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GRASSLAND CONSERVATION PARTNERSHIPS; WEBINAR ON IMPROVED SPATIAL DATA & ADVANCED APPS FOR GRASSLANDS CONSERVATION; AND THE GCP LCC'S LANDSCAPE CONSERVATION DESIGN EXPLAINED 
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GETTING A 'GRIP' ON GRASSLAND DECLINES IN TEXAS
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In states like Texas, where 98% of the land is privately held, it can be tricky for a Landscape Conservation Cooperative to assist with biological planning and conservation design. The trick for the Gulf Coast Prairie LCC, when it comes to grassland and prairie conservation, has been finding the right partners -- partners like the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department, the Oaks & Prairies Joint Venture, and the Gulf Coast Joint Venture.
Read more to learn about the Joint Venture's Grassland Restoration Incentive Program & two ways in which the GCP LCC is assisting this program.
Photo courtesy of Texas Parks & Wildlife Department
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MARCH 2ND WEBINAR: IMPROVED SPATIAL DATA & ADVANCED APPLICATIONS EFFORTS FOR GRASSLANDS IN
THE GULF COAST PRAIRIE
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Knowing what you did is a whole lot easier than knowing what everyone else did.
Partners of the Gulf Coast Prairie Landscape Conservation Cooperative (LCC) and many others are delivering conservation actions, but these collective efforts are largely kept within separate computer systems (e.g. databases). Ben Kahler will give an overview of the past and current GCP LCC efforts in grassland systems. Specifically, he will provide a short case study of the Oaks & Prairies Joint Venture's use of the Grassland Management Inventory Tool, which could serve as a powerful tool for aggregating and organizing data across organizations and partnerships.
Get more information on how to attend the webinar
Photo: Aransas NWR by Robert Nunnally, Flickr Creative Commons
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COARSE, FINE, AND CONNECTED: GCP LCC'S LANDSCAPE CONSERVATION DESIGN EXPLAINED
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“Landscape Conservation Design is a bridge between biological planning and conservation delivery. We currently lack that bridge; that’s broadly where we are in the Gulf Coast Prairie,” says Ben Kahler, Science Coordinator for the Gulf Coast Prairie Landscape Conservation Cooperative (GCP LCC). “To better focus conservation on the ground, we need to know what our priorities are and focus on achieving our objectives in a way that maximizes our return on investment." The way that the GCP LCC proposes to do this is through a two-pronged approach, called coarse filter and fine filter, respectively.
Read more about planning for habitats, focal species, and the LCC's timeline for its first draft LCD
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