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Designing Sustainable Landscapes Workshop #3

When Oct 23, 2012
from 08:00 AM to 04:30 PM
Where Northampton, MA
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Contact Phone 413-253-8492
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A foundational project of the North Atlantic LCC is known as Designing Sustainable Landscapes.  The purpose of this project is to assess the capability of current and potential future landscapes in the North Atlantic LCC geographic area to provide integral ecosystems and suitable habitat for wildlife, and provide guidance for strategic habitat conservation decisions.  The first phase of this project is to develop and test the approach in three pilot watersheds including the Kennebec watershed in Maine, as well as the middle tributaries of the Connecticut River watershed in Massachusetts, Vermont and New Hampshire and the Pocomoke and Nanticoke River Watersheds in Maryland and Delaware.

Workshop Purpose: The purpose of these workshops is to familiarize partners with the science and tools that have been developed for these watersheds and to get feedback on how tools can be designed to best help with relevant conservation decisions including land protection, land use, ecological restoration and land management.

Workshop Goals: The goals are to get your feedback on how tools can be designed to best help conservation managers with relevant conservation decisions that they are making.  In addition to getting your feedback at this workshop, we are hoping that partners will be willing to provide ongoing guidance over the next few years to help ensure that this project is useful and relevant in decision making.  The project is now being expanded from the pilot areas in the North Atlantic LCC to the entire Northeast Region.

For more information on the products developed by the University of Massachusetts Amherst as part of this project, please visit their website: http://www.umass.edu/landeco/research/nalcc/nalcc.html.

Participating in the Workshop: There will be three full-day (8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.) live video broadcasts of these pilot area workshops on these dates:

Tuesday October 9 for the Kennebec Watershed pilot area in Maine. Click here for the agenda.
Tuesday October 16 for the Pocomoke and Nanticoke River Watersheds pilot area in Maryland and Delaware. Click here for the agenda.
Tuesday October 23 for the middle tributaries of the Connecticut River watershed in Massachusetts, southern New Hampshire and southern Vermont. Click here for the agenda.

These workshps will be broadcast on the internet. You will be able to view the presentation by clicking this link http://www.livestream.com/r5broadcasts or for closed captioning, please use this link http://www.ccproductions.com/ccp_streaming.asp?event=FWS-R5

If you have questions about the broadcasts, please contact Megan Nagel (megan_nagel@fws.gov). If you have questions about this project or the North Atlantic LCC, please contact Scott Schwenk (william_schwenk@fws.gov) or Andrew Milliken (andrew_milliken@fws.gov).

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