Project Background
Purpose
The Green River Basin Landscape Conservation Design project (GRB LCD) is an opportunity to think, plan, and act across boundaries and jurisdictions to meet mutual goals for agreed upon conservation targets in the ecosystems of the Green River Basin. This effort is not intended to replace existing science or plans, and is not intended to undermine current management. Rather, through a collaborative process, the project will complement existing projects and partnerships by synthesizing and developing spatial data and information that is consistent and comprehensive across the Basin to provide the landscape-scale context.
Background
The Southern Rockies Landscape Conservation Cooperative (SRLCC) Steering Committee identified three large landscapes where the LCC partnership should develop landscape conservation designs: the Green River Basin, the Upper Rio Grande, and the Four-Corners area of New Mexico, Colorado, Utah and Arizona. Because the Green River Basin encompasses part of the Great Northern LCC (GNLCC) as well, GNLCC partners on this project, and both cooperatives have agreed that the SRLCC will lead development of the design. SRLCC and GNLCC have convened an Oversight Team of partners with resource conservation interests in the project area to guide project scope and provide feedback on the application of information. The SRLCC contracts with Conservation Science Partners to coordinate data development and collaborative process.
What is a Landscape Conservation Design?
A Landscape Conservation Design combines geospatial data with environmental information to create maps and models to inform conservation planning to inform biological and hydrological goals through a collaborative process. An LCD enables local managers to plan conservation actions in the context of a broader landscape across multiple land ownerships with shared priority resources to carry out adaptive management. Click on the links below for a few resources on LCD's, including the collaborative processes used to develop them and the data integration, analysis, and products that are outcomes.
Columbia Plateau LCD
White paper on LCD
Griffin Groups LCD community
Get involved
The Oversight Team meets once per month by phone to track project progress and provide feedback. Read meeting summaries of these calls to stay up-to-date. Throughout the project we will also offer webinars and workshops open to all interested stakeholders. Contact us if you'd like to be added to our project contact list. You'll receive updates and information on future webinars and meetings.