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Spotlight Posters on National Park Resources

Integrating Cultural Resource Preservation at a Landscape Level

A collaborative research project sponsored by the National Park Service and the Appalachian LCC seeks to integrate cultural resources, such as historic bridges and Civil War Battlefields, into landscape conservation planning and design to emphasize both natural and cultural resources in defining conservation priorities.

The goals of this research is to address the threats of land-use conversion associated with energy expansion, urbanization, sprawl, and climate change on cultural resources that society values. In order to integrate cultural resources into landscape-scale conservation planning and design, researchers at Penn State University will first identify relevant resources and data requirements, while investigating issues of scale and data availability appropriate for spatial analysis and modeling. They will then identify a process appropriate to apply at the larger scale, moving from a single state to include the entire Appalachian LCC 15-state geography.

Integrating cultural resource priorities within landscape-level planning and modeling is foundational to the LCC's Landscape Conservation Design, which will guide the Cooperative's coordination and collaborative conservation actions over the next several years.

In-depth presentation from the research team on first completing pilot studies in Pennsylvania and West Virginia. The team investigated relevant resources, data requirements, and opportunities to identify the best process for integrating cultural resources into landscape planning. Future efforts may include scaling up local results to apply to the entire Appalachian LCC 15-state geography.


Interactive Conservation Planning for the Appalachian LCC

The Appalachian LCC is currently engaged in an effort to develop a draft regional conservation plan for the Cooperative using an interactive and iterative spatial prioritization framework. Using available data and modeling approaches that are well supported in the literature, researchers from Clemson University are developing conservation planning models that include site selection, ecological threat assessments, and broad ranging habitat and ecological connectivity analyses.

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Fact Sheet: Stream Impacts

Assessing current and future water withdrawal scenarios to inform decisions for achieving sustainable water ows that meet human demands and sustain healthy ecosystems.
Fact Sheet: Stream Impacts
Assessing current and future water withdrawal scenarios to inform decisions for achieving sustainable water ows that meet human demands and sustain healthy ecosystems.

Publication Date: 2017

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Fact Sheet: Cave and Karst Resources

Addressing knowledge gaps to better protect unique landforms and their wealth of hidden biodiversity.
Fact Sheet: Cave and Karst Resources
Addressing knowledge gaps to better protect unique landforms and their wealth of hidden biodiversity.

Publication Date: 2017

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Fact Sheet: Ecosystem Benefits and Risks

Fact Sheet: Ecosystem Benefits and Risks
Fact Sheet: Ecosystem Benefits and Risks
Fact Sheet: Ecosystem Benefits and Risks

Publication Date: 2018

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Assessing Future Impacts of Energy Extraction in the Appalachian LCC

4th Quarter 2013 Progress report
4th Quarter 2013 Progress report

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Background Information Interactive Conservation Planning for the Appalachian LCC Project

The project research team worked closely with designated technical teams from each major region in the Appalachian LCC to offer unique insights and input to help guide the interactive conservation planning process. After each round of feedback, revised conservation scenarios are being produced.

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Background Material Ecosystem Services Benefits and Risks

AppLCC Funded Research

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Ecosystem Benefits and Risks Webportal

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Ecosystem Services Benefits and Risks

Given the rapid environmental change experienced and expected across the Appalachians, it will be crucial to understand the vulnerabilities of valued ecosystem services to drivers of large-scale change that may threaten their sustainability.

The Appalachian LCC has partnered with the US Forest Service Eastern Forest Environmental Threat Assessment Center to assess ecosystem services, and vulnerabilities to environmental risk factors, throughout the Appalachians. Synthesizing current knowledge of the diverse benefits that people derive from functioning Appalachian ecosystems will help managers, scientists, industries, and the public to establish a common language for linking the environmental and economic values of the region’s natural assets in a way that encourages protection of and investments in these resources.

Given the rapid environmental change experienced and expected across the Appalachians, it will be crucial to understand the vulnerabilities of valued ecosystem services to drivers of large-scale change that may threaten their sustainability. The Appalachian LCC has partnered with the US Forest Service Eastern Forest Environmental Threat Assessment Center to assess ecosystem services, and vulnerabilities to environmental risk factors, throughout the Appalachians. Synthesizing current knowledge of the diverse benefits that people derive from functioning Appalachian ecosystems will help managers, scientists, industries, and the public to establish a common language for linking the environmental and economic values of the region’s natural assets in a way that encourages protection of and investments in these resources.

Tennessee River Basin Conservation Action Map

The Network is now identifying data resources and other information derived from these activities and, when possible, providing access to these resources via the Conservation Action Map and Network portal. Members will continue to be able to enter additional projects to the Conservation Map and tag new resources produced from their efforts.

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Conservation Strategy for the Upper Tennessee River Basin

he U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, with assistance and guidance from the U.S. Geological Survey, states, and other partners, has developed a cost-effective conservation strategy for 36 imperiled freshwater fish and mussel species in the 22,360 square-mile Upper Tennessee River Basin. The strategy identifies aquatic species conservation objectives and recommends a management approach for conserving and recovering prioritized species and locations across the basin. It is designed to help the Service better integrate its efforts internally and with those of partners in North Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia, whose missions complement the goal of maximizing conservation and recovery of imperiled aquatic species and the ecosystems upon which they depend.

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Across the Tennessee River Basin: TRB Network

Across the Tennessee River Basin is a collaboration within the Appalachian LCC bringing together multiple agencies and stakeholders in a joint effort to plan and deliver landscape conservation actions to protect one of the most diverse areas for aquatic species in North America.

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Landscape Dynamics Assessment Tool (LanDAT)

The Landscape Dynamics Assessment Tool (LanDAT) helps resource managers monitor broad patterns of vegetation change in order to understand dynamic landscapes and their capacity to provide ecological services and benefits.

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NatureScape FAQ Fact Sheet

NatureScape FAQ
NatureScape FAQ

Publication Date: 2018

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Tennessee River Basin Network (TRB) Fact Sheet

TRB Fact Sheet
TRB Fact Sheet

Publication Date: 2018

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Landscape Dynamics Assessment Tool (LanDAT) Fact Sheet

Landscape Dynamics Assessment Tool (LanDAT) LanDAT delivers monitoring information in a way that helps users interpret landscape-change and resilience
Landscape Dynamics Assessment Tool (LanDAT) LanDAT delivers monitoring information in a way that helps users interpret landscape-change and resilience

Publication Date: 2018

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Plan & Design: NatureScape Site

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Conservation Planning Atlas

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NatureScape Fact Sheet

Landscape Conservation Design and On-Line Conservation Planning Tool
Landscape Conservation Design and On-Line Conservation Planning Tool

Publication Date: 2018

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