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Where we are and what we need to do to finish the Network Map

Green Infrastructure Planning

Disciplinary Foundations

Green Infrastructure Planning

Planning Elements - General

 Leadership Forum

 Provides science-based process  Identifies key partners for collaboration

 Network Design

 Incorporates conservation science  Expresses data needed to achieve goals  Promotes pro-active, systematic, large-scale

conservation action

 Implementation Quilt

 Allows for cooperation among diverse programs

and projects

 Provides possibility of greater predictability and

certainty for development & conservation

Green Infrastructure Planning

Planning Elements – Our Version

 Leadership Forum

 Executive Group, Resource Team, Working

Groups, & the Public

 Network Design – Environmental focus

 Urban Forestry Conservation Assessment  Working Group maps

 Implementation Quilt

 We’re setting things up for this

Green Infrastructure Planning

Project Planning - General

 Goals – specific statements of project intent  Objectives – quantifiable methods for implementing

goals (what, how much, and by when)

 Scale & extent – study area definition  Planning outcomes – likely elements in long-term

Implementation Quilt

 Landscape types – provide rationale for deciding what

resource attributes or features to include and connect within Green Infrastructure Network

 Landscape attributes – provide direction re: data

needed

Green Infrastructure Planning

Project Planning – Our Version

 Goals - develop a strategic conservation planning tool  Objectives –create a Green Infrastructure Network map that will serve

as a planning tool for the study area planning agencies, conservation efforts, and developers & builders, and increase public awareness of the ecosystem value of Green Infrastructure

 Scale & Extent - Planning area boundaries of Farmington, Fayetteville,

Greenland, Johnson and parts of Washington Co. over to Wedington Wildlife Mgmt Area

 Planning Outcomes – Network Map and online map server will

highlight and guide many possible patches for Implementation Quilt

 Landscape Types – forested areas, prairie remnants, heritage &

cultural sites, parks & trails

 Landscape Attributes - provided by YOU (the Working Groups) and the

Urban Forestry Conservation Assessment (UFCA)

Green Infrastructure Planning

How Planning Design interfaces with GIS Processes & Network Map development

 Leadership Forum

 Provides guidance for GIS parameters

 Network Design

 Develop cores, hubs, and corridors

 Integrate data and Leadership Forum guidelines

 Core/hub minimum size based on ecological principles  Corridor minimum width based on ecological principles

 Network characterization and prioritization

possibilities

 Provide ecological value weighting (as in UFCA)  Provide vulnerability ranking (ex: development pressure)

 Implementation Quilt

 Suitability Analysis can point out priority action areas

 Refines usefulness of network (ex: shortfalls &

restoration targeting)

 Subjective but not arbitrary

Green Infrastructure

Network Map element priorities for Habitat preservation

We design GI networks to mitigate or minimize habitat loss or fragmentation impacts. The more fragmented the habitat, the more important corridors become.

From: Green Infrastructure GIS Tools for Strategic Conservation Planning, 2009

Green Infrastructure Planning

Idealized Network Map

Green Infrastructure Planning

Network Element definitions

Cores

 Fully functional natural ecosystems – based on needs of an interior

dwelling ‘umbrella’ species

 High quality habitat for native species  Nucleus of Network

Hubs

 Slightly fragmented aggregations of core areas plus contiguous natural

cover

 Large enough to support populations of native species and serve as

sources for emigration into surrounding landscapes Corridors

 Linear links between cores/hubs that allow passage of animals, seeds,

pollen, etc.

 Best functioning corridors are wide enough for interior conditions and

species

Here’s what we have

for Upland Forest

Here’s what we have

for Prairie remnants/grasslands/wetlands

Here’s what we have

for Hydrologic Elements

Here’s what we have

for UFCA Tiered Top 100 Terrestrial & Aquatic

Here’s what we have

for UFCA Aquatic parcels ranked 1-3 of 1-10

1468/9417 = 15.5%

Here’s what we have

for UFCA Terrestrial parcels ranked 1-3 of 1-10

413/2986 = 14.4%

Here’s what we have

for UFCA Terrestrial & Aquatic parcels ranked 1-3

• f 1-10 overlaid

Colors indicate

• verlap of

T & A classes Red 1 & 1 Orange 1 & 2 Purple 1 & 3 Yellow 2 & 2 Green 2 & 3 Blue 3 & 3

Here’s what we have

Karst Area Sensitivity Map

What we need to do

 Consult our experts about interior dwelling ‘umbrella’

species

 Decide if species parameters apply to all 4 of our

network inputs: Upland forest, Prairie/Grassland, Hydrology, UFCA & KASM.

 Decide on minimum core sizes and corridor widths for

the network inputs where species parameters do apply.

 If species parameters don’t apply, decide what physical

parameters do.

Let’s talk about…

 How do we want to do this:

 Split into Sub-Committees and decide right now?  Take it home and think about it for another

meeting?

 Adjourn to the pub for a Symposium?  Who should make decisions about adapting the

UFCA?

 Perhaps Upland forest decisions should apply.