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Steering Committee Advances Landscape Conservation Planning and Design in the Appalachians

Steering Committee Advances Landscape Conservation Planning and Design in the Appalachians

At the 2015 Appalachian LCC Steering Committee meeting, resource managers and wildlife administrators from throughout the region formally designated priority ecosystems and associated resources to focus the LCC’s landscape conservation efforts.

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Tennessee River Basin Network Workshop and Awards Celebration

Tennessee River Basin Network Workshop and Awards Celebration

The Tennessee Valley Authority and the Tennessee Aquarium sponsored a first-of-its-kind meeting that gathered regional conservation partners to celebrate successes conserving aquatic biodiversity in the Tennessee River Basin and to facilitate discussions among partners for greater cooperation and strategic effectiveness.

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LCC Names New Executive Committee Members

We have tallied all the votes for the election of our next slate of officers who will serve as the Appalachian LCC Chair, Vice Chair, and Executive Committee Officers beginning in April 2016.

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Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries Convenes Meeting with 3 LCCs

Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries Convenes Meeting with 3 LCCs

For the first time outside of Alaska, staff from multiple LCCs overlapping the same state met with a state agency to solicit feedback and share updates on their cooperatives’ products and tools.

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Managing for Species Adaptive Capacity

A new paper authored by researchers at federal agencies, regional partnerships, and universities, including Appalachian LCC Coordinator and Senior Scientist Dr. Jean Brennan, proposes a new conceptual paradigm for adaptive capacity.

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Appalachian LCC Science Delivery Workshop

The Appalachian LCC is setting up a science delivery workshop to share recently develop products and train partners in decision support planning tools.

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SARP Seeks Habitat Restoration Coordinator/Project Manager for Native Black Bass Initiative Program

The Habitat Restoration Coordinator is responsible for coordinating the implementation of the NBBI Business Plan with a primary focus on habitat restoration to benefit shoal bass in the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint (ACF) river basin.

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Environmental Educator Broadcast: Landscape Conservation Cooperatives

Environmental Educator Broadcast: Landscape Conservation Cooperatives

On August 26th, Appalachian LCC Coordinator Jean Brennan, National LCC Coordinator Elsa Haubold, and National LCC Communication Coordinator Laura McClean participated in a live broadcast that provided an update on the work of Landscape Conservation Cooperatives (LCCs) to environmental educators.

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SEAFWA Conference

The annual conference of the Southeastern Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies is a forum for the exchange of ideas and critical information regarding the management and protection of fish and wildlife resources primarily in the southeast.

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Southeast Conservation Adaptation Strategy (SECAS) Symposium

This symposium will present recent progress and suggest important next steps for key elements of this conservation adaptation strategy, 1) network of landscapes and seascapes, 2) conservation collaborations, and 3) landscape change information.

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Appalachian LCC part of Premiere Climate Education and Literacy Training Program

Appalachian LCC part of Premiere Climate Education and Literacy Training Program

The inaugural Educator Climate and Conservation Colloquium (or EC3) brought together 50 teachers and school decision makers from across the nation to receive training on campus sustainability and wildlife conservation issues to better serve schools and communities.

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Global Vulnerability of Forests to Climate Change-Related Tree Mortality is Widely Underestimated

Forests worldwide are vulnerable to growing risks of drought- and heat-induced tree mortality and forest die-off because of a rapidly warming Earth, according to just-published research in the scientific journal Ecosphere. The paper is an invited “ESA Centennial Paper” to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Ecological Society of America.

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Environmental Education Update - Landscape Conservation Cooperatives

This session will feature Elsa Haubold, National LCC Coordinator, Jean Brennan, Appalachian LCC Coordinator and Laura McClean, Science Applications Communications Manager presenting an update on the Cooperatives and sharing information about environmental educational resources available for use by educators.

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FishBrain and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Partner to Create App-powered Citizen Science Engagement Opportunity Tracking Endangered Species

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service – the federal government agency dedicated to the conservation of fish, wildlife, plants and their habitats – has teamed up with FishBrain ­– the world’s largest free-to-use app and social network for anglers – to launch a new feature of the app that will help the American public identify and document threatened, endangered and candidate species.

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Conserving imperiled species in the Upper Tennessee River Basin

Conserving imperiled species in the Upper Tennessee River Basin

When we think of river life, for many of us a handful of animals may come to mind – trout, smallmouth bass, muskie. But in the Southern Appalachians, waters of the Upper Tennessee River Basin are alive with a whopping 255 species of fish and mussels.

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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.

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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.

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Tennessee River Basin Network Workshop and Awards Celebration

The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) has engaged multiple partners in hosting a Tennessee River Biodiversity Network Meeting.

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Appalachian LCC Steering Committee Meeting

The major goals and outcomes of this meeting include celebrating progress of the last year, agree upon priority resources or the process for deciding on priority resources within the Appalachian landscape, and approve project funding for 2015.

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ASWM Webinar - Using Beaver as a Wetland Restoration Tool

Restoration Lessons Learned and an Introduction to the Beaver Restoration Assessment Tool

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