DE Desert Landscape Conservation Cooperative Funding Opportunity FY15

The Desert Landscape Conservation Cooperative (LCC) is an applied science and conservation partnership that supports the strategic, science-based conservation of natural and cultural resources in the Mojave, Sonoran, and Chihuahuan Deserts and the montane "sky islands" within this region in the U.S. and Mexico. For a map of the Desert LCC geographic area, visit: http://www.usbr.gov/dlcc/resources/map.cfm. On behalf of the Desert LCC, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is soliciting proposals for applied scientific work to inform resource management decisions that address landscape-scale stressors, as described below.

The Desert Landscape Conservation Cooperative is embarking on a Climate-Smart Landscape Conservation Planning and Design project that will:

• produce spatially explicit data and information about focal resources, chosen by the Desert LCC members;
• seek to understand the effects of climate change and other landscape stressors on natural resources;
• integrate social and economic information to understand what these resources might look like in the future; and
• result in collaborative adaptation responses that are useful and implementable by our partners.