Modified items

All recently modified items, latest first.

Aborn, David: Bird migration, especially stopover biology. Effects of urbanization on bird populations.

Workshop Handouts: Please find here the handouts that will be utilized during the workshop.

AppLCC science-based resource catagories: Find here a visual key to identify the types of resources that have been derived from AppLCC funded-research projects.

AppLCC funded research synthesis: Please find here a document which highlights all AppLCC funded research and the resources derived from those efforts.

Executive Committee Meets to Thank Outgoing Chair and Vice Chair for Tremendous Leadership: For seven years, David Whitehurst and Paul Johansen valiantly steered the Appalachian LCC Steering Committee ship through its initial creation and tremendous growth as a regional partnership for landscape conservation.

Engaging State and Federal Agencies on Regional Science Information and Resources: In partnership with the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the Appalachian LCC staff recently conducted workshops in Crossville, Tennessee and Wheeler National Wildlife Refuge in Decatur, Alabama to introduce LCC-funded research products to resource managers and scientists.

Videos Around the Basin: A collection of more than 40 videos focusing on the ecology, threats, conservation efforts, and sense of pride in the Tennessee River Basin are now available on the Appalachian LCC Web Portal.

Coordinator Highlights Landscape Conservation Design Effort for Emerging Risks Roundtable Discussion: Appalachian LCC Coordinator Dr. Jean Brennan was an invited panelist and speaker at a roundtable discussion put on by the National Institute of Mathematical and Biological Synthesis and hosted at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville.

You can now “Like Us” on Facebook: Facebook currently has over 1 billion users, and the Appalachian Landscape Conservation Cooperative is now one of them!

New GIS Staff to Support Science Delivery Efforts: We like to welcome on board Marilyn Knight to the Appalachian LCC team.

Key Member of Appalachian LCC Community to Retire: The Appalachian LCC would like to give a heartfelt thanks and best wishes to David Hartos of the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSMRE), who after 39 years of experience with the federal government will be retiring in May.

Conserving the Tennessee River Basin: It Takes a Village: Nearly as diverse as the wildlife within the Basin are the people and organizations working to conserve it.

Our Organization: Landscape Conservation Cooperatives (LCCs) are applied science and management partnerships initiated by the Department of the Interior’s (DOI’s) bureaus and others involved in natural and cultural resource conservation and management. The Appalachian LCC consists of its Steering Committee members which is the decision‐making and oversight body of the organization, Staff who support of the work of the LCC and various work groups and oversight teams established to address specific topics or issues, often drawn from the partnership‐at‐large.