(based on April 17-18, 2011 meeting; potential projects to pull together)
1. Regionally compatible wildlife distribution and crucial area data (lead State WGA leads)
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WGA Pilot Projects (ID-MT; WY Interagency) —now subsumed by WBA CHAT?
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BLM ROC in support of REAs; deadlines tightest for Middle Rockies REA; Wyoming Basins
REA and Northern Great Basins REA just kicking off
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GAP/reGAP NW project (Jocelyn Aycrigg); NW distribution project led by Gary Bouvais
2. Connectivity (lead John Pierce, Gregg Servheen)
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WGA Landscape Integrity Working Group; rolls the 5-state connectivity assessment to a larger connectivity assessment with key players, including Dave Theobald, Pat Comer, Mike
Schwartz to, by 2013, assess connectivity (and I assume Landscape Integrity) for the full
WGA area
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Montana Connectivity Project
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NPS Call to Action: working with Wildlife Conservation Society, calls for establishing 5 wildlife corridors —doesn’t specify where, but the gnlcc is definitely on the radar screen
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AGO Crown of the Continent Connectivity Priority
3. Climate change and Vulnerability Assessments (led by Leona Svancara)
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Tracking the National Climate Assessment
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Tracking Katharine Hayhoe report on proper use of downscaled climate data
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The GYCC Adaptation subcommittee is working with Jim Morrison and Tom to use the downscaled data provided by CIG at U of W in the GYA
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Middle Rockies REA is using Steve Hostetler's data for the vulnerability assessment;
Hostetler’s website is set to launch in October
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Andrea Ray of NOAA is building a "portal" for downscaled climate data —the National Climate
Prediction and Projections Platform
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PW Vulnerability Assessment project to fast forward work in the Columbia Basin (Leona is a
PI; downscaled model by Sarah Shafer of USGS)
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Meade Krosby at UW downscaling climate data for the WGA project, at least the Columbia
4. Assessing Habitat data layers for best/consistency (No Identified Lead)
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Leona sent out her assessment of different data layers (GAP, REGap, Landfire)
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Update of LandFire
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Wildlife Habitat Policy Research Program (Servheen)
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LCC-Sponsored Habitat Data (e.g, Crabtree Proposal; GNLCC Sponsored Science)
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Habitat data sponsored by other partners (NPS I&M Program (Thoma); NASA CRB Projects
(PIs Hansen, Morissette, and Crabtree)
5. Assessing data sharing and collaboration tools (lead Sean Finn with state partner)
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Role of LC MAP as a data and analysis portal
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State based systems (MT CAPS, WY WISDOM, others) and WGA Regional CHAT
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BLM ROC and the REA data base