Final NPLCC Project Report - NPLCC Cross-Border Final Report & Appendices 2014

The Alaska Coastal Rainforest Center (ACRC) lead a second workshop to develop cross-boundary geospatial and climate data sets in support of regional conservation applications in the coastal temperate rainforest zone of Southeast Alaska and British Columbia.

Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: AK-0, Academics & scientific researchers, Alaska and B.C., Change in air temperature and precipitation, Climate Change, All tags... Climate adaptation, Climate projections, Conservation Design, Conservation NGOs, Conservation Planning, Data Management and Integration, Federal resource managers, LCC Network Science Catalog, NPLCC, NPLCC, Priority B. Changes in air temperature and precipitation on forests, climate modeling, completed, data integration, forest ecosystems, product, Fewer tags

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).

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Correlation and climate sensitivity of human health and environmental indicators in the Salish Sea - Swinomish Indian Tribal Community - Final Report

The overarching goal of the project was to develop overlapping conceptual models of environmental and community health indicators in reference to climate forecasts. The sensitivity of species and habitats to climate were cross-walked with recently developed Coast Salish community health indicators (e.g. ceremonial use, knowledge exchange, and physiological well-being) in order to demonstrate how Indigenous Knowledge can be used in conjunction with established landscape-level conservation indicators (e.g. shellfish and water-quality) and employed to identify resource management priorities. While results are unique to study participants, no Indigenous community in the coastal Pacific Northwest is immune to the impending...

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service, Report; Tags: Changes in sea level and coastal storms, Climate Change, Disease, pest, and invasive species, Federal resource managers, Health indicators, All tags... LCC Network Science Catalog, NPLCC, PNW, Priority C. Effects of changes in sea levels, Priority E. Invasive species, diseases, pests, Project, Salish Sea, Salish Sea, State agencies, Swinomish, TEK, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, Traditional Ecological knowledge, Tribes, Vulnerability Assessment, WA-1, WA-10, WA-2, WA-3, WA-6, WA-7, WA-9, Washington, adaptation strategies, climate change, climate sensitivity, completed, product, species sensitivities, vegetation changes, Fewer tags

Webinar: Riparian Climate Corridors:Identifying Priority Areas for Conservation in a Changing Climate

Webinar for by Meade Krosby, UW, July 24, 2014Protecting and restoring ecological connectivity is a leading climate adaptation strategy forbiodiversity conservation (Heller & Zavaleta 2009, Lawler 2009), because species are expectedto have difficulty tracking shifting climates across fragmented landscapes (Thomas et al. 2004).Connectivity conservation is thus a primary focus of numerous large-scale climate adaptationinitiatives (e.g., U.S. Department of Interior’s Landscape Conservation Cooperatives), and a corestrategy of many federal climate adaptation plans (NPS 2010, USFS 2011, USFWS 2010). Thishas led to a growing need for approaches that identify priority areas for connectivityconservation in a changing climate.Riparian...

Categories: Data; Tags: Academics & scientific researchers, Climate Change, Conservation Planning, Data Acquisition and Development, Federal resource managers, All tags... Hydrologic regime shift, LCC Network Science Catalog, Oregon, Priority A. Effects of hydrologic regime shifts, State agencies, Vulnerability Assessment, WA-1, WA-2, WA-6, Washington, accepted, adaptation strategies, climate change, completed, final, product, riparian areas, species sensitivities, vegetation changes, Fewer tags

A Conservation Priorities Tool for the North Pacific LCC

A conservation and restoration priorities tool was developed that provides online access to regional information including: climate change projections, watershed condition, freshwater and terrestrial species, forest ecosystem information and invasive species information.

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Stream temperature database & high-resolution NorWeST climate scenarios Webinar

Existing stream temperature data will be compiled from numerous federal, state, tribal, and private sources to develop an integrated regional database. Spatial statistical models for river networks will be applied to these data to develop an accurate model that predicts stream temperature for all fish-bearing streams in the US portion of the NPLCC. Differences between model outputs for historic and future climate scenarios will be used to assess spatial variation in the vulnerability of sensitive fish species across the NPLCC.

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Final Report: Pacific Lamprey Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment

The vulnerability of Pacific Lamprey to climate change will be evaluated by using an approach that relies on existing climate change model projections for stream conditions (i.e. hydrograph, temperatures, winter flood events) and lamprey sensitivity to environmental changes due to climate change.

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Cascadia Partner Forum: Transboundary Adaptation Efforts

The Cascadia Parner Forum fosters a network of natural resource practitioners working with the NPLCC and GNLCC to guild the adaptive capacity of the landscape and species living within it. This project supported three complementary transboundary climate adaptation and habitat connectivity activities in the Cascadia region: 1) Transboundary Climate Analysis by the Washington Wildlife Habitat Connectivity Working Group, 2) WildLinks workshop, and 3) Cascadia Partner Forum.

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Current Coastal Change Research and Priority Information Needs in Western Alaska

Research on coastal change in Cook Inlet and South East Alaska has increased rapidly in recent years, making it challenging to track existing projects, understand their cumulative insights, gauge remaining research gaps, and prioritize future work. The project proposed here will identify existing coastal change research in Cook Inlet and Southeast Alaska, and synthesize each projects focus, approach, and findings. The resulting report will document the research landscape for communities facing change, decision-makers navigating change, researchers pursuing projects, as well as funding agencies trying to prioritize where to allocate resources. This project will help the North Pacific Landscape Conservation Cooperative...

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Interim Report

WildLinks Final Report 2013

Interim Report, December 2015

Social Network Analysis Areas of Interest

The Social Network Analysis (SNA) provides data on where organizations are working, who they are working with and allows the LCD to identify gaps in conservation efforts and to identify collaboration potential. The SNA survey had respondents identify conservation priorities, level of engagement, level of collaboration, and different conservation strategies.These features represent areas of interest of conservation practitioners who have expressed interest in engaging in the broader landscape conservation design project (for more information visit the LCD project website http://columbiacoastblueprint.org/ ). Areas of interest represent areas where organizations work on conservation. They do not represent all conservation...

Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Data, Datasets/Database, accepted

Riparian Mapping Annual Report

Cross-boundary Planning for Resilience and Restoration of Endangered Oak Savannah and Coastal Douglas-fir Forest Ecosystems

This project aimed to: a) synthesize existing regional models of invasive/native species distribution and terrestrial ecosystem mapping, forest age and climate change to deliver GIS tools to prioritize land acquisition and conservation investment throughout the Georgia Basin; and b) extend those tools to facilitate cross-boundary planning with US partners to conserve endangered forest and savannah habitats in BC, WA & OR.

Furthering landscape coordination and planning in Cascadia

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

Project Proposal

Webinar

The Washington Connected Landscapes Project is a highly leveraged effort to provide scientific analyses and tools necessary to conserve wildlife habitat connectivity. In support of the project, we 1) developed tools necessary to reliably identify and prioritize areas important for connectivity conservation and restoration under current conditions and for allowing species range shifts under climate change; 2) tested and refined these tools by applying them in a Great Northern LCC (GNLCC)-funded effort to identify essential habitats and linkages for the Columbia Plateau Ecoregion where the WHCWG is currently engaged (connectivity and climate tools) and across Washington State (climate tools); and 3) released these...

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

Pacific Northwest Riparian Climate Corridors: HUC6 Scores by Omernik Ecoregions

These layers were produced as part of the WGA/LCC Riparian Mapping Project, which identified riparian location, condition, and climate adaptation potential, for the Pacific Northwest, USA. These layers identify potential riparian areas (i.e., near-stream valley bottoms; Theobald et al. 2013) that span large temperature gradients, have high canopy cover, low solar insolation, and low levels of human modification – characteristics expected to facilitate climate-induced species range shifts and provide micro-climatic refugia from warming. Detailed description of the project rationale, methods, and resulting layers may be found in Krosby et al. (2014). References: Krosby, M., Norheim, R., Theobald, D. M., and B. H....

Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Downloadable, Map Service; Tags: Riparian; Temperature Gradient

Project Proposal