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Risk Assessment: Assessing wildfire risk is important for natural resource managers, communities, and others with an interest in mitigating that risk. Wildfire risk assessment allows stakeholders to coordinate risk reduction projects, including prescribed fire, and to work with each other to better prepare for wildfires.

Overview: The Southeast has a complex fire environment unlike any other in the nation. While fire has long played a critical role in the landscape and ecosystems across the Southeast, it is becoming increasingly difficult for agencies, organizations, and landowners to plan for and respond effectively to wildfire, while protecting vulnerable communities and providing for firefighter safety.

RPCCR Training: Resources and self-guided training materials for utilizing RPCCR.

Climate Change Vulnerability: New climate change vulnerability assessments for 41 species and 3 habitats in the Appalachians are now available. The conservation community can view and search each of these assessments by vulnerability scores, conservation status ranks, state and subregion of assessment, and higher taxonomy. In addition, principle investigators NatureServe compiled the results of 700 species assessments previously completed by other researchers as well as assessments on several habitats.

Ecosystem Benefits & Risks: Understanding the complete and diverse benefits society receives from nature as well as risks to their sustainability will allow managers, industry, and the public to adopt policies that encourage protection and investments in these resources. To meet this need, the FWS collaborated with the Forest Service on cutting edge research that fully integrates society’s value of ecosystems with future threats to better inform natural resource planning and management across the Appalachian landscape. This unique work provides a comprehensive resource to partners at a regional level, serving as a model for the LCC Network to deliver ecosystem services conservation science.

Landscape Capability for Northern Waterthrush, Version 2.0, Northeast: This dataset depicts the potential capability of the landscape throughout the Northeastern United States to provide habitat for Northern Waterthrush, during the breeding season, based on environmental conditions existing in approximately 2010. Landscape capability integrates factors influencing climate suitability, habitat capability, and other biogeographic factors affecting the species’ prevalence in the area.

Landscape Capability for Prairie Warbler, Version 2.0, Northeast: This dataset depicts the potential capability of the landscape throughout the Northeastern United States to provide habitat for Prairie Warbler, during the breeding season, based on environmental conditions existing in approximately 2010. Landscape capability integrates factors influencing climate suitability, habitat capability, and other biogeographic factors affecting the species’ prevalence in the area.

Landscape Capability for Red-shouldered Hawk, Version 2.0, Northeast: This dataset depicts the potential capability of the landscape throughout the Northeastern United States to provide habitat for Red-shouldered Hawk, during the breeding season, based on environmental conditions existing in approximately 2010. Landscape capability integrates factors influencing climate suitability, habitat capability, and other biogeographic factors affecting the species’ prevalence in the area.

Landscape Capability for Saltmarsh Sparrow, Version 2.0, Northeast: This dataset depicts the potential capability of the landscape throughout the Northeastern United States to provide habitat for Saltmarsh Sparrow, during the breeding season, based on environmental conditions existing in approximately 2010. Landscape capability integrates factors influencing climate suitability, habitat capability, and other biogeographic factors affecting the species’ prevalence in the area.