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AppLCC Energy Forecast Tool Help: This document details the steps to use the Energy Forecast tool.

How to use the Riparian Restoration to Promote Climate Change Resilience (RPCCR) Tool: The following tutorial will descibe the steps to depict the riparian areas that would benefit most from riparian restoration. The RPCCR tool enables users to dynamically locate areas (within the selected riparian zone region) that would benefit from increased shading produced by planting of trees. The tool operates on a 200 meter stream buffer (100 on each side), and requires the user to specify values for maximum percent canopy cover and minimum solar gain percentile. The user can additionally choose to include minimum elevation (meters) and maximum percent impervious surface values in the analysis.

AMJV Partnership Successes for Song Birds and Game Species: The benefits from managing habitat for game species and managing habitat for songbirds are not mutually exclusive. Creating and enhancing a variety of habitats supports a diversity of wildlife and activities, from birdwatching to hunting.

Riparian Restoration: 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. The RPCCR is a web-based tool currently under development which is designed to allow managers to rapidly identify these high-priority riparian restoration targets. The objective of this project is to complete development of the RPCCR, link it with the Appalachian LCC website, and integrate it with ongoing stream temperature monitoring and modeling efforts within the Northeast Climate Science Center (NECSC) and participating Landscape Conservation Cooperatives.

Presentation: Ecosystem and Species-Based Cores and Connectivity: Presentation by Kevin McGarigal (UMass) on the species-based and ecosystem-based approaches to core area generation, and their connectivity, to the Connecticut River Watershed Landscape Conservation Design Core Team

October 31, 2014 Terrestrial/Wetlands Subteam Meeting: Associated documents, notes from afternoon breakout session after monthly Core Team meeting.

October 27, 2014 Terrestrial/Wetlands Subteam Meeting: Goal is to review scaling and weighting of ecosystems for IEI.

Document: Ecosystem Scenarios Summary for Terrestrial Subteam: This document summarizes the recent decisions made to date related to ecosystem core areas and provides additional information to aid in making final decisions on the remaining questions.

Connecticut River Pilot Core Team Meeting 10-31-2014: Agenda, presentations, documents, and notes from the October Core Team Meeting and associated subteam meetings.