Mary Mahaffy Science Coordinator North Pacific LCC

1. 2011 Salish Sea Ecosystem Conference Participating in the North Pacific Landscape Conservation Cooperative Mary Mahaffy Science Coordinator North Pacific LCC

2. Why Partnership Efforts? Report - Large Landscape Conservation: A Strategic Framework for Policy and Action McKinney, Scarlett & Kemmis, 2010 “…there is a gap in governance and a corresponding need to create informal and formal ways to work more effectively across boundaries.” Barriers to Landscape Conservation • Lack of scientific information • Lack of capacity to organize • Lack of a strategy to coordinate • Fragmented financial investments http://www.lincolninst.edu/pubs/1808_Large-Landscape-Conservation

3. Landscape Conservation Cooperatives (LCCs) Geographic Framework Total 22 LCCs

4. What Will LCCs Do? • Provide a framework for communication between resource managers and scientists/information providers • Facilitate approaches to complex conservation challenges such as climate change • Inform landscape-level conservation and resource management • Create a forum for sharing information and technology • Promote a common base for decisions 4

5. What Will LCCs NotDo? • Replace agency responsibilities • Supersede agency decision-making authorities • Initiate regulatory actions • Negate value/role of existing partnerships and cooperatives 5

6. North Pacific LCC • Includes: • 4 States • 2 Provinces • >100 Tribes/First Nations • Extends over 2,200 miles (3,500 km) from north to south • Coastline: 38,200 miles (61,500 km) • Area: 204,000 mi2 (530,000 km2) • Public lands: >75 % • Ocean Boundary - not defined Base Funded This Year - USFWS

7. Mission Statement The North Pacific Landscape Conservation Cooperative promotes development, coordination and dissemination of science to inform landscape-level conservation and sustainable resource management in the face of a changing climate and related stressors.

8. North Pacific Landscape Conservation Cooperative Steering Committee Federal (U.S. & B.C.), State, Provincial, Tribes/First Nations, Others ? Staff Coordinator Science Coordinator Likely Subcommittees Science/ Traditional Ecological Knowledge Subcommittee Tribal/First Nations Subcommittee Stakeholder Subcommittee Communications Subcommittee Possible Geographic Subcommittees

9. North Pacific LCC Actions Charter Steering Committee Framing Workshop: • Identified decision-makers/decisions • Identified stakeholders • Described key LCC objectives/outcomes of interest • Discussed key uncertainties • Initiated development of NPLCC governance and structure Next Steps: • Build on efforts started at Framing Workshop • Establish subcommittees • Identify gaps/science needs • Identify near-term science and information priorities

10. Climate Related Projects $800,000 – 11 Science Projects • Projections of Change across Landscapes • Vulnerability Assessments and Adaptation Planning • Modeling Species and Habitat Distributions • Information Synthesis and Dissemination $63,000 – Additional Efforts • Univ. Washington and Univ. Alaska, SE – synthesis existing research/tools • Support 3 regional climate science workshops http://www.fws.gov/nplcc

11. Conceptual Model Development • Identification: • Valued human, ecological, cultural resources • Existing stressors • Potential climate change impacts PUGET-GEORGIA BASIN LOWLANDS & WILLAMETTE VALLEY

12. Contact Information John Mankowski, Coordinator john_mankowski@fws.gov 360-534-9330 Mary Mahaffy, Science Coordinator mary_mahaffy@fws.gov 360-753-7763 http://www.fws.gov/nplcc