Upland Habitat Goals receives support from Landscape Conservation Cooperative (LCC)

The Open Space Council's Upland Habitat Goals project just got one big step closer to being complete.  We learned yesterday that we will receive support from the Landscape Conservation Cooperatives (LCC) and we are so grateful and excited!  Our thanks goes to the Interim Steering Committee of the LCC of Region 8, Pacific Southwest.  Thank you!

Eleven projects that will help to build a foundation of  information and lead to decision-support tools for resource managers including species assessments, habitat conditions, and data and monitoring protocols have received $858,007 under a new collaborative program called the Landscape Conservation Cooperatives (LCC). Facilitated by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, this program focuses on landscape-scale planning and collaboration across science and management disciplines to address the conservation challenges necessitated by climate change.  

The press release about the grants can be found here.  More information about the California Landscape Conservation Cooperative is available here. 

Learn more about the Upland Habitat Goals project:

• The project's website
• Last week's blog post about the Climate Change Workshop at Pepperwood Preserve