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Rebecca Fris Science Coordinator

Presentation on the California Landscape Conservation Cooperative FGC3/CMCC meeting December 3, 2010. Rebecca Fris Science Coordinator. What you should learn (there’s a test). Why Landscape Conservation Cooperatives? What are they? What will they do? What’s going on in California?

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Rebecca Fris Science Coordinator

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  1. Presentation on the California Landscape Conservation CooperativeFGC3/CMCC meetingDecember 3, 2010 Rebecca Fris Science Coordinator

  2. What you should learn (there’s a test) Why Landscape Conservation Cooperatives? • What are they? • What will they do? • What’s going on in California? • What are next steps for the California LCC?

  3. Strategic Plan for Climate Change Rising to the Challenge – Strategic Plan for responding to accelerating climate change • Adaptation • Landscape Conservation Cooperatives • Mitigation • Engagement

  4. Landscape Conservation Cooperatives • Provide science support on a geographic landscape scale • Self-directed public-private partnerships that inform management actions to reduce climate change impacts on fish, wildlife, and habitats • Links science with conservation delivery

  5. Landscape Conservation Cooperatives WHAT IS THE PROBLEM? • Lack coordination of science and resource managers within and across agencies/organizations… --need integrated information at a level land managers can use • Lack a landscape scale perspective… -- need integrated climate, land cover, and land use data to create spatially- explicit, landscape-scale conservation design

  6. Landscape Conservation Cooperatives WHAT IS THE PROBLEM? • Lack communication network to coordinate and exchange complex information… • Need easier access to information and data, data standards and common language • Lack unified adaptive management framework…. • need common goals and flexible decision-making that adjusts with new information

  7. Question 1: Which of the following are FALSE about LCCs? • Self-directed public-private partnerships that inform management actions to reduce climate change impacts on fish, wildlife, and habitats • Develop jointly established conservation objectives • Provide science and technology support on a landscape scale • Provide all GIS services for local groups

  8. Question 1: Which of the following are FALSE about LCCs? d. Provide all GIS services for local groups LCCs provide science and resources to support landscape-scale conservation and support tool development and may make tools available via the web. They will not provide all GIS services for local efforts.

  9. Question 2: Which of the following are TRUE for LCCs ? • They are replacements for existing organizations, partnerships, and cooperatives. • They’re focused exclusively on climate change. • c. They are regulatory. • d. They are granting programs.

  10. Question 2: Which of the following are True for the LCCs ? None – they’re all FALSE • We work closely with and support existing organizations, partnerships, and cooperatives. • We focus on climate change and other landscape scale stressors (e.g. invasive species). • We are NOT regulatory. • We are NOT a granting program. We had funds last fiscal year and have funds this fiscal year to partner on projects of importance to the CA LCC.

  11. Question 3: TRUE or FALSE? The CA LCC is led solely by federal agencies.

  12. Question 3: FALSE The CA LCC is a science-management partnership among state and federal agencies, non-governmental organizations and others.

  13. CA LCC Governance • INTERIM Steering Committee – 18 members • Federal and State BLM CA Resources Agency BOR CA Dept. Water Resources NPS CA Dept. Fish and Game NOAA Fisheries US Forest Service USFWS USGS

  14. CA LCC Governance • INTERIM Steering Committee – 18 members • Other organizations University of CA Sacramento State Central Valley Joint Venture Defenders of Wildlife Ducks Unlimited PRBO Conservation Science SF Bay Joint Venture The Nature Conservancy

  15. Staffing for the CA LCC • CA LCC Coordinator – Debra Schlafmann. FWS • CA LCC Science Coordinator - Rebecca Fris,FWS • CA LCC Landscape Ecologist, USGS • Next position to fill – Public Affairs Specialist • Other Support Staff TBD = GIS specialist?, data manager?, others

  16. CA LCC Office Sacramento State University Modoc Hall – 2nd Floor • CA LCC staff • FWS Refuge I&M Program Coordinator (Karen Laing) and staff (biologist, hydrologist, data manager) • 2 USGS Landscape Ecologists (1 starts in Jan) • MOVE IN –January/February

  17. Question 4: TRUE or FALSE? The CA LCC covers all of California?

  18. Question 4: FALSE California is part of 4 different LCCs: • California LCC • North Pacific LCC • Great Basin LCC • Desert LCC

  19. Geographic Areas for LCCs

  20. 9 LCCs Established in 2010 • Arctic • California • Great Northern • Great Plains • Gulf Coastal Plains & Ozarks • North Atlantic • Pacific Islands • Plains & Prairie Potholes • South Atlantic

  21. CA LCC Project Deliverables • 11 multi-partner projects funded this year • Species / habitat vulnerability assessments • Application of downscaled models effects on fish and wildlife • Monitoring protocols and programs • Access to data sets and web-based decision support tools

  22. Recent CA LCC Activities • USGS Workshop on modeling sea level rise effects on intertidal habitat (Oct 26-27) • Workshop on climate change research and implications for biodiversity conservation in the Bay Area (Nov 1) • Support for CDFG “Bridging the Gap” Workshop connecting climate change scientists and resource managers (Nov 3)

  23. Question 5: TRUE OR FALSE? The CA LCC will be the clearinghouse for all data related to landscape conservation planning.

  24. Question 5: FALSE The role of the CA LCC in data management has not been determined. A data/informatics subcommittee will discuss how the CA LCC will provide value added and coordinate with existing platforms.

  25. Key Areas of Discussion for Data Mgmt. • National discussion • Sharing data priorities with other LCCs • Data discovery – what’s available • Data integration and processing • Archiving and serving data • New science information needs • California LCC Data/informatics subcommittee • Existing resources • Data/informatics needs • Data/informatics gaps – priorities • Policies on data availability and sharing

  26. Southwest Climate Science Center • It will be housed at the University of Arizona • Other Universities in the consortium: • University of California, Davis; • University of California, Los Angeles; • Desert Research Institute, Reno; • University of Colorado, Boulder; • Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego. • Provide large-scale information, forecasts, models, and tools to the LCCs

  27. Question 6: TRUE or FALSE The CA LCC has a website that provides an interactive GIS tool.

  28. Question 6: FALSE The CA LCC website is currently informational. As the program develops, decisions will be made on other services to provide via the website. CalforniaLCC.org

  29. Question 7: Which of the following are NOT next steps for the CA LCC? • Finalize Purpose and Goals with Interim Subcommittee • Identify and engage partners for the entire LCC area (Sierras, Central coast and So.Cal.) • Purchase new servers for any program working on climate change. • Develop Strategic Plan/Priorities for 2011

  30. Question 7: Which of the following are NOT next steps for the CA LCC? c. Purchase new servers for any program working on climate change.

  31. How you can be involved • Help identify ways the CA LCC can support ongoing data efforts • Identify and work with CA LCC partners to forward common goals • Participate in future subcommittees/workshops • January 25 – San Diego • January 26 – Los Angeles • Stay informed via website

  32. Questions / Comments? For more information: CaliforniaLCC.org Rebecca Fris (916) 414-6558

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