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- American Fisheries Society Annual Meeting 2015
- The Oregon Chapter and Western Division of the American Fisheries Society cordially invite you to attend the 145th Annual Meeting that will be convened in Portland from 16 to 20 August 2015. A diverse program, unconstrained by a single theme, will feature the latest scientific knowledge, management applications, policy implications, and educational pursuits related to freshwater and marine resources.
- National Fish Passage Program
- Hosted within the Fisheries program of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service since 1999, the National Fish Passage Program (NFPP) is a voluntary, non-regulatory initiative that provides funding and technical assistance to reconnect aquatic habitat by removing or bypassing barriers.
- Atlantic Coastal Fish Habitat Partnership
- The Atlantic Coastal Fish Habitat Partnership is a coast-wide collaborative effort to accelerate the conservation of habitat for native Atlantic coastal, estuarine-dependent, and diadromous fishes. We are a Partnership consisting of resource managers, scientists and professionals representing 30 different state, federal, tribal, non-governmental and other entities. We work in areas stretching from Maine to the Florida Keys, and from the headwaters of coastaly draining rivers to the edge of the continental shelf, with a focus in estuarine environments.
- Eastern Brook Trout Joint Venture
- In 2005, in recognition of the need to address regional and range-wide threats to brook trout, a group of public and private entities formed the Eastern Brook Trout Joint Venture (EBTJV) to halt the decline of brook trout and restore fishable populations of this iconic species. The EBTJV directs locally-driven efforts that build partnerships to improve fish habitat, working to ensure healthy, fishable brook trout populations throughout their historic eastern United States range. Please see the link below for funding opportunities.
- Designing for Aquatic Organism Passage at Road-Stream Crossings
- The USDA Forest Service offers training workshops targeted at civil engineers, geotechnical engineers, hydrologists, geomorphologists, ecologists, biologists, and geologists. This is a 4.5 day workshop. Instructors present the Forest Service’s stream simulation method, an ecosystem-based approach for designing and constructing a channel through the road-stream crossing structure that reestablishes physical and ecological continuity along the stream corridor.
- Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP)
- The Environmental Quality Incentives Program is a voluntary conservation program from the Natural Resources Conservation Service. It supports production agriculture and environmental quality as compatible goals. Through the Environmental Quality Incentives Program, agricultural producers, owners of non-industrial private forestland, and Tribes may receive financial and technical help with structural and management conservation practices on agricultural land. Eligible land includes cropland, rangeland, pastureland, non-industrial private forestland and other farm or ranch lands.
- Steering Committee strategizes for putting LCC science in hands of practitioners
- Four years after their first meeting, members and partners of the North Atlantic LCC met to review progress, and discuss next steps for conservation design, science delivery and communications.
- Presentation: Core Team Meeting, November 2014
- Presentation by Kevin McGarigal (UMass) with updates on the Designing Sustainable Landscapes project for the Core Team Meeting
- Document: Remaining Questions and Goals/Objectives
- Handout for the November Core Team Meeting
- Momentum for collaborative conservation grows at gathering of regional conservation partnerships
- During an annual gathering of agencies, non-profits, land trusts and organizations involved in regional conservation, North Atlantic LCC staff and partners showcased projects that have fostered collaboration around shared conservation goals.
- Summary of Action Items, Highlights and Discussion
- Summary of Action Items, Highlights and Discussion from the October 28-20, 2014 North Atlantic LCC Steering Committee meeting
- Document: Summary/Notes from Core Team Meeting
- Annotations of slides and notes from discussion during the October 2014 Core Team Meeting
- NALCC-supported research published in Journal of Animal Ecology
- How do changes in stream flow and temperature affect brook trout populations? Researchers addressed this question to get at a major challenge for ecologists: modeling how populations respond to environmental change.
- Adding depth to aquatic data in the Northeast Region
- By providing a standard mapping classification for lakes and ponds, the Nature Conservancy's Northeast Lakes and Ponds Classification System will help ensure more effective conservation of aquatic ecosystems in the region.
- Sandy Resilience Projects
- The North Atlantic LCC is working with the Department of the Interior, its bureaus, and the broader conservation community to coordinate Hurricane Sandy resiliency science projects, identify science needs and help guide future restoration investments. This includes a portion of Interior’s recently announced $162 million investment in 45 projects throughout the region impacted by Sandy, as well as science projects funded previously by DOI.
- Agenda: Connecticut River Pilot Meeting, 11-21-2014
- Agenda, Handouts and Presentation for November 21st Core Team Meeting in Hadley, Massachusetts from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
- Document: CT River Watershed Species Weighting Matrix, Revised 09-16-2014
- Updated species weighting matrix
- Hurricane Sandy Tidal Marsh Resiliency Workshop from Dec 08, 2014 10:00 AM to Dec 09, 2014 04:00 PM — Fish and Wildlife Service Northeast Regional Office,
- Exchange information and learning from the first year of Hurricane Sandy tidal marsh resiliency related science projects, and coordinate efforts for the next two years towards common outcomes.
- As innovative landscape design takes shape, partners focus on next steps
- Partners in the Connecticut River Watershed Landscape Conservation Design Pilot are thinking big picture even as they make detailed decisions about species and habitat goals for the watershed.
- Atlantic Salmon Recovery Proposal Guidelines
- (Note: This is not a funding proposal). This is an interim template for proposing Atlantic salmon related projects within the Gulf of Maine DPS. Proposals may be required if a project proponent is requesting Atlantic salmon to conduct a study, or requesting agency support or resources. The GOM DPS is divided into 3 Salmon Habitat Recovery Units (SHRUs). Each SHRU is managed by a team under the Atlantic salmon program's Collaborative Management Strategy (CMS). Project proponents should first discuss their project with the appropriate SHRU Team or, if a project is not specific to a SHRU, the project proponent should first contact that CMS's administrative coordinator. For information on project proposals contact: Dan Kircheis at Dan.Kircheis@noaa.gov (CMS administrative Coordinator)
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