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National Heritage Areas: Natural and Cultural Resources in a Landscape Setting.

Enhancing the Climate Resilience of America’s Natural Resources: The President's Climate and Natural Resources Priority Agenda is the result of an interagency process to inventory and assess current policies, programs, and regulations related to climate change adaptation. The Agenda builds upon the robust climate change adaptation work already accomplished by Federal agencies and identifies significant actions moving forward. It specifically mentions how Federal agencies working to address ecosystem management issues through LCCs and other multi-stakeholder bodies will work with partners to select flagship geographic regions for which they will identify priority areas for conservation, restoration, or other investments to build resilience in vulnerable regions, enhance carbon storage capacity, and support management needs. Within 24 months, these agencies and their partners will have identified and mapped the initial list of priority areas within each of the selected geographic landscapes or regions.

Building community resilience by strengthening America’s natural resources and supporting green infrastructure: President Obama has made it clear that we have a moral obligation to our children and future generations to leave behind a planet that is not polluted and damaged. That is why, as part of his effort to combat climate change, the President launched a Climate Action Plan last year to cut carbon pollution, prepare communities for the impacts of climate change, and lead international efforts to address this global challenge.

Landscape Conservation Cooperatives: Building a Network to Help Fulfill Public Trust Obligations: The Landscape Conservation Cooperative (LCC) network (Network), comprised of 22 conservation partnerships spanning North America and U.S. Islands, is uniquely positioned to assist government members in fulfilling their public trust obligations to sustain natural and cultural resources for current and future generations by (a) ensuring inclusivity of broad stakeholder participation in conservation decision-making, and (b) building capacity for public trust to work in conservation, thus increasing the chance for successful and lasting conservation outcomes.

Landscape Conservation Cooperatives: Building a Network to Help Fulfill Public Trust Obligations: The Landscape Conservation Cooperative (LCC) network (Network), comprised of 22 conservation partnerships spanning North America and U.S. Islands, is uniquely positioned to assist government members in fulfilling their public trust obligations to sustain natural and cultural resources for current and future generations by (a) ensuring inclusivity of broad stakeholder participation in conservation decision-making, and (b) building capacity for public trust to work in conservation, thus increasing the chance for successful and lasting conservation outcomes.

Cultural Resources GIS: Data Availability, Quality, and Management: By Deidre McCarthy, Cultural Resources GIS Facility, National Park Service.

Appalachian LCC and Conservation Frameworks: What are they and why do we need one? By Ken Elowe, USFWS.

Cultural Resources and Climate Change: Climate Change Response Program within the National Park Service.

National Heritage Areas in Brief: National Heritage Areas (NHAs) are designated by Congress as places where natural, cultural, and historic resources combine to form a cohesive, nationally important landscape. Through their resources, NHAs tell nationally important stories that celebrate our nation’s diverse heritage. NHAs are lived-in landscapes. Consequently, NHA entities collaborate with communities to determine how to make heritage relevant to local interests and needs.

National Heritage Areas within AppLCC Boundary: Listing all the Areas within the Appalachians.

Guidelines for Evaluating and Documenting Rural Historic Landscapes: Technical information on the the National Register of Historic Places: survey, evaluation, registration, and preservation of cultural resources

SC Meeting & Workshop Agenda: For Meeting on September 3-5, 2014 in Shepherdstown, WVA

Appalachian LCC Riparian Restoration in Action: A user-friendly tool to address management needs was funded by the Appalachian LCC to allow 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.

Assessing Future Energy Development Across the Appalachians: The rapid pace of new energy development coupled with more aggressive methods for extracting traditional fuels pose substantial risks to some of the Appalachians most cherished lands, waterways, and wildlife. Currently, little effort has been paid to the effect of energy development on the swaths of relatively intact, recovering forest habitat that define the Central Appalachian Region. This project employs land use change build-out scenarios from future energy development demand to quantify future impacts on forest habitats across the Appalachian LCC.

Document: Notes from August 28, 2014 Terrestrial/Wetlands Subteam Meeting: Summary of discussions from afternoon breakout session after the core team meeting.

Deliverables: Data and final products from the Assessing Future Extraction of Energy funded research.

Documents: Information and materials pertinent to the full pilot landscape conservation design process. Includes preliminary and draft descriptions of the process and objectives. Also includes technical documents and general information being used in the pilot, such as a list of representative species.