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Stream Restoration Challenge Kicks Off with Spring Plantings by Maryland DNR; kking, last updated: Apr 30, 2013 10:09 AM: This spring, more than 2,000 students from across Maryland got an early start on their Earth Day contributions, planting trees to improve water quality through Governor Martin O’Malley’s Stream Restoration Challenge. The program ─ which is still accepting proposals ─ provides grants for students and groups to carry out projects to improve Chesapeake Bay water quality through service learning and environmental education activities.

Discovering Species - Just a Click Away by USGS, last updated: Apr 19, 2013 12:40 PM: Biodiversity Information Serving Our Nation or BISON is the only system of its kind; a unique, web-based Federal resource for finding species in the U. S. and territories. Its size is unprecedented, offering more than 100 million mapped records of nearly every living species nationwide and growing. And the vast majority of the records are specific locations, not just county or state records.

MUST READ: USFWS FAQ on Surrogate Species by Jean Brennan, last updated: Apr 16, 2013 03:15 PM: From USFWS Website. Frequently Asked Questions.

MUST READ: 2012-11-01_SALCC Draft NR Indicator Process by Jean Brennan, last updated: Apr 16, 2013 03:11 PM: From the draft document: "Why are indicators needed? Designing and evaluating the success of a shared blueprint for landscape conservation actions in the South Atlantic will require some specific measures of what success would look like for natural resources. The ecosystems of the South Atlantic are complex and indicators help simplify the modeling and monitoring of those systems. We cannot measure everything all of the time. Indicators are designed to integrate many ecological functions and represent other components of the system that are either too expensive or time consuming to model and measure." [And] "How will indicators be used? Indicators will be used to help design a shared blueprint for landscape conservation actions that sustain natural and cultural resources in the South Atlantic region. This blueprint will include an interactive map depicting the key places and actions needed to sustain those resources in the face of future change (e.g., urban growth, climate change, sea level rise). Indicators and measurable targets for those indicators will be used to help design this interactive map and evaluate the effectiveness of actions based on it."

MUST READ: Overview of Representative Species Approach by Jean Brennan, last updated: Apr 16, 2013 01:38 PM: A 2011 overview presentation video by Andrew Milliken (prepared as background materials for the AppLCC Science Needs Workshop -- background/orientation meeting held Nov 2011.)

FWS Region-5 NALCC Representative Species Approach by Jean Brennan, last updated: Apr 16, 2013 12:16 PM: This folder contains background materials introducing the "representative species" approach Region-5 began prior to the formal adoption by the Service to promote a surrogate species approach (to inform landscape-level conservation.)

FWS Region-4 SALCC Natural Resource Indicators by Jean Brennan, last updated: Apr 16, 2013 12:14 PM: The SALCC included the identification of "surrogate species" as part of its biological or natural resource indicators to support the planning and conservation at the landscape-level

MUST READ: Working Documents - Merging RI/SS Approaches by Bridgett Costanzo, last updated: Apr 16, 2013 12:07 PM: Initial working documents developed to begin comparing the two approaches used to date for identification of Resource Indicators and Surrogate Species, and support decision-making on a way forward for the AppLCC.

MUST READ: Objective 2.7 Work Plan by Paul Leonard, last updated: Apr 16, 2013 12:06 PM: A Ppt slide image depicting the objective and identified tasks (steps/timeline) to advance the work in identifying surrogate species use as planning and monitoring approach to landscape-level conservation. (It is part of Section B of the 5-Year Work Plan - http://applcc.org/our-work/5-year-work-plan/work-plan-section-b

Protected Conservation Lands by Jean Brennan, last updated: Apr 11, 2013 01:24 PM

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Central Appalachian Spruce Restoration Initiative by Jean Brennan, last updated: Apr 09, 2013 10:17 PM

Southern Blue Ridge Fire Learning Network by Jean Brennan, last updated: Apr 09, 2013 10:15 PM

Appalachian Fire Learning Network by Jean Brennan, last updated: Apr 09, 2013 10:14 PM

Mid-Atlantic Highlands Action Program by Jean Brennan, last updated: Apr 09, 2013 10:10 PM

Partners in Amphibian and Reptile Conservation by Jean Brennan, last updated: Apr 09, 2013 10:09 PM

Ohio River Basin Fish Habitat Partnership (ORBFHP) by Jean Brennan, last updated: Apr 09, 2013 10:07 PM

Atlantic Coastal Fish Habitat Partnership by Jean Brennan, last updated: Apr 09, 2013 10:07 PM

Southeast Aquatic Resources Partnership by Jean Brennan, last updated: Apr 09, 2013 10:05 PM

Eastern Brook Trout Joint Venture by Jean Brennan, last updated: Apr 09, 2013 10:04 PM