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5 The Landscape Conservation Cooperatives and Other Similar Federal Programs
5 The Landscape Conservation Cooperatives and Other Similar Federal Programs
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, and that judged the degree of similarity to the LCCs to be roughly have a focus on landscape conservation and/or adaptation to in the order presented in Table 5.2 and chose to concentrate climate change. The committee gave no further consideration its in-depth analysis on FWS's Joint Ventures, FWS's FHPs, to programs, including those within the U.S.
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19 FHPs (18 based on particular geographies or FHPs protect, restore, and enhance fish and aquatic Fish Habitat Partnerships (FHPs)
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b Since this report entered review, the committee has learned that the Southeast Climate Consortium is no longer currently funded, though they will have an opportunity to apply for future funds again. Therefore the RISA program now currently supports 10 regional research teams, not 11.
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The activities conducted by the Joint An Association of Joint Venture Management Boards Ventures and their partners range from biological planning, has been organized that includes management board chairs conservation design, habitat conservation (i.e., implementa- and members from each of the Joint Ventures.8 This assotion) , communication and outreach, monitoring, evaluation, ciation develops common messages about the impacts and and applied research.5 successes of Joint Ventures and provides a forum to share les 2 16 U.S.C.
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map of the Landscape Conservation Cooperatives shown for comparison. SOURCES: http://www.fws.gov/birdhabitat/JointVentures/files/JointVentureFactSheet.pdf; https://www.sciencebase.gov/catalog/item/ 55b943ade4b09a3b01b65d78.
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programs and related successes, and encouraging support of and participation in regional efforts. Many individual Joint Fish Habitat Partnerships Ventures and LCCs also have a science or technical committee to provide guidance on the best available science to In 2006, a coalition of state, tribal, territorial, and federal inform partnership decisions.
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Staff support for the National Fish Habitat Board between LCCs and FHPs, including but not limited to cooris provided by AFWA, the Michigan Department of Natural dination on fish habitat assessments. For example, the Plains Resources, the FWS, NOAA's National Marine Fisheries and Prairie Potholes LCC worked with FHPs to develop Service, and USGS.17 advanced fish habitat assessment models to support efficient, By 2012, when an updated second edition of the National targeted, and strategic management of aquatic resources.20 Fish Habitat Action Plan was released, the National Fish The committee also noted some overlap in the membership Habitat Board had approved 18 regional FHPs, and in 2014, of the Fish Habitat Partnership steering committees and the a 19th regional FHP in Southeast Alaska was approved.
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map of the Landscape Conservation Cooperatives shown for comparison. SOURCES: http://fishhabitat.org/sites/default/files/FHP_Map_Main_14_1.pdf; https://www.sciencebase.gov/catalog/item/ 55b943ade4b09a3b01b65d78.
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map of the Landscape Conservation Cooperatives shown for comparison. SOURCES: https://edit.doi.gov/csc/centers; https://www.sciencebase.gov/catalog/item/55b943ade4b09a3b01b65d78.
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. The RISA program now convening conservation partners to develop common con- supports 11 regional research teams22 that help expand and servation priorities and Landscape Conservation Designs as build the nation's capacity to prepare for and adapt to climate well as the applied science and tools to inform these conser- variability and change.
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the 8 Climate Science Centers. authority as self-directed partnerships to develop their own much more focused on research, and are created through a diverse priorities and, to a lesser extent, however, to deter- competitive process by proposing teams of university scienmine their own leadership.
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We selected the Pacific Islands because the geo- Current Emphases of the Pacific RISA: Research emphases graphic boundaries of the Pacific Islands LCC, the Pacific include Islands CSC, and the Pacific RISA are nearly identical, affording an organizationally simple framework to examine 1. Regional climate modeling.
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map of the Landscape Conservation Cooperatives shown for comparison. SOURCES: http://cpo.noaa.gov/ClimatePrograms/ClimateandSocietalInteractions/RISAProgram/RISATeams.aspx; https://www.sciencebase.gov/catalog/item/55b943ade4b09a3b01b65d78.
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Below, the commit tee discusses the source of such overlaps; identifies benefits Consideration of Overlaps: As the above lists indicate, the and costs that may be associated with overlaps, especially in Pacific Islands LCC, CSC, and RISA research is mostly the context of the LCCs; and determines that, with adequate complementary, with one exception: All three entities have coordination and rationale, the current extent of overlap is funded projects on regional climate modeling for Hawaii and acceptable. the Pacific Islands.
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federalist and other related federal programs. structure, some degree of overlap between state and federal By design, LCCs are collaborative conservation efforts activities is both inevitable and desirable.
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The committee learned from down, or overcome them." invited speakers as well as from conversations with stake The involvement of and overlap among multiple man- holders that a major challenge to evaluation of the LCC agement agencies can also provide benefits; moreover, the Network is the number of collaborative efforts already negative aspects of redundancy just mentioned may pertain under way (e.g., by the Joint Ventures, Western Governors' more to regulatory concerns than to the science-management Association, the Western Association of Fish and Wildlife and collaborative priorities of LCCs. As in systems engi- Agencies, and AFWA)
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Potential actions could include holding joint tion priorities, Landscape Conservation Designs, and applied meetings between neighboring LCCs or among LCCs and science to inform the conservation priorities. However, overlapping programs, increasing the capabilities for virtual based on the committee's review of funded projects, both meetings with real-time interactions, or adjusting boundaries entities aspire to fund science, develop tools, and translate if appropriate to achieving conservation objectives.
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