Setting a Course for a Sustainable Landscape

1. Setting a Course for a Sustainable Landscape

2. Results of efforts to engage the Cultural Resource Stakeholder Community Initial work toward integrating cultural resources into LCC work Next steps

3. Common Ground • 89 million acres • Over 18,000 miles of shoreline • (calculated from the NOAA Medium Resolution Digital Vector Shoreline • 92% private land • Temperature Increase • Sea Level Rise • increase in urban area • (120% by 2050) • Visit our website for more info: www.southatlanticlcc.org

4. Common Ground in our Mission Mission: Create a shared blueprint for landscape conservation actions that sustain natural and cultural resources Blueprint Definition: An interactive, living plan that describes the places and actions needed to meet the SALCC’s conservation objectives in the face of future change.

5. Common Ground in Goals Provide support for partners’ conservation investment decisions Facilitate collaboration between interested South Atlantic partnership organizations to maximize conservation investment Promote data integration and sharing of landscape level data sets Evaluate and report progress toward creating a South Atlantic blueprint useful to partners

6. Engaging the Cultural Resource Community Met with National Park Service Southeast Region Cultural Resources team. Held a workshop with State Historic Preservation Offices. Invited all these organizations to a meeting to report on our engagement efforts and set direction Met with the Catawba Indian Nation. Attended Gullah Geechee Management Plan Roll-out meeting.

7. Proposed Role of the South Atlantic LCC Promote and educate about the sense of place. Apply and share data about the threats on the landscape. Promote the preservation of traditional ecological knowledge. • Connect, facilitate, and develop Positive partnerships • (natural+cultural= landscape conservation).

8. Proposed Ways to collaborate There should not be a distinction between natural and cultural resources. • Form coalitions where important natural and cultural resources come together on the land. • Bring together outdoor recreation and historic resource tourism.

9. Help to Conserve… Important Cultural Landscapes Battlefields Rural Farms Rice Fields Longleaf Pine Natural Resources for living cultures Clean Water Longleaf Sweetgrass Clay Huntable Species Shellfish

10. Some early steps • Apply and share data about the threats on the landscape to identify cultural resources that are particularly threatened by urbanization, sea level rise, and other risk factors that arise from climate change like wildfire risk. • Integrated cultural resource data from a diversity of cultures into SALCC conservation planning models. • Density of archaeological sites • Gullah Geechee National Cultural Heritage Corridor • National Register of Historic Places

11. Recently Completed Project:Threatened Cultural Resources • Literature Review of how climate change affects cultural resources • Piloted a predictive model for the state of South Carolina which highlighted both specific cultural resources and geographic areas of the site most threatened by some of the factors of climate change

12. Next Steps 2013 • Identify and facilitate participation from a broad cultural resources community (State and displaced Tribes, non-profits). • Develop a cultural resources conservation approach for the Blueprint. • Work with individual data managers to integrate the Conservation Planning Atlas into existing cultural resource online GIS data sets.

13. Socioeconomics

14. Incorporating Social Vulnerability Into Conservation Planning Social Vulnerability Index • 30 socioeconomic variables indicating uneven capacity for preparedness and response to hazards • Race • Wealth • Elderly • Hispanic • Special needs • Native American • Service Industry Employment Vulnerability

15. Ecosystem Service Science

16. How are E.S. Related to Conservation? Ecosystem Services.

17. Question to Team: How can Ecosystem Services be Used to Further the Mission of the South Atlantic LCC? • Science • Understand links between urban growth, transportation, development, agriculture, and ecosystem services. • Figure out what makes land owners manage responsibly • Look at equity of distribution of Ecosystem services • Application • Sell water filtration services to municipalities. • Guide prioritization for restoration and conservation. • Define adaptation – the actions that need to be taken. • Use Ecosystem Services to drive planning and policy frameworks, determine how to integrate ES into current processes. • Develop information database about ongoing ES projects in SALCC. • Local Planning for best use of resources. • Promote Conservation Investment • Use recreation to sell conservation • Promote property values (2) • Make transparent the value of natural resources to our economy • Figure out how to use ecosystem services to facilitate investment in conservation actions coming out of the blueprint. • Influence legislation. • Set up carbon sequestration. • Increase well-being and safety (2) • Stakeholders (Investors?) include: utilities, local governments, planners, Red Cross, FEMA

18. Next Socioeconomic Team Meeting:Focus on Conservation Investment • Use Ecosystem Services to Promote Conservation Investment What are people willing to pay for? What motivates compatible landuse? Where do existing investments come from? How can we generate additional investment?

19. Conservation Investment Over Time (Acres) SC NC FL GA

20. Conservation Investment Over Time (Dollars) NC SC FL GA

21. Conservation InvestmentPrivate, Local, and Federal Conservation Investment by State Acres Dollars *No Data Available for VA

22. Conservation InvestmentTypes of Funds for Conservation Millions of Dollars (Annual Snapshot – any known year 2005 – present)

23. Relative Funding SourcesSate Directed Federal Grants Millions of Dollars (Annual Snapshot – any known year 2005 – present)

24. Average Annual Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality Funds Over Time • Intended to help meet CAA requirements • Amount is set aside every year • States have four years to spend it • If a state accumulates 1.35 billion in their account, ½ can be used for other purposes Action ? 1994 • Work with Regulators to Plug the holes? • Demonstrate how conservation mitigates air pollution (ecosystem service)? 2000 2013 Action ? 2014 Funds may be used for transportation projects likely to contribute to the attainment or maintenance of a national ambient air quality standard, with a high level of effectiveness in reducing air pollution, and be included in the Metropolitan Planning Organization's (MPO's) current transportation plan and transportation improvement program (TIP) or the current state transportation improvement program (STIP)

25. Other Routes to Conservation? Turn the wheel of poverty by Document Traditional Ecological Knowledge Document local ecological assets (ecosystem services) Talk with the community, hear their ideas Work with conservation organizations to both conserve and promote the local economy Work to restore sustainable small business activities that can be supported by the assets and local knowledge Local wellbeing + land = long term decisionmaking and reduced risk of development • In depth conversation with Mikki Sager (The Conservation Fund) • Award winner for demonstrated track record of pairing conservation with economic development in poor rural communities.

26. Incorporating Social Vulnerability Into Conservation Planning Social Vulnerability Index • 30 socioeconomic variables indicating uneven capacity for preparedness and response to hazards • Race • Wealth • Elderly • Hispanic • Special needs • Native American • Service Industry Employment Vulnerability Where does the blueprint overlap with areas with high poverty or high vulnerability?

27. Other Routes to Conservation? Turn the wheel of poverty by Document Traditional Ecological Knowledge Document local ecological assets (ecosystem services) Talk with the community, hear their ideas Work with conservation organizations to both conserve and promote the local economy Work to restore sustainable small business activities that can be supported by the assets and local knowledge Local wellbeing + land = long term decisionmaking and reduced risk of development

28. Mitigation • Met with: • Environmental Bank and Exchange (Norton Webster) • Willamette Partnership (Training in Conservation Mitigation) • Wildlands (Wayne White) • How can the South Atlantic LCC work with the mitigation banking industry? • Incentivize Collaboration • Streamline approval of banks that meet your priorities. • Provide us with the science or policy that says we can get more credit for working where you need.

29. Drinking Water: One Ecosystem Service that’s not Free • Drinking Water is a clear standout for setting up “Payments for Ecosystem Services” or “conservation investment for clean water” schemes. • Providing a safe and reliable source of drinking water is a critical concern for all communities across the United States, particularly those confronting rapid population growth and development pressures. As communities experience losses of undeveloped land, they also may be at risk for compromising their water supplies. To address these challenges, communities are turning to a strategy that was popular a century ago – land conservation • Broad-based public support • Usually requires partnering between water utilities, local, state, federals, and non-profits

30. Next Steps • Present conservation finance data for consideration by the Socioeconomics Team to identify and provide the steering committee. • Actions to promote conservation finance • Actions to support compatible landuse • Actions to incentivize collaboration with mitigation banks