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Starting in the 1960s, sev- Based on this Secretarial Order, a program titled the eral federal laws were passed to provide additional protec- LCC Network was established with the main objectives tion for individual species and particular natural resources. to facilitate collaboration across jurisdictional boundaries, In recent decades, resource managers and scientists gained develop shared conservation priorities and common science greater appreciation of broader ecosystem dynamics that needs among partners, and create conservation strategies to extend beyond geographic or political boundaries, as well be implemented by participating agencies or other partners.
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. The Academies Despite the strong rationale and broad support for established a study committee, which met numerous times, landscape approaches in the conservation literature, many solicited extensive input from members of the stakeholder conservation activities in the United States continue to procommunity, and authored this report.
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The goals and objectives include most of the ple, as wildfires in the western United States have become critical elements of a landscape approach, such as a unifyof increasing concern, differences in fire management policy ing theme, a process for stakeholder engagement, adaptive across national parks, federally managed forests, tribal lands, management, and delivery of landscape-scale designs at the state lands, and private lands can make it difficult to manage regional level with the aim to scale up to the network level. the risk of large fires, especially where the destruction of In general, the LCC Network Strategic Plan is consistent property and the potential for loss of human lives are at stake.
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agencies also aim to coordinate conservation efforts and/ program, FWS's Migratory Bird Joint Ventures program or engage similar sets of stakeholders, leading to questions (Joint Ventures) , FWS's National Fish Habitat Partnership, about the extent of overlap and coordination among these and the U.S.
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• The National Fish Habitat Action Plan, which was developed in 2006 and updated in 2012, called for a network The CSCs and LCCs were initiated to be complemenof regional Fish Habitat Partnerships that would focus on tary; strong coordination between the two programs was conservation of important aquatic habitats and species. The always intended and has been encouraged by having CSCs program is also modeled after the Joint Ventures and currently participate in LCC activities within their regions.
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The LCC Network has taken some steps in of the individual LCCs were initiated only 4 or 5 years ago, this direction by developing the LCC Network Strategic Plan whereas conservation efforts typically take many years or
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in the SIAS conform with • The criteria used to rate the performance of the LCC guidelines from OMB; the metrics align with some of the Network as a whole, and its components, should be closely goals in the LCC Network Strategic Plan to some degree; and related to the objectives that they are intended to evaluate the metrics enable aggregation across the individual LCCs. and articulated clearly enough that any evaluator with access However, the SIAS tool falls short in the following to the same information about the LCC Network could apply ways: it is not based on the LCC Network Strategic Plan, those criteria consistently.
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8 A REVIEW OF THE LANDSCAPE CONSERVATION COOPERATIVES Assuming the LCC Network successfully implements its strategic plan, the LCCs will provide an important process by which stakeholders can engage at the landscape scale to set strategic conservation priorities that can span interest groups, disciplinary expertise, and sectoral approaches. This report provides guidance to further improve on the ability of the LCC Network to deliver on its vision of "landscapes capable of sustaining natural and cultural resources for current and future generations."2 2 LCC vision statement: https://lccnetwork.org/about/about-lccs.
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