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ABSTRACT: The Gulf Coastal Plains and Ozarks (GCPO LCC) is a 180-million-acre region that includes all of Arkansas and Mississippi and parts of 10 additional states spanning 5 major subgeographies: the Ozark Highlands, West Gulf Coastal Plain, East Gulf Coastal Plain, Mississippi Alluvial Valley, and Gulf Coast. The GCPO LCC Integrated Science Agenda establishes Strategic Habitat Conservation as the framework for accomplishing our mission to define, design, and deliver landscapes capable of sustaining natural and cultural resources now and into the future. The Agenda describes nine broadly defined habitats in terms of desired conditions for species of greatest conservation need as identified in the State Wildlife Action Plans. From 2014 to 2017, the GCPO LCC conducted research, consulted experts, and analyzed and processed geospatial datasets to produce peer-reviewed written drafts of Rapid Ecological Assessments for eight of our nine priority systems. From these we generated condition index maps for each system and developed those maps into a comprehensive Draft Conservation Blueprint 1.0 to guide resource allocation and support management decisions across the region. The Blueprint, the written assessments, and supporting datasets and maps are available for exporting from the online Conservation Planning Atlas managed by the Cooperative. This presentation will review the development of the Conservation Blueprint from the Rapid Ecological Assessments, and include a standardized assessment of the initial desired condition targets and data used, as well as some preliminary results regarding the amount of habitat in desired condition and other management and protection opportunities for each habitat type.
Tuesday October 31, 2017 8:15am - 8:30am EDT
McCreary