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Assessing Future Energy Development Across the Appalachians
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The rapid pace of new energy development coupled with more aggressive methods for extracting traditional fuels pose substantial risks to some of the Appalachians most cherished lands, waterways, and wildlife. Currently, little effort has been paid to the effect of energy development on the swaths of relatively intact, recovering forest habitat that define the Central Appalachian Region. This project employs land use change build-out scenarios from future energy development demand to quantify future impacts on forest habitats across the Appalachian LCC.
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Assessing Future Energy Development Across the Appalachians
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Assessing Future Energy Development across the Appalachian LCC used models that combined data on energy development trends and identified where these may intersect with important natural resource and ecosystem services to give a more comprehensive picture of what potential energy development could look like in the Appalachians. Ultimately this information is intended to support dialogue and conservation on how to effectively avoid, minimize, and offset impacts from energy development to important natural areas and the valuable services they provide.
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Development of a Spatially Explicit Surface Coal Mining Predictive Model
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The goal of this project was to create a spatially explicit 1km2 grid cell model for the Appalachian Landscape Conservation Cooperative (Figure 1) predicting where surface coal mining is likely to occur in in a projected future time period, under two different scenarios. To accomplish this goal we combined GIS spatial analysis, a Random Forests predictive model, and future mining buildout scenarios. This report provides a detailed methodology of our approach and discussion of our results.
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Assessing Future Impacts of Energy Extraction in the Appalachian LCC
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4th Quarter 2013 Progress report
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Q4 2013 Reporting Materials and Reviews
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Progress Report for Quarter 2, 2013
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Report from Vendor The Nature Conservancy on progress for Energy Forecast Project.
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Q2 2013 Reporting Materials and Reviews
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Abstract and Progress Report for 3rd Quarter, 2012
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Abstract and progress report from the Vendor for the Energy Forecasts Project.
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Q3 2012 Reporting Materials and Reviews
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Q3 2012 Reporting Materials from Vendor
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Q3 2012 Reviews By Technical Oversight Team
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This file contains the combined technical comments of TOT members for the Energy Forecasts project.
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Assessing Forest Fragmentation from Marcellus Shale Gas Development
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Expansion of drilling sites and associated infrastructure to extract natural gas from the Marcellus shale deposits has the potential to significantly reduce existing forest cover across the Marcellus field and leave what remains in a fragmented state.
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