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Where We Go From Here
Partners in FlightConservation Design Workshop
Charles K. Baxter
April 13, 2006
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
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What Should We be Moving Toward
Partners in FlightConservation Design Workshop
Charles K. Baxter
April 13, 2006
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Toward a Collaborative Responsefrom the Bird Conservation Community to the
Changing Nature of Conservation
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Three Topics…
• The Changing Nature of Conservation
• Implications to the Bird Conservation Community
• Where We Go from Here
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The Changing Nature of Conservation
• Advancements in Conservation Theory
The Catalysts of Change
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As a discipline that has always sought its roots in the scientific method, the most fundamental constraint facing conservation has been the issue of scale.
• Conservation occurs at the site scale
• Ecological processes operate at multiple spatial and temporal scales
• Conservation goals/objectives are stated at higher scales.
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The common denominator of landscape ecology, ecosystem management, and conservation biology…
is an attempt to treat conservation as a multi-scale endeavor…
to reconcile site-scale actions with landscape scale processes and functions and to articulate goals and objectives that speak thereto.
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The Changing Nature of Conservation
• Advancements in Conservation Theory
• Advancements in Information Management Technology
The Catalysts of Change
We are being challenged by theory and technology – S. Williams
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The Changing Nature of Conservation
• Advancements in Conservation Theory
• Advancements in Information Management Technology
• An Increasing Emphasis on Accountability
The Catalysts of Change
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To the extent our approaches are well defined, our methods well documented, and our assumptions explicitly stated, a model-based approach to conservation is intrinsically transparent.
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The Changing Nature of ConservationConservation as a Discipline
Target: Landscapes capable of sustaining populations of priority species range-wide at prescribed levels.
• The Target is Changing
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The Changing Nature of ConservationConservation as a Discipline
Species US/Canada
Population
Objective
Cerulean Warbler
560,000 Increase 100%
Prothonotary Warbler
1,800,000 Increase 50%
Kentucky Warbler
1,100,000 Increase 50%
• Expectations are Becoming Outcome-oriented
• The Target is Changing
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The Changing Nature of Conservation
• The Target is Changing
• Expectations are Becoming Outcome-oriented
• Methods and Approaches are Increasingly Model-based and Spatially Explicit
Conservation as a Discipline
Forest Breeding Bird Source Population Areas
Cache/Lower White and Vicinity
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The Changing Nature of Conservation
• The Target is Changing
• Expectations are Becoming Outcome-oriented
• Methods and Approaches are Increasingly Model-based and Spatially Explicit
Conservation as a Discipline
• Science/Management relationship is becoming increasingly complex.
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•Population/Habitat Modeling
•Landscape Characterization & Assessment
•Decision Support for Conservation Delivery
•Decision-Based Population & Habitat Monitoring
•Assumption-Driven Research
A Strategic Direction for NWRCScience for a Changing Conservation World
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The Changing Nature of Conservation
• Planning
• Implementation
• Monitoring
Conservation as an Enterprise
• Research
• Evaluation
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The Changing Nature of Conservation
• Planning – population-based and multi-scaled
• Implementation
• Monitoring
Conservation as an Enterprise
• Research
• Evaluation
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The Changing Nature of Conservation
• Planning – population-based and multi-scaled
• Implementation – targeted and synergistic
• Monitoring
Conservation as an Enterprise
• Research
• Evaluation
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The Changing Nature of Conservation
• Planning – population-based and multi-scaled
• Implementation – targeted and synergistic
• Monitoring – collaborative and decision-based
Conservation as an Enterprise
• Research
• Evaluation
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The Changing Nature of Conservation
• Planning – population-based and multi-scaled
• Implementation – targeted and synergistic
• Monitoring – collaborative and decision-based
Conservation as an Enterprise
• Research
• Evaluation – outcome-focused
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The Changing Nature of Conservation
• Planning – population-based and multi-scaled
• Implementation – targeted and synergistic
• Monitoring – collaborative and decision-based
Conservation as an Enterprise
• Research – assumption-driven
• Evaluation – outcome-focused
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The Changing Nature of Conservation
The conservation paradigm is shifting from “resource management” and toward “system viability/sustainability.”
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National Wildlife Refuges
National Forests
State Wildlife Mgt Areas
Wetland Reserve Program
Public Lands Reforested
Hydrology Restoration – Public
Hydrology Restoration – Private
Conservation Reserve Program
739,518
61,199
1,147,285
318,845
66,887
161,078
210,328
203,146
Conservation Estate
TOTAL -2,908,286
Mississippi Alluvial Valley
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National Wildlife Refuges
National Forests
State Wildlife Mgt Areas
Wetland Reserve Program
Public Lands Reforested
Hydrology Restoration – Public
Hydrology Restoration – Private
Conservation Reserve Program
739,518
61,199
1,147,285
318,845
66,887
161,078
210,328
203,146
Conservation Estate
TOTAL -2,908,286
Target:
Landscapes capable of sustaining populations of
Trust species range-wide at prescribed levels.
How Much
How Much More
Where
Mississippi Alluvial Valley
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On a philosophical level, landscape
ecology, ecosystem management, and
conservation biology represent a rejection
of the resource management paradigm as
being unable to halt or deal with the
degradation of ecological processes,
functions, and services.
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Three Topics…
• The Changing Nature of Conservation
• Implications to the Bird Conservation Community
• Where We Go from Here
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Five-Elements Five-Elements ProcessProcess
• Landscape Characterization and Assessment
• Bird Population Response Modeling
• Conservation Opportunities Assessment
• Optimal landscape design
• Monitoring and Evaluation
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Three Topics…
• The Changing Nature of Conservation
• Implications to the Bird Conservation Community
• Where We Go from Here
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Where we go from here is largely a function of how we define our needs and perceive our challenges.
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A pressing need of Joint Ventures is for a strong conceptual and methodological framework for conducting bird conservation at BCR scales.
• Characterizing and assessing habitat conditions at landscape and ecoregional scales.
• Translating continental and range-wide population goals into habitat objectives at ecoregional-, landscape-, and site-scales.
• Providing spatially explicit decision support for conservation delivery.
Specifically, approaches and methods for…
• Monitoring habitat change and population response at ecoregional scales.
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Our challenges fall in four broad categories:
• Conceptual
• Methodological
• Technological
• Institutional
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1. Development of spatial and ecological data
2. Database models
3. GIS-based HSI models
4. Statistical models
• Efforts have focused on tools and less so on decision support and optimization
• We need to place the whole process of conservation design within an adaptive planning and monitoring model.
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Lower Mississippi Valley Joint Venture Conservation Framework
•Population/Habitat Modeling
•Landscape Characterization & Assessment
•Conservation Design & Implementation
•Decision-Based Population & Habitat Monitoring
•Assumption-Driven Research
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Lower Mississippi Valley Joint Venture Conservation Framework
George M. Sutton/Cornell Lab of Ornithology
•Population/Habitat Modeling
•Landscape Characterization & Assessment
•Conservation Design & Implementation
•Decision-Based Population & Habitat Monitoring
•Assumption-Driven Research
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Our challenges fall in four broad categories:
• Conceptual
• Methodological
• Technological
• Institutional
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Major Themes for Panel Discussion 2
• How do we validate our models?
• When is it appropriate to use abundance-based vs. demographic metrics?
• How necessary is it for us to standardize our approach across regions?
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We don’t need one standardized approach, but…we need our various approaches more standardized.
“There are a lot of neat things going on.”
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Ed Laurent, Ed Laurent, Ph.D.Ph.D.
Biodiversity and Spatial Information CenterBiodiversity and Spatial Information Center
North Carolina State UniversityNorth Carolina State University
Raleigh, NC Raleigh, NC
[email protected][email protected]
Ed Laurent, Ed Laurent, Ph.D.Ph.D.
Biodiversity and Spatial Information CenterBiodiversity and Spatial Information Center
North Carolina State UniversityNorth Carolina State University
Raleigh, NC Raleigh, NC
[email protected][email protected]
Methods for Generating Methods for Generating Patch and Landscape MetricsPatch and Landscape Metrics
Methods for Generating Methods for Generating Patch and Landscape MetricsPatch and Landscape Metrics
Conservation Design Workshop Conservation Design Workshop St. Louis, MO April 11, 2006St. Louis, MO April 11, 2006
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APPLICATION OF APPLICATION OF LANDSCAPE-SCALE HABITAT LANDSCAPE-SCALE HABITAT SUITABILTY MODELS TO BIRD SUITABILTY MODELS TO BIRD
CONSERVATION PLANNINGCONSERVATION PLANNING
Frank R. Thompson III, Frank R. Thompson III,
USDA Forest Service North Central USDA Forest Service North Central Research Station, Columbia, MO Research Station, Columbia, MO
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Ecosystem Modeling, Historic Vegetation Modeling, and Some
Applications to ManagementDavid Diamond
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Application of FIA data to spatial modeling of landscape
change and bird habitat suitability
D. Todd Farrand, John Tirpak, Frank Thompson, Dan Twedt, and Bill
Uihlein April 12, 2006
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PIF Technical Series No. x – Methods for Generating Avicentric Landcover Data
PIF Technical Series No. x – Methods for Applying Landscape-scale Habitat Viability Models to Bird Conservation Planning
PIF Technical Series No. x – Methods for Applying FIA Data in Characterizing and Monitoring Habitat Suitability
PIF Technical Series No. x – Methods for Integrating Spatially Explicit Decision Support into Conservation Delivery
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Our challenges fall in four broad categories:
• Conceptual
• Methodological
• Technological
• Institutional
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We need IT tools that support leveraged, collaborative approaches to amassing and compiling information and translating that information into knowledge.
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Literature Review DatabaseLiterature Review DatabaseLiterature Review DatabaseLiterature Review Database
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Our challenges fall in four broad categories:
• Conceptual
• Methodological
• Technological
• Institutional
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Conservation Cartel?
What we need much more than a conservation cartel is…
for our conservation organizations, individually and collectively, to operate under a new conservation business model.
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The Business Model Concept…
The vehicle for defining the underlying, otherwise unstated, assumptions and core beliefs that when articulated explain to audiences both internal and external:
• Why a business exists;
• The value-added services and products it seeks to provide;
• How it seeks to position itself in the external marketplace; and
• The operational principles and framework upon which its human and capital resources are arrayed and allocated.
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The Business Model Concept…
If effective, a business model will respond to one of the principle tenets of management theory…
Many businesses fail or decline because the assumptions that underlie their decisions (about society, markets, customers, products, technology, and mission) are made obsolete, invalid, or irrelevant by a constantly changing business environment.
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A rethinking and subsequent realignment of the processes and procedures associated with a business’ core functions, taken with the aim of maintaining competitiveness in a rapidly changing business environment.
Business community drivers…
Conservation community drivers…
• IT “revolution”
• The “global economy”
• IT “revolution”
• Shifting conservation paradigm
Business Process Reengineering…
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• Goals and Objectives
• Nature of Planning
• Management and Research
• Monitoring and Evaluation
• Technology
Conservation Process Reengineering
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• Goals and Objectives
• Nature of Planning
• Management and Research
• Monitoring and Evaluation
• Technology
Goals/objectives established in the context of population viability or system sustainability; derived from testable assumptions or predictions of biological response.
Conservation Process Reengineering
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• Goals and Objectives
• Nature of Planning
• Management and Research
• Monitoring and Evaluation
• Technology
Whereas traditionally…
Goals and objectives tend to be programmatically derived, activity focused, and opportunity based.
Reestablish and maintain three viable sub-populations of LA Black Bear in the Tensas Basin, Red River Backwater, and Atchafalaya Basin of Louisiana.
Conservation Process Reengineering
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• Goals and Objectives
Protect and restore 200,000 acres of bottomland hardwoods in the Mississippi Alluvial Valley.
Reestablish and maintain three viable sub-populations of LA Black Bear in the Tensas Basin, Red River Backwater, and Atchafalaya Basin of Louisiana. • Nature of
Planning
• Management and Research
• Monitoring and Evaluation
• Technology
Whereas traditionally…
Conservation Process Reengineering
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• Goals and Objectives
• Nature of Planning
• Management and Research
• Monitoring and Evaluation
• Technology
Planning becomes biologically focused and model-driven; directed at landscape-scale population/habitat relationships; focused less on temporally static decisions and more on supporting decisions over time. Planning is iterative and cyclic.
Planning is akin to cataloguing and prioritizing program-specific opportunities; tending to be sporadic and focused on temporally static decisions; responding to administrative edict.
Whereas traditionally…
Conservation Process Reengineering
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• Goals and Objectives
• Nature of Planning
• Management and Research
• Monitoring and Evaluation
• Technology
M & R linked by explicitly stated, testable assumptions as to how populations are responding to changing landscapes and management prescriptions.
Management operates on the basis of intuitive, implicit assumptions and research focuses on academic interest.
Whereas traditionally…
Conservation Process Reengineering
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• Goals and Objectives
• Nature of Planning
• Management and Research
• Monitoring and Evaluation
• Technology
Monitoring programs designed to test assumptions, evaluate uncertainty, and assess landscape change and biological response.
Monitoring tends to be viewed as an element of “research” with management being content to track accomplishments as administratively required.
Whereas traditionally…
Conservation Process Reengineering
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• Goals and Objectives
• Nature of Planning
• Management and Research
• Monitoring and Evaluation
• Technology
Conservation methods will be highly demanding of spatial and relational database technologies, requiring core competencies and skills not traditionally associated with the conservation workforce.
The technology focus of conservation organizations has been on administrative applications of the business community at large, e.g. e-mail, web-sites, financial management, teleconferencing, etc.
Whereas traditionally…
Conservation Process Reengineering
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The Business Model Concept…
The vehicle for defining the underlying, otherwise unstated, assumptions and core beliefs that when articulated explain to audiences both internal and external:
• Why a business exists;
• The value-added services and products it seeks to provide;
• How it seeks to position itself in the external marketplace; and
• The operational principles and framework upon which its human and capital resources are arrayed and allocated.
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Five-Elements Five-Elements ProcessProcess
• Landscape Characterization and Assessment
• Bird Population Response Modeling
• Conservation Opportunities Assessment
• Optimal landscape design
• Monitoring and Evaluation
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PIF Technical Series No. x – Methods for Generating Avicentric Landcover Data
PIF Technical Series No. x – Methods for Applying Landscape-scale Habitat Viability Models to Bird Conservation Planning
PIF Technical Series No. x – Methods for Applying FIA Data in Characterizing and Monitoring Habitat Suitability
PIF Technical Series No. x – Methods for Integrating Spatially Explicit Decision Support into Conservation Delivery
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Gil EckrichGil Eckrich
‘A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.’ – Steven Wright
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Target: Landscapes capable of sustaining populations range-wide at prescribed levels.
Approach: Means and methods of developing population-based goals and objectives expressed and linked across multiple spatial scales.
New Challenges…fundamentally
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To you young people…
Remember Steve Moran’s words.
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What Should We be Moving Toward
Partners in FlightConservation Design Workshop
Charles K. Baxter
April 13, 2006
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Toward a Collaborative Responsefrom the Bird Conservation Community to the
Changing Nature of Conservation