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Where People and Wildlife Intersect: Prioritizing Mitigation of Road Impacts on Wildlife Connectivity

This report seeks to provide decision support in answering the crucial question of where to mitigate roads to yield the greatest positive impact for wildlife and people, creates an index of road risk to wildlife based on roadside carcass data, details specific roles that diverse stakeholders can play in the mitigation process, and highlight opportunities

A Landscape of Connectivity: Priority Corridors for Biodiversity and Communities in a Time of Climate Change

This report introduces high priority wildlife habitat regions in the United States, in addition to the major wildlife corridors that connect them.

Challenges and Opportunities for Large Landscape-Scale Management in a Shifting Climate: The Importance of Nested Adaptation Responses Across Geospatial and Temporal Scales

Drawing from the Center’s experience in collaborative forest restoration and management, this report examines the challenges and opportunities relating to climate adaptation implementation and larger scale conservation by focusing on specific lessons learned from a landscape-scale, on-the-ground project within the Yellowstone to Yukon region.

Climate Change, Wine and Conservation

Shifting patterns of agricultural production in response to climate change has received little attention as a potential impact pathway for ecosystems. This article demonstrates that on a global scale, the impacts of climate change on viticultural suitability are substantial, leading to possible conservation conflicts in land use and freshwater ecosystems.

Large Landscape Conservation in the Rocky Mountain West: An Inventory and Status Report

This inventory and status report is part of an ongoing initiative to create and expand the Practitioners’ Network for Large Landscape Conservation throughout North America. It may also be used to promote, support, and advance large landscape conservation in the Rocky Mountain West.

CSKT Climate Change Adaptation Plan

The Confederated Salish & Kootenai Tribes (CSKT) Climate Change Strategic Plan represents an early step towards addressing the impacts of climate change on the Flathead Reservation in Montana. The purpose of this initiative is to improve the Tribal community and Natural Resources Department’s resiliency by effectively informing climate change impact planning decisions made by the

The Adaptation for Conservation Targets (ACT) Framework: A Tool for Incorporating Climate Change into Natural Resource Management

This article introduces the Adaption for Conservation Targets(ACT) Framework in consideration of the effects of climate change in the development of management actions for particular species, ecosystems and ecological functions. The ACT is presented as a practical tool for initiating adaptation planning, and for generating and communicating specific management interventions given an increasingly altered, yet

The Great Northern Landscape Conservation Cooperative Strategic Conservation Framework

This strategic conservation framework is intended to articulate the rationale, approach, and priorities for the Great Northern Landscape Conservation Cooperative (GNLCC) that reflects the unique geography and regional natural resource issues. The information presented in this document is summarized from background research on existing landscape initiatives (place-, issue-, or species-based) and other regionally summarized ecological

The Obama Administration’s Progress on Federal Policies for Wildlife Corridor and Ecological Connectivity Conservation: January 2009 through December 2012

This briefing summarizes policies that the Obama administration has completed to increase attention to conserving ecological connectivity in his first term in office. It includes policy initiatives, memoranda, orders, plans, strategies and other administrative avenues of promoting the conservation of both structural and functional connectivity. The focus of this summary is on administrative policy, it

Recent Progress on Wildlife Corridor and Ecological Connectivity Policy in the United States

Summarizes the increasing attention state and federal policy makers have given to the importance of maintaining ecological connectivity. It includes policy initiatives, memoranda, orders, plans, strategies and other administrative avenues of promoting the conservation of wildlife corridors. In addition to administrative efforts, it includes state and federal legislative efforts, both bills that were introduced and

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