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- After years long "Envisioning" process, partners release comprehensive vision for Susquehanna River
- The Chesapeake Conservancy has released a vision document for conservation in the Susquehanna River watershed that synthesizes input from an in-depth community engagement campaign, identifies recommendations for addressing shared conservation priorities, and responds to a need for better data and tools.
- North Atlantic LCC Annual Report highlights conservation in action
- Our 2016 Annual Report highlights progress in priority areas identified by our partnership -- Aquatic Connectivity, Coastal and Community Resilience, At-Risk Species, Landscape Conservation Initiatives, and Science Delivery -- through stories showing how people are using data and tools to advance their work in conservation.
- Habitat inventories offer new perspective on North Carolina’s coast
- A feature story in Coastal Review Online -- a news service covering the North Carolina coastline -- highlights a recently completed project to inventory modifications to beach and tidal inlet habitats from Maine to North Carolina that is providing new information to managers in the coastal zone.
- Maine leads effort to streamline aquatic conservation with regional database
- Shared database gives partners in Maine a central repository for stream temperature data and new opportunities to use that information to identify management and restoration priorities.
- SWAP coordinators share updates from plans and ideas for collaborating
- During a three-day meeting in Amherst, Mass., State Wildlife Action Plan coordinators from 12 states looked for new opportunities to work together with plans better designed to foster regional collaboration.
- Kestrel Land Trust acquires 160 acres of "core area" in Massachusetts
- The new Buffam Woods Community Forest in Pelham, Mass., falls within the network of conservation priorities identified by the Connect the Connecticut landscape conservation design project.
- Climate data expands conservation horizons for Maine partnership
- With support from the Open Space Institute, a partnership of eight land trusts in Maine is building stronger relationships with its neighbors based on a foundation of the best data in the region.
- Looking at wetland restoration through the lens of resilience
- A new report released by partners at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Council on the Ocean and the Environmental Law Institute catalogs best practices for identifying and prioritizing wetland restoration efforts to optimize community risk reduction and resilience in the face of climate change.
- Bay Barometer shows measured progress in the Chesapeake
- The Chesapeake Bay Program has released the latest report on ecosystem health and restoration in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed.
- Town uses Connect the Connecticut to show regional significance of local aquatic resources
- The landscape conservation design for the Connecticut River watershed is helping bring attention to headwater habitat in Palmer, Massachusetts.
- New resource empowers communities in New York to protect natural assets
- The Wildlife Conservation Society Adirondack Program has developed a new gallery on Data Basin that provides access to the best available information in the region on locally occurring natural resources in the Empire State.
- Meet the new Coastal Resilience Coordinator
- Coastal geologist Bart Wilson comes to the North Atlantic LCC fresh off the experience of managing the restoration of a 4,000-acre salt marsh at Prime Hook National Wildlife Refuge in Delaware with funding from Hurricane Sandy.
- Gathering provides rallying cry for collaborative conservation, and a showcase for tools that can support a shared vision
- The annual Regional Conservation Partnerships (RCP) Gathering brought diverse conservation practitioners together to learn, share, and be inspired. Keynote speaker Chief Jason Weller of the Natural Resources Conservation Service praised attendees for their leadership in collaborative conservation.
- Canadian partners make headway on classification system to guide freshwater conservation
- A project to extend the Northeast aquatic habitat map across the Canadian border is fostering momentum for freshwater conservation among stakeholders working at different scales toward shared goals.
- Research on iPlover published in PLOS ONE
- Paper describes the testing, application, and efficacy of a smartphone application designed to collect data on piping plover habitat to feed into predictive models.
- NPS releases Coastal Adaptation Strategies Handbook
- A new National Park Service report co-edited by North Atlantic LCC Steering Committee member Amanda Babson summarizes the current state of climate adaptation in national parks, and identifies resources and approaches to help plan for and adapt to climate change in coastal areas.
- Staying Connected Initiative featured on public radio
- Vermont Public Radio highlights partnership effort to determine how wildlife interact with roads and other forms of development, and to preserve the most important linkages between key habitat areas.
- Steering Committee looks ahead through lens of regional design
- At the fall meeting in Lakeville, Conn., Steering Committee members were introduced to the first version of a regional landscape conservation design, and discussed next steps for putting the products into the hands of people in their organizations who can use them.
- Partnerships of scale: Symposium highlights need for collaboration in landscape conservation
- Regional, national, and international thought leaders and practitioners discussed "scaling up in conservation" in concept, and in practice, during a day-long symposium, in which Steering Committee member Amanda Babson shared how the North Atlantic LCC supports collaborative conservation.
- Connect the Connecticut makes the case for conservation in Eightmile River watershed
- Audubon Connecticut used data from the landscape conservation design to help justify funding a project as part of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ In Lieu Fee program, established to support mitigation projects in the state to enhance and preserve aquatic habitats.
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