12/15 DRAFT STRATEGIC PLAN UPDATEYour thoughts and comments are welcome

Send them to Vherr@groupsolutions.usBy 12/21/2011

Today’s Agenda

• Review Draft Plan• Questions and Clarification• Next Steps• Short Survey

Planning Team

• Mallory Martin - NCWRC• Laurel Barnhill – USFWS• Rick Durbrow – EPA• Cat Burns – TNC• John Stanton – USFWS• Pete Benjamin – USFWS• Joe DeVivo – NPS

• Marshall Williams – DOD• Jon Ambrose - GADNR• Chris Ellis – NOAA• Roger Pugliese – SAFMC• Craig Watson – ACJV• Shannon Deaton - NCWRC • SALCC Staff

What we do: Mission

Create a shared vision for landscape conservation actions that sustain natural and cultural resources for

future generations and collaborate in its implementation and refinement

What we do: Goals

1. Provide a shared vision and blueprint for enhancing our partner’s regional conservation planning efforts and investments

2. Use applied science to support decisions that span from policy to management

3. Facilitate regional collaboration and build strong working relationships

4. Promote regional data integration and interoperability

5. Evaluation LCC Progress toward meeting shared landscape conservation goals

What we do: Strategies1. Provide a shared vision and blueprint for enhancing our partner’s

regional conservation planning efforts and investments

a. Identify the scope of conservation components, priorities and targets of the SALCC landscape to help partners address regional land use planning and impacts of changes on conservation investments

b. Develop response models that depict future conditions and incorporate future change into the blueprint

c. Ensure this regional vision for conservation is shared among a larger audience

d. Link SALCC efforts to other LCCs

e. Establish SALCC framework to assist partners in support of prioritizing landscape research gaps

f. Develop socio-economic criteria and frameworks that assist partners in identifying high-priority conservation investments

What we do: Strategies2. Use applied science to support decisions that span from policy to

management

a. Develop formal understanding of key partners’ decision support needs

b. Assist conservation managers in planning for change

c. Embed ecosystem services and economics in conservation planning

d. Provide online tools, data and models that support non-technical users

e. Facilitate understanding and effective use of available landscape tools

f. Coordinate seamless new monitoring and research efforts across spatial scales

What we do: Strategies3. Facilitate regional collaboration and build strong working

relationships

a. Ensure seamless cross-LCC integration

b. Seamlessly integrate LCC efforts and support to assist existing partnerships and joint ventures

c. Remove barriers and constraints to effective partnering within the Region

d. Facilitate regular information exchange amongst partners

e. ID and communicate priority needs to USGS Climate Science Centers on behalf of partners

f. Maximize the benefits derived from partnership investments in regional conservation outcomes

g. Create break-thru public-private partnerships

h. Coordinate regular stakeholder input and directional guidance

i. Facilitate effective multi-party communication within LCC

What we do: Strategies4. Promote regional data integration and interoperability

a. Promote existing data and interoperability standards, best practices and encourage data portability

b. Work across existing agencies and groups to align diverse data sets

c. Provide guidance on linking spatially explicit resources to a cooperative conservation blueprint

d. Monitor integration of data sets that build the landscape blueprint

e. ID best locations to warehouse integrated landscape blueprint data sets from multiple partners

What we do: Strategies5. Evaluation LCC Progress toward meeting shared landscape

conservation goals

a. Report progress, costs, and benefits to broad audiences

b. Evaluate sufficiency of available information to address current conservation goals

c. Maximize use of existing research and information collected by partners

d. Collect data on LCC indicators of success and benchmarks

e. Assess monetary and non-monetary value of conservation options and outcomes

f. Communicate broadly about the blueprint, findings and progress

g. Establish measures of LCC effectiveness and conduct annual partner feedback sessions

Why we do it: Vision

Create landscape conservation strategies for the 21st century to sustain the nation's natural and cultural resources for current and future generations that includes:

• Working at new and larger temporal and spatial scales• Working across jurisdictional boundaries (working without

boundaries)• Using an interdisciplinary approach that addresses the

interconnectedness of systems• Focusing on creating healthy ecosystems• Anticipating future change

Our Values

1. We encourage partner-based, interdisciplinary, landscape-scale approaches to conservation of natural and cultural resources

2. Transparency is a fundamental element of our work and partnership3. We provide non-prescriptive, neutral planning frameworks for our partners to use

in their conservation planning efforts4. We are accountable partners and strive to demonstrated a significant return on

conservation investments5. We encourage cooperative conservation planning by removing barriers to

effective collaboration for existing public-private partnerships, expanding the scope and reach of existing conservation efforts, and facilitating the creation of new partnerships to fill identified gaps

6. Our partnership will consider and respect each participating organization's unique mandates and jurisdictions

7. We recognize the value of conservation at multiple scales8. We recognize and avoid duplicating the successful work of others

Our Guiding Principles1. Serve as neutral coordinator and conservationist2. Integrate across partnerships, organizations and disciplines3. Identify or fill a known information gap4. Avoid duplicating the effective work of others5. Focus on developing shared landscape level priorities that lead to implementable

strategies6. Develop and rely upon best available science7. Develop explicit linkages and approaches to ensure SALCC products are in a useful

form for partners to utilize for conservation decision-making8. Understand the attitudes, values and beliefs of stakeholders, partners and public

sectors 9. Benefit the maximum number of partners and contain learning that can be applied to

multiple landscapes10. Gain traction by leveraging opportunities that add value to existing commitments and

work already underway11. Continuously improve and refine partner products to ensure ongoing effectiveness

Core Competencies

1. Creation of a broader, regional landscape perspective; a "satellite view"

2. Integrate across partnerships that coordinate conservation efforts spanning regional boundaries

3. Develop a mutual understanding of future change (climate change, energy, land use, population, exotics, etc.)

4. Collaborative, neutral, and cross-discipline landscape conservation planning

5. Integration of geographically consistent data sets useful for landscape conservation

6. Enhanced cost effectiveness of collaboration in providing products and services. Good stewardship of resources

Decision Criteria

Does the SALCC Action:

1. Promote existing or new public-private partnerships?2. Maximize use of existing partner data whenever possible?3. Make complexity understandable?4. Make life easier for frontline field workers in some way?5. Consider linkages to other LCCs?6. Deliver applied science for decisions that were unavailable

elsewhere?7. Leverage existing alliances and partnerships first?8. Provide inclusiveness and transparency?

Questions?Raye Nilius: With respect to reliance on science: studies are needed on climate change impacts and effects. As science on that subject is not always readily available, how would that void be addressed in the development of priorities?

Emily Greene: Did the Steering Committee come to any decision regarding how far offshore the SALCC efforts will extend?

Allison Schwarz Weakley - NC Natural Heritage Program: Cooperation, collaboration and synthesis of data/information should definitely be a focus of the SALCC plan. NC has developed comprehensive data and tools to address conservation priorities, and we would benefit greatly by efforts to extend the work we do across state boundaries.

Sarah McRae: Can we get a copy of this specific presentation so that we can send additional comments to Mr. Herr?

Allison Schwarz Weakley - NC Natural Heritage Program: Please post this presentation on your website.

Scott Robinson: Good job. I think the challenge is in the details of execution of the plan.

Next Steps

• Feedback on draft from you• Continue to improve plan• Present draft plan to Steering Committee• Finalize plan during January Meeting

12/15 DRAFT STRATEGIC PLAN UPDATEYour thoughts and comments are welcome

Send them to Vherr@groupsolutions.usBy 12/21/2011

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