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6 An Assessment of the Early Accomplishments and Likely Long-Term Outcomes and Impacts of the Landscape Conservation Cooperatives Network
6 An Assessment of the Early Accomplishments and Likely Long-Term Outcomes and Impacts of the Landscape Conservation Cooperatives Network
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. For all 22 individual LCCs, the following steps of fish, wildlife, and their habitats as a result of the have been achieved: program." This chapter addresses this congressional request and the U.S.
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n iterative, viewed as a formal, summative evaluation. collaborative, and holistic process that provides information, analytical tools, spatially explicit data, and best management practices to develop shared conservation strategies and to Goal 1: Conservation Strategy achieve jointly held conservation goals among partners." Objective 1: "Identify shared conservation objectives, How these plans are implemented will determine whether challenges, and opportunities to inform landscape ends objectives can be accomplished (see Appendix C, guid conservation at continental, LCC, island, and regional ance on Landscape Conservation Design)
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Because of the wealth of guidsite-specific planning of conservation strategies and actions. ance available for how to prepare conservation plans and The North Atlantic LCC is also investing considerable Landscape Conservation Design, the committee has sumeffort in landscape conservation planning.
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SIAS benchmark that assesses whether the individual LCCs view themselves as functioning as "part of [the] integrated network of LCC partnerships," LCCs reported answers rangGoal 2: Collaborative Conservation ing from "moderately" to "fully." Objective 2: "Identify and explore opportunities for col laborative actions within the LCC Network." Objective 3: "Demonstrate, monitor, and evaluate the value and effectiveness of the LCC Network." Several joint efforts that span multiple LCCs are in progress, such as the Mississippi River Basin/Gulf Hypoxia Some early progress toward monitoring and evaluatInitiative described in Appendix B and the effort to imple- ing the value and effectiveness of the LCCs and the LCC ment the Southeast Conservation Adaptation Strategy.
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As previously discussed, an evaluation LCC-funded research endeavors have improved conserva- process needs to be developed that can capture and synthetion actions. For instance, the Appalachian LCC developed size the accomplishments of the individual LCCs to provide models and mapping tools to inform the "Assessing Future a network-wide assessment of the achievements.
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All but one of the NHAs addressed and made progress programs that encourage conservation of the area's natural on each of the conservation goals identified in the area's leg- resources. Funding comes from a mix of public and private islation and approved management plans.
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The implemenAtlantic Coast Joint Venture tation occurs at a smaller scale either through state working The ACJV is one of many Joint Ventures (see also Chap- groups or through focus area working groups. Partners in the ter 5)
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" because it is difficult to predict the future ling as a place-based or species-based initiative, for example, support for the LCC Network and individual LCCs, as well the Y2Y's objective to protect an indicator species such as the as many other factors that will determine whether the LCCs' grizzly bear. Similarly, the Joint Ventures' focus on waterfowl goals can be achieved.
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. Joint Ventures addressed this important LCC Network to demonstrate its overall impact would be element by establishing a management board that oversees greatly enhanced with better synthesis and aggregation of the development of an implementation plan (ACJV, 2005)
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In fact, some tools the North American Waterfowl Management Plan preceded and research results funded by individual LCCs have already the Joint Ventures, which were established to implement the been noted as improving resource management decisions North American Waterfowl Management Plan. Congress (see Appendix A)
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However, the committee from other landscape conservation programs that have existed concludes that it would require the LCCs to develop a promuch longer. Critical components that are important for such cess that can account and track how their planning efforts collaborative efforts include a unifying theme, strong stake- result in the implementation of on-the-ground conservation.
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