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Document: Core Team Meeting Notes 04-25-2014: Notes and summary information from April Core Team meeting.

Description of Geophysical Settings TNC Resilient Landscapes (April 2014): Description of Geophysical Settings TNC Resilient Landscapes excerpt from Anderson et al.

Table of statistics on the extent (ha) of geophysical settings as defined by TNC for their Resiliency analysis (April 2014): Connecticut River Landscape Conservation Design project; statistics on the extent (ha) of geophysical settings as defined by TNC for their Resiliency analysis (Anderson et al. 2012) in the Northeast region (NE) and Connecticut River watershed (CTR); the percent of each setting contained within the watershed (Importance); and the percent of each setting protected from development within the Northeast and the watershed.

Northeast Habitat Classification - formations, macrogroups, and ecological systems (April 2014): Northeast Habitat Classification - formations, macrogroups, and ecological systems. Includes acreage in the 13 Northeastern states and within the Connecticut River Watershed.

Agenda: Connecticut River Pilot Core Team Meeting 03-28-2014: Agenda, handouts and presentations from Connecticut River Pilot Core Team Meeting 3-28-2014 in Hadley, MA

Document: Core Team Meeting Notes 03-28-2014: Notes/summary from the March core team meeting.

Agenda: Connecticut River Pilot Core Team Meeting 02-24-2014: Agenda, handouts and presentations from the Connecticut River Pilot Core Team Meeting held on February 24, 2014 in Turners Falls, Massachusetts

Document: Core Team Meeting Notes 02-24-2014: Summary/notes from February Core Team Meeting

Presentation: Introduction to Designing Sustainable Landscapes: Purpose and Design: Introductory Designing Sustainable Landscapes Presentation given by Kevin McGarigal of UMass. Covers input layers for ecosystems and species, including habitat capability.

Presentation: LCC Framework for Landscape Conservation Design: Presentation on LCC Framework for Landscape Conservation Design for Connecticut River Landscape Conservation Design Pilot Core Team meeting on February 24, 2014

Presentation: Landscape Conservation Design in the Connecticut River Watershed and Northeast Region: Presentation on Landscape Conservation Design in the Connecticut River Watershed and Northeast Region given by Scott Schwenk at Connecticut River Pilot Core Team meeting on February 24, 2014.

Document: Ecosystem Goals, Objectives, and Tradeoffs (07-21-2014): Overview provided by Scott Schwenk on the Ecosystem goal, general and specific objectives, and tradeoffs related to specific decisions about the conservation design strategy.

Pricing the Priceless: Ecosystem Services Science at USGS: Nature's products and services are essential not only to the ecosystems that provide them, but also to the people and societies built on them. Factoring their value into cost-benefit analyses is an important part of smart planning. But that raises a new question—how to assign value to ecosystem services?

FY2015 Brook Trout Conservation Funding Opportunity: The Eastern Brook Trout Joint Venture (EBTJV) is seeking project proposals focused on conserving the habitats needed to support healthy and productive wild Brook Trout populations.

Map: CT River Watershed - Terrestrial and Aquatic Cores: DRAFT Maps for illustrative purposes only. Side by side maps of the entire Connecticut River Watershed. These maps show (1) potential terrestrial cores contrasting the slicing vs. the kernel approach and (2) a preliminary example of how the aquatic cores might look. Both are highly subject to change.

Map: CT River Watershed - Terrestrial Core Areas: DRAFT Maps for illustrative purposes only. Side by side maps of the entire Connecticut River Watershed. Two methods of creating core terrestrial areas are shown: the continuously scaled draft selection index and the kernel-expansion method in which the top 5% of the index (at left) is used as seeds to grow core areas until 30% of the landscape is represented.

Map: CT River Watershed - Stream Temperature, Rare Systems: DRAFT Maps for illustrative purposes only. Side by side maps of the entire Connecticut River Watershed. Headwater stream temperature sensitivity (USGS) and Rare Natural Communities are shown. These are two of the spatial datasets to be incorporated into the overall selection index for the conservation design.

Map: CT River Watershed - Combined IEI, Resiliency: DRAFT Maps for illustrative purposes only. Side by side maps of the entire Connecticut River Watershed. The Index of Ecological Integrity (UMass) and Resilient Sites for Terrestrial Conservation (The Nature Conservancy) are combined to highlight areas where these two indices align or diverge in their relative assessment of the landscape. These are two of the spatial datasets to be incorporated into the overall selection index for the conservation design.

Map: CT River Watershed - IEI and Resiliency: DRAFT Maps for illustrative purposes only. Side by side maps of the entire Connecticut River Watershed. The Index of Ecological Integrity (UMass) and Resilient Sites for Terrestrial Conservation (The Nature Conservancy) are shown. These are two of the spatial datasets to be incorporated into the overall selection index for the conservation design.