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Southern Rockies LCC Strategic Synthesis

Communications & Outreach Southern Rockies LCC Strategic Conservation Framework

SRLCC Strategic Synthesis is based on the identified Conservation Framework

Proposed Strategy Goals

CONSERVATION/BIOLOGICAL PLANNING Proposed Goal 1: The SRLCC will provide the structure and processes needed to collaboratively identify, co-develop, and integrate scientific information to support landscape conservation priorities. Proposed Goal 2: The SRLCC will support the articulation of desirable conditions for Focal Resources at the landscape-level.

Proposed Strategy Goals

CONSERVATION DESIGN and DATA MANAGEMENT

Proposed Goal 3: The SRLCC will create and deliver landscape-level data sharing strategies, syntheses and integration tools for discoverable, accessible, and useable data that leverages and supports resource management decisions related to SRLCC landscape conservation priorities. Proposed Goal 4: The SRLCC will facilitate the Landscape Conservation Design process and provide tools for integration of biological, social, and economic factors into effective landscape-level planning and climate adaptation responses which include identifying places and actions that help achieve collaboratively-developed resource management goals.

Proposed Strategy Goals

CONSERVATION DELIVERY

Proposed Goal 5: The SRLCC will develop the appropriate tools , decision support, and communication platforms to facilitate strategic and coordinated conservation delivery for on-the-ground resource management.

OUTCOME BASED MONITORING

Proposed Goal 6: The SRLCC will develop the appropriate metrics and methodologies that enable our member organizations and partners to collaboratively evaluate our collective progress in delivering sustainable natural and cultural resource management.

Proposed Strategy Goals

ASSUMPTION DRIVEN APPLIED RESEARCH

Proposed Goal 7: The SRLCC will work with our partners and other organizations (such as Climate Science Centers, USDA Climate Hubs, RISA’s and other LCCs) to develop a robust science agenda that employs the principles of adaptive management on a landscape-scale, and which defines a future conservation landscape capable of sustaining natural and cultural resources at desired levels.

COMMUNICATION AND OUTREACH

Proposed Goal 8: Facilitate engagement and dialogue across the SRLCC geography that attracts partners, supports existing and new project funding, improves partner relations, and raises awareness of SRLCC activities.

A table has been developed for each goal using a basic logic model that defines OBJECTIVES, ACTIONS, OUTPUTS, and OUTCOMES

CONSERVATION/BIOLOGICAL PLANNING

Proposed Goal 1: The SRLCC will provide the structure and processes needed to collaboratively identify, co-develop, and integrate applied scientific information to support landscape conservation priorities.

OBJECTIVES ACTION OUTPUT OUTCOMES

• 1. LCC Staff and Steering Committee are

actively fostering strategic engagement, collaboration, and coordination with a diversity of entities that influence landscape conservation decisions, including: state and federal agencies, tribes, Universities, NGOs, regional partnerships and regional and local planners.

• 1. SC members engage with their organization and staff

to identify ways SRLCC can help meet their needs and are bringing this information back to SC..

• 2. Using completed social network analysis/mapping,

identify key outreach needed to further connect local and regional partnerships to enhance SRLCC landscape conservation planning efforts

• 3. SC Evaluates current membership and make up, and

identifies potential new members for inclusion.

• 4. Integrate new partner priorities as they emerge
• 5. On-going support and implementation of SRLCC

Tribal Engagement Strategy

• Enhanced Situational Context of conservation

actions on the landscape (who is doing what/how partners are interacting)

• Define gaps/needs for Steering Committee

membership

• Identification of priority activities/projects for

Traditional Knowledge integration associated with SRLCC focal resources

• Enhanced collective approach (knowledge

integration) to resource conservation and adaption planning

• Identification of actions SRLCC can take to support

tribal conservation efforts

• Builds capacity to address

conservation needs across the larger landscape

• Allows measurement of

SRLCC engagement with

• ther partnerships and the

effectiveness of SRLCC in supporting regional conservation efforts

• More tribes actively

participate with the SRLCC activities/resources

• SRLCC is operating in

value-added capacity

• 2. The LCC has organized the technical capacity,

including dedicated partner staff, needed to address priority conservation science needs. Further, the LCC has established a working relationship with organizations that provide research, information and tools (e.g., RMRS, USGS, USDA, Heritage Programs, CESUs, etc.) to ensure that science and conservation activities involving the LCCs have access to the best regional technical information and that priorities are coordinated and integrated. 1. Coordinator articulates the strategy and structure for science acquisition/use for focal areas. 2. Science Coordinator implements strategy for science acquisition/use in focal areas. 3. Integrate existing focal priorities into focal area adaptation forums, and adopt new priorities that emerge as priorities within one or more focal area. 4. Technical capacity reviews needs expressed by each focal area, looking for duplications and if data already exists. Provides recommendation to SC for moving forward with projects.

• Identification and validation of key information

needs

• Identification and validation of key science needs
• Identification and validation of key stressors on the

landscape

• Focal areas are actively moving through the

Strategic Conservation Framework utilizing LCD

• SRLCC science or technical teams are addressing

the LCC’s priority conservation science needs.

• FOAs/RFPs based on highest priorities
• SRLCC has an objective

basis for identifying and prioritizing science investment funding/ needs

• Consolidated information

about science and/or processes that reduces duplication of effort by partners for identified priority conservation targets

PLAN FOR STEERING COMMITTEE REVIEW

 Steering committee will have 1-2 conference calls to provide initial feedback/edits/comments

• n draft goals and associated Objectives/Actions/Outputs/Outcomes (*especially want to build

consensus on the level of detail for actions) prior to July meeting  Two weeks prior to July meeting, the SC will receive revised Goals and Tables based on feedback from conference calls  SC will provide final feedback on revised goals/goal tables at the July meeting and vote to adopt  Volunteers will also be requested at the July SC meeting to form another short-term workgroup to develop draft performance measures for the finalized goals and objectives  The Strategic Synthesis Workgroup will prepare remaining text for the plan and a final, completed draft strategy will be provided to the SC at least two weeks before the November 2017 meeting