DOI: 10.5061/dryad.vf2jk8n5
title: Data from: A national geographic framework for guiding conservation on a landscape scale

description: The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, along with the global conservation
 community, has recognized that the conservation challenges of the 21st
 century far exceed the responsibilities and footprint of any individual
 agency or program. The ecological effects of climate change and other
 anthropogenic stressors do not recognize geopolitical boundaries and, as
 such, demand a national geographic framework to provide structure for
 cross-jurisdictional and landscape-scale conservation strategies. In 2009,
 a new map of ecologically based conservation regions in which to organize
 capacity and implement strategic habitat conservation was developed using
 rapid prototyping and expert elicitation by an interagency team of U.S.
 Fish and Wildlife Service and U.S. Geological Survey scientists and
 conservation professionals. Incorporating Bird Conservation Regions,
 Freshwater Ecoregions, and U.S. Geological Survey hydrologic unit codes,
 the new geographic framework provides a spatial template for building
 conservation capacity and focusing biological planning and conservation
 design efforts. The Department of Interior's Landscape Conservation
 Cooperatives are being organized in these new conservation regions as
 multi-stakeholder collaborations for improved conservation science and
 management.
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