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Practitioners' Network for Large Landscape Conservation | July 2016
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A MESSAGE FROM OUR CO-CHAIR
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I am pleased to report that the Practitioners' Network continues to grow by all measures - new projects, new partners, and new feedback that we are successfully connecting the large landscape conservation (LLC) community to important resources and to each other.
Stay tuned in coming months for updates on our major initiatives:
- Release of our LLC primer this fall
- Launch of our federal policy initiative
- Survey on large landscape programs
- Enhanced outreach
- National peer exchange program.
In addition to the arrival of our new Coordinator, Emily Bateson, we have recently hired a part-time Communications Specialist, Jon Peterson, and welcomed a number of conservation leaders to our Coordinating Committe
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I am delighted to
be serving now as Co-Chair of the Network with Bob Bendick, Director of The Nature Conservancy's Gulf of Mexico Program. I am inspired by the important conservation work underway from coast to coast and look forward to learning more through your
participation and feedback in the coming months.
Julie Regan, PNLLC Co-Chair
Tahoe Regional Planning Agency External Affairs Chief
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Your Input Needed: Help Us Develop A Peer Exchange Program!
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The Practitioners' Network is developing a Peer Exchange Program to provide meaningful opportunities for large landscape conservation practitioners to interact with each other. Would you like to participate in a large landscape conservation exchange with initiatives in your own geography or connect with practitioners from other parts of the country? Are there specific issues that you would like the Peer Exchange to focus on? What about a peer learning leadership academy or other approaches to peer exchange? Please fill out our brief survey no later than July 15th with your ideas on how this program can be structured to best advance your work.
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LARGE LANDSCAPE CONSERVATION NEWS
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Transboundary Conservation Effort Receives National Recognition
The Roundtable on the Crown of the Continent received an inaugural Climate Adaptation Leadership Award from the National Fish, Wildlife, and Plant Climate Adaptation Strategy's Joint Implementation Working Group.
The award celebrates the Roundtable's three years of Adaptive Management Initiative (AMI) projects, which supported the work of many stakeholders across the 18 million acre Crown of the Continent region in Montana, Alberta, and British Columbia, and catalyzed a landscape-scale and collaborative approach to addressing climate change
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Special Issue Focuses on "Network Governance and Large Landscape Conservation"
The six articles of the Special Issue explore the process of creating and effectively maintaining partnerships and cooperative relationships amongst a network of diverse partners as a key component of successful large landscape conservation
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Secretary Jewell Offers Vision for the Next 100 Years of Conservation
With the National Park Service celebrating its centennial in 2016, U.S. Secretary of Interior Sally Jewell offered remarks at the National Geographic Society in April to frame a vision for actions to build upon America's rich conservation legacy and pass on healthy public lands and waters to the next generation.
In calling for a "course correction" for conservation, Secretary Jewell included as a central component a call for implementing smart, landscape-level planning to support healthy ecosystems and sustainable development.
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| Click above to watch Secretary Jewell's full remarks |
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Research Highlights Landscape Connectivity Losses Due to Sea Level Rise and Land Use Change
A
new paper
in
Animal Conservation
focuses on the isolating effects of different patterns of habitat loss and fragmentation on species and ecosystems.
The findings suggest that future urban development and sea level rise in the Southeastern United States will cause a dramatic reduction in the number of available core habitat areas and high quality landscape connectivity opportunities.
The research, funded by the
South Atlantic Landscape Conservation Cooperative
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"Connect the Connecticut" Hailed as 'Major Conservation Vision'
"Connect the Connecticut" has gained attention for its innovative use of large datasets to inform and inspire collaborative conservation at the landscape scale. The initiative brings diverse partners together around a shared science-based conservation vision in order to help them prioritize and coordinate land conservation efforts across the four-state Connecticut River watershed.
This initiative was spearheaded by the North Atlantic Landscape Conservation Cooperative. Explore the "Connect the Connecticut" website for more information.
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Regional Conservation Partnership Network Launches Website
The Regional Conservation Partnership (RCP) Network in New England and New York has developed a new website to help members share information, exchange ideas and resources, and network with others. RCPNetwork.org is built using Ning, a platform that allows organizations to create custom social networks.
Visit the website to become a member or to glean ideas on how to set up networking sites in your own geography.
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Rural Voices for Conservation Coalition Issue Paper Released on Large Landscape Conservation
The "Working Across All Lands" Issue Paper, published by the Rural Voices for Conservation Coalition in May 2016, highlights an 'all lands, all hands' approach to collaborative land management. Explore the issue paper here.
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New Report Reviews Recent Policy for Wildlife Corridors and Connectivity Conservation
The Center for Large Landscape Conservation has published a new report that compiles federal and state policies from 2012 to present that have direct or indirect implications for wildlife corridors and ecological connectivity conservation. Explore the report in detail here.
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Film Explores Science Behind the Need for Large Landscape Conservation
Wild Ways: Corridors of Life, a 60-minute documentary film, was created for PBS's science show NOVA to explore and explain to the public the science behind the need for large landscape conservation to protect wildlife.
The film highlights the Yellowstone to Yukon (Y2Y) region as well as the savannahs of Africa to explain the challenges of protecting iconic wildlife in our increasingly developed and fragmented landscapes.
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| Wild Ways Trailer and Prologue |
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UPCOMING EVENTS & CONFERENCES
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July 17 - 20, 2016
North American Congress for Conservation Biology Biennial Conference
Theme: Communicating Science for Conservation Action
Madison, WI
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September 1-10, 2016
The IUCN World Conservation Congress
Theme: Planet at a Crossroads
Honolulu, HI
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September 11-14, 2016
The 6th Biennial Northeastern Transportation & Wildlife Conference
Lake Placid, NY
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September 13-18, 2016
Hands Across Borders: A Workshop for Transboundary Conservation Practitioners
Glacier National Park, MT
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September 28 - 30, 2016
Land Trust Alliance Rally
Minneapolis, MN
Note: The Practitioners' Network is hosting two events at the Rally:
- A large landscape conservation breakfast;
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October 7, 2016
Scaling Up: A Symposium on New Strategies for Large Landscape Conservation
Salem, MA
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October 13-14, 2016
The 7th Annual Conference of the Roundtable on the Crown of the Continent
Fernie, BC
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November 16, 2016
The Regional Conservation Partnerships Network Gathering: "What it takes to advance regional conservation across New England and New York"
Nashua, NH
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Webinar on Road-Stream Crossing
s and Aquatic Connectivity
The North Atlantic Aquatic Connectivity Collaborative recently hosted a webinar titled, A Coordinated Effort to Evaluate the Effects of Road-Stream Crossings on Aquatic Connectivity.
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The National Park Service's Scaling Up Webinar Mini-Series Continues
July 13, 3ET/12 PT - U.S. Forest Service's Landscape Conservation Efforts
August 17, 3ET/12PT - The Conservation Fund
September 7, 3ET/ 12PT - Mitigation Banking
September 21, 3ET/12PT - 106 Undertakings
October 24, 3ET/12PT - Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative
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THE PRACTITIONERS' NETWORK FOR LARGE LANDSCAPE CONSERVATION
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The Practitioners' Network for Large Landscape Conservation is an alliance of professionals and citizens working to support and advance the field of conservation at the landscape scale.
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PNLLC's LinkedIn Group
Join the Network's LinkedIn group to connect with other practitioners, share resources, ask questions, and more!
Join the LinkedIn Group
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Case Statement
We've developed a
case statement that explains the Network and how to get involved! We invite you to take a look.
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Share Your News and Feedback
Please be in touch with your own news and information that we can include in our next bi-monthly e-newsletter.
The Network wants to provide meaningful resources and activities that advance your work - let us know how we are doing and how we can best help you advance large landscape conservation in your own geography.
Contact
Emily Bateson, Network Coordinator, with News and Feedback.
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