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Riparian Restoration Decision Support Tool Fact Sheet
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Jessica Rhodes
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Aug 14, 2015
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last modified
Jun 02, 2025 01:11 PM
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Outreach,
Climate Change,
Aquatic,
Resilience,
Research
An innovative web-based tool - funded by the Appalachian Landscape Conservation Cooperative (LCC) and developed by researchers from the U.S. Forest Service and the University of Massachusetts - is allowing managers to rapidly identify high-priority riparian targets for restoration to make more resilient in preparation for changes in future climate. The Riparian Restoration Prioritization to Promote Climate Change Resilience (RPCCR) tool identifies vulnerable stream and riverbanks that lack tree cover and shade in coldwater stream habitats. By locating the best spots to plant trees in riparian zones, resource managers can provide shade that limits the amount of solar radiation heating the water and reduces the impacts from climate change. This well-established management strategy will benefit high-elevation, cold-water aquatic communities.
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Riparian Restoration to Promote Climate Change Resilience Tool
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Matthew Cimitile
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Nov 03, 2014
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Feb 23, 2024 02:48 PM
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Riparian Restoration,
Research
An innovative riparian planting and restoration decision support tool, funded by the Appalachian LCC, 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. It will also help the conservation community invest limited conservation dollars wisely, helping to deliver sustainable resources.
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Riparian Restoration to Promote Climate Change Resilience in Eastern U.S. Streams
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Matthew Cimitile
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Mar 05, 2014
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Jun 02, 2025 01:11 PM
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Aquatic,
Our Work,
Research,
Climate Impacts,
Streams,
Video,
Rivers
This presentation from Jason Coombs of the University of Massachusetts provides an update to the Steering Committee on this Appalachian LCC funded research project. The Riparian Restoration to Promote Climate Change Resilience in Eastern U.S. Streams is developing and implementing a user-friendly web-based tool to identify priority areas for riparian restoration in the context of predicted climate change at the appropriate scale needed by practitioners. A ‘shovel ready’ prioritization tool for managers facing immediate on-the-ground decisions will be developed. Then research will link directly to ongoing and future stream flow, temperature, and biological response modeling projects and decision support tools.
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Riparian Restoration to Promote Climate Change Resilience in Eastern U.S. Streams
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Matthew Cimitile
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Nov 29, 2012
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Aquatic,
Climate Change,
AppLCC Funded,
Our Work,
Research,
Streams,
Resilience
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.
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Riparian Restoration
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Santa Rosa-Paradise Restoration
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Rhishja Cota
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Oct 27, 2022
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Wildland Fire,
Research
The Santa Rosa-Paradise landscape is a priority landscape under Nevada Division of Forestry's (NDF) Forest, Range and Watershed Action Plan.
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Scattered Lands Hazardous Fuels
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Rhishja Cota
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Oct 27, 2022
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Research
The Scattered Lands Hazardous Fuels project focuses on 173,942 acres of high-risk forestlands in North Idaho.
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Southern Front Range Watershed
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Rhishja Cota
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Oct 27, 2022
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Wildland Fire,
Research
The Southern Front Range (SFR-JCLRP) project will treat vegetation in the project area within Pueblo, Custer, Huerfano, and Las Animas counties. Treatments would be adjacent to or near the towns of Cuchara, Aguilar, Stonewall, Wetmore, Westcliffe, Beulah, and Rye, Colorado.
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Species and Habitat Vulnerability Assessments of Appalachian Species and Habitats
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Matthew Cimitile
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Dec 03, 2012
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Apr 28, 2017 08:15 AM
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Climate Change,
Land Use,
AppLCC Funded,
Our Work,
Research,
Science and Research Products
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 to share with partners; 2) compilation of known vulnerability assessments of species and habitats, and 3) new climate change vulnerability assessments of selected species and habitats in the AppLCC region.
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Stetson University
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Rosanne Hessmiller
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May 31, 2022 09:19 PM
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Stetson University,
University,
Education,
Florida,
Research
Founded in 1883, Stetson University is a nationally ranked private university with four colleges and schools located across the I-4 corridor in Central Florida.
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Stoleson, Scott
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Web Editor
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Feb 20, 2012
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last modified
Mar 17, 2016 03:14 PM
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Federal,
Fracking,
Research,
Conservation,
Salamanders,
Avian abundance,
silviculture,
Riparian systems,
Herbivorous insects,
Species richness,
Range shift,
Natural variability,
Forest Management,
Restoration,
Fire effects,
Habitat quality,
Fragmentation,
Biodiversity,
Pennsylvania,
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Songbird migration,
Behavior,
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Bird monitoring,
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