U'S' Fish and Wildlife Service Landscape Conservation Cooperatives

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U.S. Fish and Wildlife ServiceLandscape
Conservation Cooperatives
Atlantic Coast Joint Venture Management
Board December 3, 2009 Marvin Moriarty and Cindy
Dohner Regional Directors, Northeast and
Southeast Regions
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Information on LCCs

• How they came to be
• How they will function
• Funding information
• Relationship to Joint Ventures

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Landscape Conservation Basic Definitions

• Science-based approach to conservation focused
  on providing landscapes capable of sustaining
  populations of priority species
• Approach is founded on an adaptive, iterative
  process of biological planning, conservation
  design, conservation delivery, monitoring and
  research.
• Adaptive Management approach

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Adaptive Management

• An adaptive approach to science-based landscape
  conservation follows these steps
• Planning
• Conservation Design
• Conservation Delivery
• Monitoring and Research

Adaptive Resource Management
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USFWS Climate Change Strategic Plan
http//www.fws.gov/home/climatechange/ comment
period ended November 30
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USFWS Climate Change Strategic Plan

• Establish Landscape Conservation Cooperatives
  that enable members of the conservation community
  to plan, design and deliver conservation in ways
  that integrate local, State, Tribal, regional,
  national and international efforts and
  resources.
• LCCs

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USFWS Climate Change Strategic PlanFY 2010
Budget Request

• 20M overtarget for Climate Change
• 10M Science Capacity
• 10M Science products

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Climate Change DOI Secretarial Order No. 3289

• Issued September 14, 2009
• includes the following
• A network of Landscape Conservation
  Cooperatives will engage DOI and federal
  agencies, states, tribal and local governments
  and the public to craft practical,
  landscape-level strategies for managing climate
  change impacts
• LCCs

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Funding (FY 10) for Climate Change and Landscape
Conservation Cooperatives

• USFWS
• 10 M nationwide for LCCs (capacity)
• 10 M nationwide for LCCs (science)
• Expectation 8 LCCs will be developed in FY 2010
• USGS
• DOI Regional Climate Change Response Centers
• Support for USFWS CC Activities (5 M)

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Funding (FY 10) for Climate Change and Landscape
Conservation Cooperatives

• USFWS stand up eight LCCs (of 22)
• Each Region gets
• 1.2M planning and staffing
• 875k science
• 150k administration
• Washington Office gets
• 97k staffing
• 97k science
• 6k administration
• 2M for cross LCC science project competition

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Additional USFWS (FY 10) funding for Climate
Change

• USFWS Program Funding for Climate Change
• National Wildlife Refuges (12M)
• For Inventory and Monitoring
• Partners for Fish and Wildlife (6M)
• Conservation Delivery in Support of Climate
  Change
• Fisheries (2M)
• Support for Fish Habitat Partnerships
• State Wildlife Grants
• Increased funding in FY 2010 (15M)
• State Wildlife Action Plans will be updated to
  incorporate climate change

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Guidance on Incorporating Climate Change into
State Wildlife Action Plans
LCCs offer opportunity for states and partners to
develop regional adaptation strategies that can
be included in state plans.
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Landscape Conservation Cooperatives

• A seamless network of conservation science
  partnerships that provide science and technical
  support including
• Biological planning
• Conservation Design
• Monitoring and Research
• to conservation delivery programs and
  partnerships to meet common goals for sustaining
  fish, wildlife and plants
• Initial focus on climate change adaptation
  planning

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Landscape Conservation Cooperatives

• Conservation science partnerships
• National Geographic Framework -seamless network

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Form and Function of Landscape Conservation
Cooperatives

• Self-directed partnerships between federal and
  state agencies, tribes, NGOs, universities and
  others
• Build on existing partnerships
• Guided by a steering committee with
  representatives of partner organizations
• Provide management direction and priorities
• Shared capacity (including staff) for
  coordination, technology and science including
  population and habitat modeling, GIS, decision
  analysis, monitoring and evaluation, data
  management, etc.

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Overlay of ACJV with LCC Boundaries
Caribbean
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Atlantic Coast Joint Venture and the LCCs

• Some alternatives to consider
• ACJV does not actively collaborate with LCCs
• ACJV leads establishment of LCCs within the ACJV
  area
• ACJV and Fish Habitat Partnerships lead
  establishment of LCCs within the ACJV area
• ACJV splits into separate JVs aligned with LCC
  boundaries
• ACJV helps lead establishment of LCC and actively
  collaborates in their development and science
  activities

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Questions?? Discussion??

• Thank You

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Form and Function of Landscape Conservation
Cooperatives

• For LCCs to function as a national framework and
  a seamless national network, each will have
• A steering committee of executive and management
  level representatives from partner organizations,
  which will provide management direction and set
  priorities
• An LCC Coordinator
• A science and technology coordinator
• GIS capability and other expertise as needed

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Relationship of LCCs to Existing JVs and other
Partnerships

• LCCs will build on existing partnerships
• LCCs partly modeled after joint ventures
• National geographic framework generally follows
  Bird Conservation Region/joint venture boundaries
• Discussions underway in all joint ventures about
  role in LCCs
• Each JV needs to evaluate appropriate level of
  involvement
• LCCs need to support all taxonomic groups and all
  relevant programs and partnerships

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