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Fact Sheet: Stream Impacts: Assessing current and future water withdrawal scenarios to inform decisions for achieving sustainable water ows that meet human demands and sustain healthy ecosystems.

Fact Sheet: Science Investments: Our work and achievements in 2016 and 2017 built upon the collaborative scientific foundation established in our earlier years, while continuing towards a vision of maintaining a landscape that supports the special biological and cultural resources of the Appalachians. It’s helpful to reflect on the systematic advances made by our regional partnership in terms of its actions, decisions, and our investments—both in terms of the science but also in terms of strengthening the partnership through investment in shared resources.

Fact Sheet: Cave and Karst Resources: Addressing knowledge gaps to better protect unique landforms and their wealth of hidden biodiversity.

Fact Sheet: Ecosystem Benefits and Risks: Fact Sheet: Ecosystem Benefits and Risks

Fact Sheet: Assessing Future Energy: Assessing Future Energy Development Across the Appalachian Region

2016-17 APPLCC Legacy Report: The Legacy Report outlines the work and achievements of the AppLCC.

Tennessee River Basin Report Card: The Tennessee River Basin Report Card was developed as a tool for prioritization and restoration decisions made in the Tennessee River Basin. The report card document is also meant to serve as an outreach tool for use by managers to highlight particular issues of importance when communicating conservation and restoration with the public.

Tennessee River Basin Report Card within the Appalachian Land Conservation Region

Report Card - fan: Graphic showing several stacked pages from the report card.

Tennessee River Basin Report Card (PDF): The first ever Tennessee River Basin Report card provides a snapshot assessment of ecosystem stressors, condition, and protection in the Tennessee River Basin. This report card was produced in collaboration with the Tennessee River Basin Network, the Appalachian Landscape Conservation Cooperative, and the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science.

TRBN Report Card Meeting Slides and Notes: Slides presented on the TRBN Report Card Feb 8, 2018

species habitat association list as a complete CSV?: Are the species habitat association lists available as a CSV file? Is there a master datafile for all files together http://applcc.org/plan-design/gis-planning/data/species-habitat-association-list What does the "LCC Global trust" binary status indicate. Thank You

What Are Landscape Conservation Designs (LCDs)?: “Landscape Conservation Designs” or LCDs are one of the unique contributions that LCCs bring to the conservation agenda. They provide the regional conservation perspective to assist local decision-making and collaborative conservation actions. This suite of videos provide a general overview of this emerging aspect of conservation planning and illustrates the iterative nature of conservation planning and design. Both the initial modeling design (LCD1) and the subsequent and more refined LCD2 are presented, which integrates a highly refined aquatic condition scoring system to better evaluate how best to represent a connected system and reflect its current ecological integrity.

Maximizing return on conservation investment in the conterminous USA: Efficient conservation planning requires knowledge about conservation targets, threats to those targets, costs of conservation and the marginal return to additional conservation efforts. Systematic conservation planning typically only takes a small piece of this complex puzzle into account. Here, we use a return-on- investment (ROI) approach to prioritise lands for conservation at the county level in the conterminous USA. Our approach accounts for species richness, county area, the proportion of species’ ranges already protected, the threat of land conversion and land costs. Areas selected by a complementarity-based greedy heuristic using our full ROI approach provided greater averted species losses per dollar spent compared with areas selected by heuristics accounting for richness alone or richness and cost, and avoided acquiring lands not threatened with conversion. In contrast to traditional prioritisation approaches, our results high- light conservation bargains, opportunities to avert the threat of development and places where conservation efforts are currently lacking. Keywords Benefit cost ratio, conservation planning, economic cost, habitat protection, heuristic, land prices, reserve selection, resource allocation.

THE INSURANCE VALUE OF BIODIVERSITY IN THE PROVISION OF ECOSYSTEM SERVICES: From the text: In the face of uncertainty, diversity provides insurance for risk-averse economic agents. For example, investors in financial markets diversify their asset portfolio in order to hedge their risk; firms diversify their activities, products or services when facing an uncertain market environment; farmers traditionally grow a variety of crops in order to decrease the adverse impact of uncertain environmental and market conditions. In this paper, I argue that biological diversity plays a similar role: it can be interpreted as an insurance against the uncertain provision of ecosystem services, such as biomass production, control of water run-off, pollination, control of pests and diseases, nitrogen fixation, soil regeneration, etc. Such ecosystem services are generated by ecosystems and are used by utility- maximizing and risk-averse economic agents (Daily [1997], Millennium Ecosystem Assessment [2005]).