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Designing Sustainable Landscapes
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This project highlights the potential for collaboration and coordination among conservation practitioners and research scientists to plan for the future. A team of UMass scientists has developed a landscape change, assessment and design model to assess ecosystems and their capacity to sustain populations of wildlife in the northeastern U.S. in the face of urban growth, climate change, and other stressors. The project plays a major role in developing the science and data for two collaborative landscape planning and design efforts: 1) Connect the Connecticut, the pilot Landscape Conservation Design for the Connecticut River Watershed, and 2) Nature's Network, which expands and elaborates on the data to extend to throughout New England and the Mid-Atlantic. Using the best available science and information, participating partners are developing tools and strategies for conserving a connected network of lands and waters to sustain natural resources and communities within the watershed.
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Document: Action Items and Meeting Notes 01-15-2014
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Action items from preliminary Connecticut River Pilot meeting and notes from the day.
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Connecticut River Pilot - FWS Members Meeting 01-15-2014
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Document: Representative species being modeled in CT River Watershed
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At 2011 workshops in each of the three sub-regions, Service scientists and other experts selected a total of 87 terrestrial and wetland representative species. This table lists the representative species that occur in the Connecticut River Watershed for which habitat models are being developed through the Designing Sustainable Landscapes project, including the 13 species that are due to be completed first. The table includes associated habitats and examples of the species they are intended to represent.
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Document: Summary points from the USFWS Connecticut River Coordinator 1-15-14
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Summary points from the USFWS Connecticut River Coordinator/Executive Assistant to the Connecticut River Atlantic Salmon Commission (CRASC), Ken Sprankle. Presented at LCC Connecticut River Pilot Meeting, 01-15-14.
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Documentation: Population Persistence Modelling
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Documentation for Task 3: Incorporate climate change forecasts into population persistence models. UMass will obtain an ‘envelope’ of downscaled global circulation data on precipitation and air temperature and incorporate these into the models in Task 1 using relationships from Task 2 in order to forecast local population persistence across climate change scenarios.
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Forecasting Changes in Aquatic Systems and Resilience of Brook Trout
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Environmental Flows in the Northeast
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“Environmental flows” refer to the quantity, quality, and timing of water flows necessary to sustain freshwater and estuarine ecosystems and the associated resources that people depend on. This document discusses opportunities for future LCC / NECSC involvement in environmental flows projects, including temperature monitoring, modeling and relationship to stream flow.
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Extending the Northeast Terrestrial Habitat Map to Atlantic Canada
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This project developed a comprehensive terrestrial habitat map for the entire extent of the North Atlantic Landscape Conservation Cooperative (NALCC) region by extending the Northeast Terrestrial Habitat Map to Atlantic Canada and southern Quebec. The completed version was released on September 10, 2015.
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Extending the Northeast Terrestrial Habitat Map to Atlantic Canada
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Fact Sheet on LCC aquatic habitats project
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Fact sheet that describes the LCC project: Decision support tool to assess aquatic habitats and threats in North Atlantic watersheds and estuaries.
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6-27-2013 Steering Committee Call Handouts
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Forecasting Changes in Aquatic Systems and Resilience of Brook Trout
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The objective of this project was to develop tools to assist managers in protecting and restoring streams for brook trout and other aquatic resources in the face of threats such as climate change and development. Deliverables from this project included models of stream temperature, stream flow, and brook trout occurrence for headwaters of the Northeast, including projections of the potential effects of climate change. The investigators worked closely with decision-makers such as state water resource agencies to ensure the tools are useful.
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Fuller, Steven
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North Atlantic LCC Science Delivery Coordinator
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