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Collaborative Landscape Conservation Planning and Delivery in the
NortheastJohn Kanter, NH Fish and Game
Northeast Fish and Wildlife Diversity Technical Committee
“I also doubt, as a matter of hindsight, whether anything but ultimate discredit can come to the wildlife movement if it encourages or participates in orgies of incontinent public
expenditures of half baked plans for wildlife betterment”Aldo Leopold
Landscape Conservation Cooperatives in the Northeast Region
Appalachian
Eastern Tallgrass Prairie and Big Rivers
North Atlantic
South Atlantic
Upper Midwest and Great Lakes0 190 38095 Miles
Northeast Region
NEAFWA (state Boundaries)
Landscape Conservation Cooperatives
Population Land Area (sq miles)
People/area
Maine 1,329,192 30,843 43.1New Jersey 8,864,590 7,354 1,195.5West Virginia
1,855,413 24,038 77.1
Northeast 72,445,315 229,802 305.5Montana 1,005,141 145,546 6.8
Region Dominated by Human UsesHuman population by county
Conservation in Transition• Unprecedented scale, pace and complexity
of resource management challenges– Habitat loss, fragmentation and degradation– Invasive species– Contaminants– Hydrologic impacts
• Accelerated climate change is magnifying impacts on water and land resources, agriculture and biological diversity
Major Challenge:
We cannot effectively or efficiently address these challenges by working aloneSo how do we organize our separate agencies, organizations and missions to collectively understand and address these challenges and uncertainty and achieve the conservation outcomes that society wants and expects from us?
RCN Program• The northeast states answer to that question
is to pool resources to address issues common to multiple states and State Wildlife Action Plans.
• In 2006 at and subsequent to a workshop in Albany (“Albany I”) sponsored by NFWF and Doris Duke, the states agreed to pool 4% of their State Wildlife Grant funding for Regional Conservation Needs (RCN).
• RCN program was developed by NEAFWA, the Wildlife Management Institute and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
• Annual process administered by WMI and involving NEAFWA administrators, technical committees and Directors
• First RFP was issued in 2007, 27 projects funded to date
rcngrants.org
Aligning NA LCC and NEAFWA• Co-location of meetings with NEAFWA• Synchronized annual LCC/RCN timeline • Grant administration through WMI• Common conservation framework & needs• Projects at Northeast Regional scale (across LCC
boundaries)• Joint efforts to develop regional information for
SWAP Updates
Developing a list of Regional Species of Conservation Concern
• Northeast regional list (Therres 1999) “replace” category 2 candidates
• Combined list of State Species of Greatest Conservation Need (Whitlock 2007)
• Northeast Fish and Wildlife Diversity CommitteeNE Partners in Amphibian and Reptile
Conservation, Partners in Flight
DRAFT RSGCN Screening Process
• 1. State identifies a list of SGCN based on State Level Screening Criteria
• 2. SGCN are compiled into Composite SGCN List• 3. Composite SGCN list is screened For regional
Responsibility• 4. Composite SGCN list is screened for regional
Conservation Need• 5. Need will be based on regional Conservation
Need Ranking Criteria (next steps)
Conservation Need= Regional Responsibility
States in need High Low
States in NE range
>50% of Range <50% of Range
Very High (>10 states) 1 2
High (7-10 states) 3 4
Moderate (4-6 states) 5
Low (3 states) 6
<3 states 7
538 Regional Species of Conservation Need
What order and what process will we use to address RSGCN?1)RCN Status Assessment
Wood turtle Brook floater
2)Review and Evaluation3)Preventing listing
New England cottontail
Northeast Regional List
My state’s list
Integrating RSGCN into Wildlife Action Plan Revisions
Wildlife Habitats
TNCNEAFWANALCC
• Number one priority action agreed to at Albany 1
Northeast Terrestrial Habitat Map
NE Regional Habitat Map
My State Map cut out
of the NE Regional
Map
Included in each Northeast state’s wildlife action plan
Northeast Highest Ranked
Habitats by Ecological Condition
My States Habitat
Map
Scaled rankingof my state
My State’s Map with My state’s Stuff
We agree that all states will insert these as they are completed
Appalachian Oak Pine Forest
APPALACHIAN OAK PINE FOREST
Northeast Regional Conservation Framework Workshop“Albany II”
June 14-16, 2011Crowne Plaza Hotel, Albany, New York
Hosted by
Northeast Association of Fish & Wildlife AgenciesNorth Atlantic Landscape Conservation Cooperative
Photo Credit: James Weliver/USFWS
Most importantly-
The Northeast Regional effort represents a partnership and a willingness of the partners to collectively and intentionally work in an organized fashion towards a larger landscape conservation vision