Climate Change in the Tongass National Forest Fostering Strategic Collaboration and Informing Sustainable Management of Priority Resources

The Tongass National Forest has identified resources that are important to stakeholders and vulnerable to climate-related stressors. Cooperators will review an action plan and convene a workshop to be held in Southeast Alaska in 2016. The workshop will foster collaboration between scientists, managers, and stakeholders. Workshop goals include: sharing information about climate-related stressors and effects on NPLCC Priority Resources in the Tongass National Forest; developing strategic priorities for improving understanding, reducing risks, and increasing adaptive capacity and resilience; coordinating support for increasing knowledge and informing resource managers

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: AK-0, Alaska, Anadromous fish, Applications and Tools, Change in air temperature and precipitation, All tags... Climate Change, Conservation Design, Conservation Planning, Federal resource managers, Hydrologic regime shift, Monitoring, NPLCC, Priority A. Effects of hydrologic regime shifts, Priority D. Hydrologic regime changes on anadromous fish, Report, State agencies, Tongass Forest, Tongass National Forest, Training/Outreach/Workshop, Tribes, aquatic resources, climate change, hydrologic regime shifts, project, Fewer tags

Healthy Beaches for People and Fish: Protecting shorelines from the impacts of armoring today and rising seas tomorrow

Final Report

Soil texture for the North Pacific Landscape Conservation Cooperative- western Oregon, USA

This dataset represents the soil texture from SSURGO and STATSGO soil descriptions for soil map units in the state of western Oregon that lie within the North Pacific Landscape Conservation Cooperative. Soil texture is the mineral particle size distribution of soil particles within a soil horizon. This dataset also documents rock fragments and organic matter that may contribute to water infiltration, storage and relocation within the surface horizons of the soil profile. For reference, see NRCS soil texture triangle: http://soils.usda.gov/technical/aids/investigations/texture/

Tags: LCC, NP LCC, climate, particle size, soil, All tags... texture, Fewer tags

Soil order for the North Pacific Landscape Conservation Cooperative- southern Alaska (b), USA

This dataset represents the soil order from SSURGO and STATSGO soil descriptions for soil map units in the state of southern Alaska (b) that lie within the North Pacific Landscape Conservation Cooperative.

Tags: classification, climate, lcc, np lcc, order, All tags... soil, taxonomy, Fewer tags

Soil accumulations for the North Pacific Landscape Conservation Cooperative- northern California, USA

This dataset represents the soil pH from SSURGO and STATSGO soil descriptions for soil map units in the state of northern California that lie within the North Pacific Landscape Conservation Cooperative.

Tags: calcium, clay, gypsum, iron, magnesic, All tags... mineral, saline, silica, smectite, soil, Fewer tags

The cold-water climate shield: delineating refugia for preserving salmonid fishes through the 21st century

Abstract The distribution and future fate of ectothermic organisms in a warming world will be dictated by thermalscapes across landscapes. That is particularly true for stream fishes and cold-water species like trout, salmon, and char that are already constrained to high elevations and latitudes. The extreme climates in those environments also preclude invasions by most non-native species, so identifying especially cold habitats capable of absorbing future climate change while still supporting native populations would highlight important refugia. By coupling crowd-sourced biological datasets with high-resolution stream temperature scenarios, we delineate network refugia across >250 000 stream km in the Northern...

Categories: Publication; Types: Citation; Tags: bull trout, climate change, cutthroat trout, invasive species, refugia, All tags... salmonid, species distribution, stream temperature, Fewer tags

Furthering adaptation coordination and planning for species and ecosystems in the transboundary Cascadia landscape, and assessing contribution of eDNA to monitoring priority species

Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service

Project Theory-Climate Change and Traditional Ecological Knowledge Adaption in the Klamath Basin - Presentation

Overview presentation of the goals and programatic structure of the Klamath Basin Tribal Youth Program. Including an overview of the weekly structure and activitie within the program. The goal was to expose the students to a range of natural resource and climate change relate issues confronting tribes, organizations, agencies, and communities of the Klamath Basin and incorporate personal stories with available scientific information.

Tags: Klamath Basin Tribal Youth Program, climate change , traditional ecological knowledge

Nooksack Indian Tribe 2015 progress report NPLCC grant funding

Sea Level Rise Vulnerability Assessment for San Juan County, Washington

The Healthy Beaches for People and Fish project was completed by Friends of the San Juans in partnership with Coastal Geologic Services, Salish Sea Biological and the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife in 2014. Project approach and work was guided by a technical advisory group, which included representatives from The University of Washington, United States Geological Survey, Puget Sound Partnership, Skagit River Systems Cooperative, Samish Indian Nation, San Juan County Public Works, San Juan County Salmon Recovery Lead Entity, The Tulalip Tribes, Padilla Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve and the Washington State Departments of Ecology, Natural Resources and Fish and Wildlife. The project contained...

Categories: Data, Publication; Types: Citation, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: LCC Network Science Catalog, Publication, Report, San Juan County, WA, San Juan Islands, All tags... Vulnerability Assessment, Washington, coastal vulnerability, completed, sea level rise, Fewer tags

Current and Future Abundance of North Pacific Birds in the Context of Climate Change - GIS Files

This project acquired, federated and curated approximately one million new observations to the Avian Knowledge Network. These new observations, in addition to millions of existing records, were used to model the distribution and abundance of 26 species of land birds in the southern portion of the North Pacific Landscape Conservation Cooperative (NPLCC) region including CA, OR and WA. The models were based on climate and modeled vegetation.Using the models, maps were created showing the distribution and abundance of each species for current (late 20th century) conditions and projected the models to future conditions (2070) based on five regional climate models. The bird models were also used to create maps of conservation...

Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2011, Academics & scientific researchers, Assessenspecies migration, BIOSPHERICINDICATORS, CA-2, All tags... CA-2, California, California, Climate Change, Conservation Planning, Conservation Planning, Conservation Planning, Conservation Planning and Design, Data.gov North Pacific Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Decision Support, Decision Support, Decision Support Tools and Data, Federal resource managers, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, NPLCC, NPLCC, NPLCC, North Pacific Birds, North Pacific Landscape Conservation Cooperative, OR-1, OR-1, OR-3, OR-3, OR-4, OR-4, OR-5, OR-5, Oregon, Oregon, Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Pre-Strategy, 2013, Science Project, State agencies, WA-1, WA-1, WA-10, WA-10, WA-2, WA-2, WA-3, WA-3, WA-6, WA-6, WA-7, WA-7, WA-9, WA-9, Washington, Washington, abundance, abundance, climate models, climate models, completed, dataset, distribution, distribution, geoscientificInformation, land birds, north Pacific birds, product, Fewer tags

Humboldt Bay NWR Sea-level rise modeling

This project applied sea-level rise (SLR) modeling approaches along the Pacific coast tidal gradient at a parcel scale through improved data collection tools and collaboration relevant to land managers. At selected salt marsh parcels in both the North Pacific and California LCCs, data collection techniques were employed to assess detailed baseline habitat elevations; tidal ranges, microclimate, and extreme weather events; sediment supply sources; vegetation community composition; and vertebrate population indices. The design provides resource managers with information on the value of different datasets and methods including their uncertainty, as well as determines their usefulness in climate change adaptation planning...

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2011, Academics & scientific researchers, Alaska, British Columbia, CA-2, All tags... CA-2, California, California, California, California, California, Changes in sea level and coastal storms, Coastal shorelines and estuaries, Conservation Planning, Conservation Planning, Datasets/Database, Federal resource managers, Humboldt Bay, Humboldt Bay, Humboldt Bay, Humboldt Bay, Humboldt Bay Owls Clover, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, LCC Network Science Catalog - LCCScienceCatalog, Map, NPLCC, NPLCC, NPLCC, North Pacific Landscape Conservation Cooperative, North Pacific Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Oregon, Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Priority C. Effects of changes in sea levels, Project, Regional & county planners, Report, Science Project, Sea level rise, Sea level rise, Steelhead, Vulnerability Assessment, Vulnerability Assessment, Washington, Western Snowy Plover, biota, climate change, climate change, climate change, climate change, completed, environment, marsh habitats, marsh habitats, marsh habitats, marsh habitats, modeling, modeling, modeling, modeling, Fewer tags

North Pacific Forest Landscape Corridor and Connectivity Project: Assessing Landscape and Species Vulnerability - Spatial Data

Montane Conifer Connectivity of areas of high elevation and high human footprint in the North Pacific Landscape Conservation Cooperative study area. This application provides Montane Conifer Connectivity for 2000 and 2080 (A1B).The three primary geospatial layers used in this analysis were a digital elevation model (DEM), a vegetation layer, and a human footprint layer. Due to the geographic extent of the North Pacific Landscape Conservation Cooperative, digital elevation models from different sources had to be used to create one seamless DEM. The digital elevation models were obtained from the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM), the United States Geologic Survey, and the Government of the Yukon Territory....

Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: AK, AK-1, Academics & scientific researchers, B.C., CA, All tags... CA-2, Conservation NGOs, Conservation Planning, Data, Decision Support, Federal resource managers, Forest, LCC Network Science Catalog, NPLCC, OR-1, OR-3, OR-4, OR-5, Priority B. Changes in air temperature and precipitation on forests, Vulnerability Assessment, WA-1, WA-10, WA-2, WA-3, WA-6, WA-7, WA-9, WA. OR, accepted, completed, connectivity, corridor, dispersal, genetic, product, Fewer tags

North Pacific Forest Landscape Corridor and Connectivity Project: Assessing Landscape and Species Vulnerability - Final Report

Overview Land and resource managers in the North Pacific Landscape Conservation Cooperative (NPLCC) currently lack conservation planning tools that can directly feed into the planning, design, delivery, and monitoring of ecosystems across all levels of biodiversity from genes to ecosystems. The North Pacific Forest Landscape Corridor and Connectivity Project utilized a landscape connectivity simulator (UNICOR) and a genetic simulation program (CDPOP) to model the functional (dispersal and genetic) connectivity in the North Pacific Landscape. The outputs from these programs indicated areas with high potential for landscape and genetic isolation and low probability of dispersal and colonization. In addition, this...

Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: AK, AK-1, Academics & scientific researchers, B.C., CA, All tags... CA-2, Conservation NGOs, Conservation Planning, Decision Support, Federal resource managers, Forest, LCC Network Science Catalog, NPLCC, OR-1, OR-3, OR-4, OR-5, Pacific Northwest, Priority B. Changes in air temperature and precipitation on forests, Vulnerability Assessment, WA-1, WA-10, WA-2, WA-3, WA-6, WA-7, WA-9, WA. OR, completed, connectivity, connectivity, corridor, dispersal, genetic, habitat corridors, product, Fewer tags

Humboldt Marsh Vegetation

contains an excel format and shapefile format of the vegetation survey data collected within Humboldt Bay during the summer of 2012.We recorded vegetation data within a 0.25 m2 quadrat concurrently with elevation surveys. Data were taken at every fourth (25%) elevation point (n=740 quadrats; Fig. 4). We measured height (mean and maximum, measured within 0.05 m) and visually estimated percent cover for each species within each quadrat. This allowed us to develop a relationship between plant species, elevation and tidal datum across all sites. We also characterized the most common species, which were defined as those found at>10 % of the plots. Plant species frequency was plotted relative to MHW. This comprehensive...

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: DATA.gov North Pacific Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Data, Humboldt Bay, LCC Network Science Catalog, NPLCC, All tags... completed, sea level rise, Fewer tags

Final Report: Determine if climate change can affect the gathering calendar and natural resources of Kasaan Village and nearby Tribes on Prince of Wales Island

This project will utilize traditional ecological knowledge to establish traditional gathering practices. Interviews will be conducted with traditional gatherers (a.k.a. subsistence) over the last two generations to get baseline data. The project will have a direct focus on the four (4) federally recognized Tribes on Prince of Wales Island (Craig, Hydaburg, Kasaan and Klawock).

Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: AK-1, Academics & scientific researchers, Alaska, Climate Change, Conservation NGOs, All tags... Kasaan Village, LCC Network Science Catalog, NPLCC, Prince of Wales Island, TEK, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, Traditional Ecological knowledge, Tribes, Vulnerability Assessment, adaptation strategies, climate change, completed, product, species sensitivities, vegetation changes, Fewer tags

NPLCC Traditional Knowledge Final Report- Engaging SE Alaska Tribes on TEK, though Central Council of Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of AK

Central Council Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska (Central Council) assisted the Organized Village of Kasaan (OVK) in their NPLCC grant, Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Climate Change project. A survey was developed and used to interview traditional gathers on the time of year they did subsistence gathering.

Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: AK-1, Academics & scientific researchers, Decision Support, LCC Network Science Catalog, NPLCC, All tags... SE Alasak, State agencies, TEK, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, Traditional Ecological knowledge, Tribes, adaptation strategies, climate change, completed, product, species sensitivities, vegetation changes, Fewer tags

Using TEK to model the effects of climate change and sea-level rise on coastal cultural resources at Tolowa Dunes State Park, Del Norte County, California

This project obtained information regarding past catastrophic events, such as tsunamis, and TEK through oral history interviews with Tolowa elders regarding the effects of climate change and tsunamis on traditional smelt fishing camps; generated a GIS model of coastal inundation due to sea level rise and overlaid that with known archaeological and ethnographic resources; generated a final report with detailed information of past tsunami events, and modeled the potential effects of climate change and sea level rise on archaeological and ethnographic Tolowa sites using TEK and GIS based upon the results of this study.

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2012, CA-2, CA-2, California, California, All tags... Datasets/Database, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, LCC Network Science Catalog - LCCScienceCatalog, NPLCC, NPLCC, NPLCC, NPLCC, North Pacific Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Priority C. Effects of changes in sea levels, Project, Regional & county planners, Report, Report, Socio-economics/Ecosystem Services, Socio-economics/Ecosystem Services, State agencies, TEK, TEK, Tolowa Dunes, Tolowa Dunes, Tolowa Dunes, Tolowa Dunes, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, Traditional Ecological knowledge, Tribes, Vulnerability Assessment, Vulnerability Assessment, adaptation strategies, adaptation strategies, adaptation strategies, adaptation strategies, climate change, climate change, climate change, climate change, completed, sea-level rise, sea-level rise, sea-level rise, sea-level rise, species sensitivities, species sensitivities, species sensitivities, species sensitivities, vegetation changes, vegetation changes, vegetation changes, vegetation changes, Fewer tags

Implementing climate‐smart resource management across multiple ownerships in southwestern Oregon - Publication

Multiple agencies and organizations in southwestern Oregon have made significant progress in collaborative restoration of forest landscapes and in projecting climate change effects and adaptation responses. We will build on these efforts by moving proposed activities forward using a climate-informed framework. Specifically, we will (1) implement “shovel-ready” restoration projects using climate-smart management practices, (2) prioritize additional proposed restoration projects informed by a recent climate change assessment, and (3) mainstream climate-smart thinking in federal planning efforts. These activities will ensure that restoration in southwestern Oregon is resilient to future climatic variability and change.

Categories: Data; Tags: LCC Network Science Catalog, completed, product