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Data Needs Assessment Project Update: Rob Baldwin of Clemson University gives an overview on data needs assessment and an update on the Data Needs Assessment Project being conducted by his lab at Clemson University.

Appalachian LCC and Eastern Brook Trout Joint Venture Project Overviews: In this video, Jason Coombs of the University of Massachusetts gives a brief overview of three current projects taking place with the Appalachian LCC and the Eastern Brook Trout Joint Venture. These include web-based tools and viewers such as the Riparian Restoration Prioritization to Promote Climate Change Resilience tool that will be posted on the Appalachian LCC Web Portal when completed. Coombs also provided an update on the Eastern Brook Trout habitat patch layer.

Theme: Planning and Foundational Tools – Broad Information and Content Management Systems to Support Planning and Decision-Making: Theme: Planning and Foundational Tools – Broad Information and Content Management Systems to Support Planning and Decision-Making

Theme: Planning and Foundational Tools to Aid in Landscape-level Partner Products and Regional Initiatives: Theme: Planning and Foundational Tools to Aid in Landscape-level [Partner Products and Regional Initiatives]

Ensuring Climate Resilient Aquatic Communities: Partners of the Appalachian LCC presented the “Riparian Restoration Climate Change Resilience Tool” to the aquatic management and research community at the Annual Eastern Brook Trout Joint Venture (EBTJV) meeting in early September.

AppLCC Winter Newsletter 2015: In this edition we describe how Steering Committee members and invited experts began developing a process for articulating the Appalachian LCC’s priority resources, highlight all the new deliverables from our funding research projects, and more.

AppLCC Winter Newsletter 2013: Our Winter Newsletter details recently funded projects, launch of our new community web portal, activities in support of regional partnerships, and more.

AppLCC Spring Newsletter 2013: The Spring Newsletter details the decisions and collaborative efforts that took place at the Appalachian LCC Steering Committee Meeting & Workshop, the review and revision of the Science Needs Portfolio, the assembling of vital datasets to help conservation planning efforts, and more.

AppLCC Winter Newsletter 2014: The Winter 2014 Newsletter highlights how the Appalachian LCC and its partners are addressing landscape issues and bringing together a community to find sustainable solutions.

AppLCC Spring 2014 Newsletter: The Spring 2014 Newsletter highlights how the Appalachian LCC and its partners are addressing landscape issues and bringing together a community to find sustainable solutions.

Conservation in Transition: Leading Change in the 21st Century: In the following pages, we present a future vision that is mindful of the past. We examine the forces and trends that even now are shaping 21st century conservation in ways very different from that of the previous century. We continue with a broad analysis of the implications to the future Service and the growing realization that the change before us is, in many respects, change without precedent. We conclude with an assessment of the transformational change that will be needed by the Service — change already underway — to go beyond the successes of our past to new vistas of opportunity that lie ahead.

Strategic Habitat Conservation Handbook: A Guide to Implementing the Technical Elements of Strategic Habitat Conservation. Although the urgency is real, building capacity for SHC will be an organizational evolution, not an overnight change. Institutionalizing the SHC framework is a marathon and this document is intended to chart the course and set a purposeful and competitive pace.

Strategic Habitat Conservation - Final Report of the National Ecological Assessment Team: \We envision the FWS working collaboratively with partners to develop and implement a landscape approach to habitat conservation, leading to what we term strategic habitat conservation. Success will depend on how quickly and effectively our organizational approach evolves, including steps to better communicate with and work alongside our partners.

SHC Framework & Basic Elements: This slide details biological planning, conservation design, conservation delivery, and monitoring elements of SHC.

Fish and Wildlife News SHC Issue: In this special edition of Fish & Wildlife News, read how the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is putting Strategic Habitat Conservation (SHC) into practice. To ensure a bright future for fish and wildlife in the face of such widespread threats as drought, climate change and large-scale habitat fragmentation, the Service first endorsed SHC as the Service’s conservation approach in 2006. SHC relies on an adaptive management framework to inform decisions about where and how to deliver conservation efficiently with partners to achieve predicted biological outcomes.

Science Needs Portfolio: A group of over 150 invited researchers and managers representing a diverse cross-section of expertise and affiliations were assembled to identify the science information needs of Appalachia in order to effectively address the conservation challenges and opportunities across the landscape. The resulting comprehensive cataloguing or “Science Needs Portfolio” was developed to serve as a guiding framework, critical to help facilitate and support conservation planning, delivery, and applied research as well as monitoring efforts across the Appalachian LCC.

Science Needs Portfolio: Developed by conservation experts across the Appalachian region, the Science Needs Portfolio identifies science and data needs necessary to guide landscape planning priorities and decisions regarding allocation of funds. This Portfolio will be annually reviewed and revised based on priority needs, emerging challenges, and opportunities.