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The Northern Appalachian/Acadian Ecoregion: Priority Locations for Conservation Action
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This report describes the results of a research initiative launched by 2C1Forest to identify irreplaceable and vulnerable locations in the Northern Appalachian/Acadian ecoregion for the purpose of identifying priority locations for conservation action. Our methodology is data driven, comprehensive across the entire ecoregion, and spatially explicit at a high resolution, which allows our results to be replicated and applied at numerous spatial scales. Our approach to identifying priority locations involved three interlocking lines of analysis.
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Conservation Planning
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Conservation Planning Literature
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The Science of Conservation Planning
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The use of crowdsourced and georeferenced photography to aid in visual resource planning and conservation
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The advent of Web 2.0 and the growth of social media platforms have fostered an environment
for the documentation and sharing of landscape imagery. In addition to looking at the site scale,
using these big data allows for visual landscape assessment at the regional scale. The onset of Marcellus shale gas development in the state of Pennsylvania concurrent with the
rapidly widening availability of crowd-sourced citizen photography has provided a valuable
opportunity to study crowdsourced and georeferenced photography as an aid in visual resource
conservation design and planning. As Trombulak and Baldwin (2010) outline, the goals for this
work include identifying spatially explicit measures of change in the landscape, being able to
predict spatially explicit threats to the landscape, recognizing sites within the region that are
important or irreplaceable, and prioritizing areas for conservation action to address pressures
and preserve/conserve exceptional sites in the future.
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Research
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Funded Projects
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Integrating Cultural Resource Preservation at a Landscape Level
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The Working Lands for Wildlife Workspaces
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Thematic‐Area (1) Pre‐Existing Tools, Portals, Datasets, Resources
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Thematic‐Area (1) Pre‐Existing Tools, Portals, Datasets, Resources
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Resources
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General Resources Holdings
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Theme Program Descriptions FINAL Nov 2011
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Theme Program Descriptions FINAL
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Resources
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General Resources Holdings
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Theme: Planning and Foundational Tools – Broad Information and Content Management Systems to Support Planning and Decision-Making
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Theme: Planning and Foundational Tools – Broad Information and Content Management Systems to Support Planning and Decision-Making
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Training
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Videos and Webinars
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Theme: Planning and Foundational Tools to Aid in Landscape-level Partner Products and Regional Initiatives
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Theme: Planning and Foundational Tools to Aid in Landscape-level [Partner Products and Regional Initiatives]
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Training
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Videos and Webinars
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Theme: Tools and Approaches – Neighboring LCCs
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Theme: Tools and Approaches – Neighboring LCCs
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Training
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Videos and Webinars
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Theme: Work of the Appalachian LCC
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Training
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Videos and Webinars
