California Landscape Conservation Cooperative Nov 17, 2011 Debra Schlafmann CA LCC Coordinator
DOI Executive Order 3289 Sept 2009 Department-wide approach applying scientific tools to increase understanding of CC on land, water, ocean, fish & wildlife, cultural heritage resources The Energy and Climate Change Council Climate Science Centers Landscape Conservation Cooperatives
What are 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 communications support on a landscape scale Links science with conservation delivery
Why LCCs? Need for better coordination of science and resource managers across jurisdictions Need for integrated climate and land use data to create spatially-explicit, landscape-scale conservation design Need for easier access to information and data, data standards and common language Need for common goals and flexible decisionmaking that adjusts with new information
23 LCCs Nationwide
9 Funded in 2010
Scope of CA LCC
Steering Committee Bureau of Reclamation Fish and Wildlife Service National Park Service National Resource Conservation Service NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service US Forest Service US Geological Survey CA Department of Fish and Game CA Department of Water Resources
Steering Committee CA Coastal Conservancy Conservation Biology Institute Joint Venture PRBO Conservation Science Southwest Climate Science Alliance The Nature Conservancy
Governance
California LCC Goals Foster collaboration and integration of science and management. Support development of technical products for natural resource management. Facilitate information acquisition, interpretation, translation, exchange and availability. Communicate information within and outside the LCC Community.
Accomplishments Development of goals and charter defined Steering Committee and CA LCC Alliance Funded 25 projects for over $2 million dollars and leveraged twice that amount by project partners Hosted numerous workshops and events to bring people together
Project Products Species and 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
Project Products Pacific Coastal Fog: Using Data Assimilation Techniques to Develop Ecologically Relevant Fog Data Sets, Phase I Alicia Torregrosa, USGS Partners: University of Washington; University of California Santa Cruz; National Park Service Climate Adaptation Commons Deanne DiPietro, Sonoma Ecology Center Partners: UC Davis Information Center for the Environment; PRBO Conservation Science Sea-Level Rise Modeling Across the California Salt Marsh Gradient for Resource Managers: Evaluation of Methodology John Takekawa, USGS Partners: North Pacific LCC; USFWS Inventory and Monitoring Program; NOAA National Estuary Research Reserves, Pacific Coast; San Diego NWR; San Francisco Bay NWR; San Francisco Bay JV; South Bay Salt Pond Restoration Project; UC Davis
Next Steps What is our long-term strategy? What are the CA LCC conservation objectives? What are the management needs? What else do we want to accomplish? How can we be adaptive?
www.californialcc.org