasets/Database, Federal resource managers, Hunters & anglers, Interested public, LCC, LCC, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, Pennsylvania, Policy makers & regulators, Private land owners, Regional & county planners, State agencies, Training/Outreach/Workshop, Tribes, bat, biota, biota, completed, completed, conservation, conservation, conservation, energy, energy development, forest, forest habitat, forest patches, inlandWaters, inlandWaters, interior forest, risk, watershed, watershed, watershed, Fewer tags Riparian Restoration Decision Support Tool Provision of shade via riparian restoration is a well-established management adaptation strategy to mitigate against temperature increases in streams. Effective use of this strategy depends upon accurately identifying vulnerable, unforested riparian areas in priority coldwater stream habitats. An innovative riparian planting and restoration decision support tool is now available to the conservation community. This user-friendly tool allows managers and decision-makers to rapidly identify and prioritize areas along the banks of rivers, streams, and lakes for restoration, making these ecosystems more resilient to disturbance and future changes in climate.This research developed and implemented a user-friendly web-based... Categories: Data, Project; Tags: Applications and Tools, Conservation Plan/Design/Framework, Conservation planning, Data Management and Integration, Decision support, All tags... LCC Network Science Catalog, LCC Network Science Catalog, Monitoring, Population and Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Project, User Manual, biota, boundaries, completed, environment, inlandWaters, Fewer tags Interactive Conservation Planning for the Appalachian LCC The Appalachian LCC is currently engaged in an effort to develop a draft regional conservation plan for the Cooperative using an interactive and iterative spatial prioritization framework. Using available data and modeling approaches that are well supported in the literature, researchers from Clemson University are developing conservation planning models that include site selection, ecological threat assessments, and broad ranging habitat and ecological connectivity analyses.The research team is working closely with designated technical teams from each major region in the Appalachian LCC to offer unique insights and input to help guide the interactive conservation planning process. After each round of feedback,... Categories: Data, Project; Tags: Applications and Tools, Conservation Plan/Design/Framework, Conservation planning, Data Acquisition and Development, Data Management and Integration, All tags... Datasets/Database, Decision support, Informing Conservation Delivery, LCC Network Science Catalog, Map, Monitoring, Project, Report, Training/Outreach/Workshop, biota, boundaries, environment, geoscientificInformation, imageryBaseMapsEarthCover, location, onGoing, Fewer tags Ecological Drainage Units The objective of this project was to develop some basic stream classification attributes for the entire Southeast Aquatic Resources Partnership (SARP) region and to provide more detailed attributes in the eastern section of the SARP geography (9 states: AL, FL, GA, KY, NC, SC, TN, WV, VA) where additional data and modeling capacity was available. The final product is a mapped dataset of information linked to the NHDPlus medium resolution hydrography that can be used to classify stream reaches. Categories: Data; Tags: Academics & scientific researchers, Appalachian, Conservation NGOs, Data, Data.gov Appalachian Landscape Conservation Cooperative, All tags... Datasets/Database, Federal resource managers, Hunters & anglers, Interested public, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, NHDPlus, Policy makers & regulators, Private land owners, Regional & county planners, SARP, Southeast Aquatic Resources Partnership, State agencies, Tribes, applcc, biotic, completed, drainage, environment, hydrography, hydrologic, inlandWaters, model, morphologic, river, stream classification, stream reach, Fewer tags