LCD Webinar: How the PFLCC is using Scenario Planning for Landscape Conservation Design in Florida
Channel: Conservation and Adaptation Resources Toolbox
Date: 2017-09-30

Presenter: 
Steve Traxler, Science Coordinator, Peninsular Florida Landscape Conservation Cooperative, US Fish and Wildlife Service

This webinar will build on the August webinar on scenario planning collaborative approach discussed by Barry Fradkin of GeoAdaptive, Inc.  The PFLCC has utilized urbanization and climate change scenarios previously developed by USFWS, USGS, and staff at MIT.  These stakeholder-based scenarios initially covered half of Florida and were expanded to the whole state.  The webinar will discuss the development, challenges, and opportunities of the scenarios both at the statewide scale and at smaller more localized scales including a couple of adaptation/scenario planning projects in the Florida Keys.  Steve will discuss management questions and lessons learned from the PFLCC scenarios and the current plan of using the scenarios and conservation targets to develop a Florida landscape conservation design.

About the Presenter:
Steve Traxler works for the US Fish and Wildlife Service as a Science Coordinator for the Peninsular Florida Landscape Conservation Cooperative (PFLCC).  Steve has been working on Everglade’s restoration since 1996 and has been coordinating science for the PFLCC since 2012.   Steve has been coordinating scenarios in Florida since 2008 and was one of the developers of the USFWS NCTC scenario planning class.   Steve’s other projects include climate change and Everglades restoration monitoring and adaptive management.  In his free time, Steve works with a local marine conservation non-profit focused on sea turtle research and education called InWater Research Group, Inc.  His degrees are a Bachelor’s of Science from Florida Institute of Technology and a Masters in fisheries from Texas A & M University.