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Feedback Requested on Park Values: The National Park Service is starting the process of preparing a Foundation Document for Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The park would like to invite park stakeholders to join in this effort.

Survey design and techniques for sampling native bees: Wedge Watkins ( USFWS Midwest Region Pollinator Coordinator) discusses and demonstrates field survey techniques that are being used to sample native bee populations.

Past Meetings: Information, documents, and decisions related to previous gatherings of the Steering Committee.

2015 Steering Committee Notes: From Appalachian LCC meeting that took place July 14-15 at the National Conservation Training Center in Shepherdstown, WVA.

Steering Committee Meeting Major Action Items: From 2015 meeting that took place July 14-15 at the National Conservation Training Center in Shepherdstown, WVA.

July 13-15, 2015 Appalachian LCC Steering Committee Meeting: The 2015 Steering Committee Meeting took place at the National Conservation Training Center in Shepherdstown, West Virginia.

2015 Annual Report: Since we began, the Appalachian LCC has worked to define data and conservation science needs, invest in gathering foundational data and priority research, and build a coordinated network for those investments to pay off. Many of our funded research projects are now beginning to deliver important science information and tools to support landscape conservation for the valued natural and cultural resources in the Appalachians.

Steering Committee Meeting Participants: List of those who attended the 2015 Appalachian LCC Steering Committee Meeting.

Thematic Areas from Science Needs Portfolio and LCC Funded Projects: Aligning Appalachian LCC funded projects with the thematic areas of our Science Needs Portfolio.

Southeast Conservation Adaptation Strategy Presentation: Focus on assembling an ecologically connected network of landscapes and seascapes.

Habitat Conservation Vision for the Susquehanna Region: Focusing on Fish and Wildlife Resources.

Project Opportunity Ranks Discussion: Discussing funding and leverage opportunities around project opportunities.

Project Opportunity Ranks: Steering Committee member rankings of project opportunities in near future.

Appalachian LCC Communications Presentation: Overview of communications around the release of the energy assessment tool, riparian restoration tool, Tennessee River Basin partnership, and other LCC initiatives.

Appalachian LCC Budget Report: Report about Appalachian LCC budget, procurement policy, transparency, and conflict of interest.

Priority Resources and Species: Next Phase: Presentation to facilitate discussion around how to identify priority resources and species and what to implement in the next phase of conservation design project.

Appalachian LCC Conservation Design: Phase 1: An overview of how this research developed a process of selecting priority resources by using LCC technical input to build a group of candidate priority resources and include them in a spatial modeling process to produce a draft landscape‐scale conservation design; identified additional priority resources to include in future iterations of the conservation design; and built and acquired datasets, derived data modeling strategies needed to achieve first two objectives.