The South Atlantic Landscape Conservation Cooperative’s

Third Thursday Web ForumThe SALCC Strategic Plan and What It Means

Thursday, April 19, 2012

Third Thursday Web Forum Agenda

Introductions Updates Monthly Topic: Your SALCC Strategic PlanQuestions & Discussion of Monthly TopicQuestions & Discussion of SALCCClose

Introductions

Ken McDermond, CoordinatorRua Mordecai, Science CoordinatorJanet Cakir, Socioeconomic Adaption

CoordinatorAmy Keister, GIS CoordinatorLaurie Rounds, Gulf Coast Landscape

Conservation LiaisonGinger Deason, Information Transfer

Specialist/Forest Service Liaison

Updates

Science Needs Assessment still open for review

Timeline for SALCC 2012 Project selectionNational LCC WorkshopDialogue between

cultural resource stakeholders and LCCs

Annual Report on webwww.southatlanticlcc.org

The SALCC Strategic Plan - History

October 2011 – Strategic Planning process initiatedNovember 2011 – Input from Steering Committee

and stakeholdersDecember 2011 – Planning team developed draft SPDecember 2011 – Draft SP presented to

stakeholdersDecember 2011 – Draft SP presented to Steering

CommitteeJanuary 2012 – Steering Committee reviewed,

improved and adopted plan at a face-to-face meeting

Pieces of the Strategic Plan

VisionMissionGoalsGuiding Principles Objectives

Vision

A landscape that sustains the nation's natural and cultural resources for current and future

generations

Mission

To create a shared blueprint for landscape conservation actions that sustain natural and cultural resources by:

Facilitating conservation planning Integrating partner efforts Identifying research gaps Working at large scales Addressing interconnectedness of systems Anticipating future change

Goals

1. Provide a blueprint for enhancing SALCC conservation planning and investments

2. Provide support for conservation investment decisions

3. Facilitate collaboration to maximize conservation investment

4. Promote data integration and sharing5. Evaluate and report progress

Guiding Principles

• Do not duplicate the effective work of others• Consider and respect each participating organization's

unique mandates and jurisdictions• Add value to landscape scale conservation partnerships • Be transparent in SALCC decision-making• Focus on developing shared landscape level priorities

that lead to implementable strategies• Develop and rely upon best available science• Seek to understand the attitudes, values and beliefs of

partners• Continuously improve and refine products to ensure

ongoing effectiveness

Questions so far?

Goals

1. Provide a blueprint for enhancing SALCC conservation planning and investments

2. Provide support for conservation investment decisions

3. Facilitate collaboration to maximize conservation investment

4. Promote data integration and sharing5. Evaluate and report progress

Indicators and measureable targets

Purpose: Build on existing planning efforts (SWAPs, OCS, etc.) to define measurable indicators of conservation success for the SALCC

Goal 1 - Provide a blueprint for enhancing SALCC conservation planning and investments

Goal 1 - Provide a blueprint for enhancing SALCC conservation planning and investments

Toward a gulf blueprint: Gulf Coast Landscape Conservation Liaison

Purpose: Provide

coordination and outreach and develop regionally specific coastal conservation assessments and strategies.

Partners: NOAA and Gulf Coast Prairie LCC, Gulf Coastal Plains and Ozarks LCC, South Atlantic LCC, Peninsular Florida LCC.

Gulf Climate Data & Scenarios Workshop

• USGS, NOAA, and the Gulf LCCs

Objectives:

• Review climate downscaling efforts

• Prioritize shared regional needs

• Identify opportunities to fill gaps

Goal 1 - Provide a blueprint for enhancing SALCC conservation planning and investments

Goal 2 - Provide support for conservation investment decisions

Deliver interim products to key partners

Predicted Land-cover Change

SLAMM Sea Level Rise ModelingPredicted

Urbanization