Resources

This report provides a high-level summary of the fundamentals of wildlife corridors and ecological connectivity. It clarifies the terms used to describe connectivity; explains and provides tangible examples of corridors and linkages and how they work; describes the various methods, tools and models for identifying key connectivity linkages and wildlife corridors; and provides examples of supportive policies that may be replicated or expanded to other jurisdictions.

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 Tribes. It is designed to initiate collectively-beneficial climate change impact mitigation and adaptation solutions.

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.

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.

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 uncertain, climate.

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 and landscape information relevant to the Great Northern geography.

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 does not cover Administrative action taken on behalf of federal legislation.

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 those that ultimately were passed.

Convened by the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy and the Center for Natural Resources and Environmental Policy at The University of Montana, the dialogue participants sought to synthesize what we know about large landscape conservation and to identify the most important needs as we move forward. They also generated and provide a link to a list of nearly 200 examples of large landscape conservation.

The purpose of this report is to provide an up-to-date review of the extent to which climate change is occurring in the Y2Y region, and to assess the appropriateness of the Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative’s vision and programs as a response to climate disruption.