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Upper Tennessee River Basin Strategy Communications Subteam - March 2016 Call by Jessica Rhodes, last updated: Jun 02, 2025 01:11 PM
Notes from the Upper Tennessee River Basin Strategy Communications subteam call on March 7, 2016.
UTRB Imperiled Aquatic Species Conservation Strategy Presentaion - Schulz 2015 by Jessica Rhodes, last updated: Jun 02, 2025 01:11 PM
Powerpoint presentation of an overiew of the Imperiled Aquatic Species Strategy for the Upper Tennessee River Basin presented by Cindy Schulz on January 30, 2015.
Using a structured decision making process for strategic conservation of imperiled aquatic species in the Upper Tennessee River Basin by Jessica Rhodes, last updated: Jun 02, 2025 01:11 PM
Development of strategic conservation of imperiled species faces several large challenges, including uncertainty in species response to management actions, budgetary constraints that limit options, and issues with scaling expected conservation benefits from local to landscape levels and from single to multiple species. We used a structured decision making process and a multi-scale approach to identify a cost-effective conservation strategy for the imperiled aquatic species in the Upper Tennessee River Basin (UTRB), which face a variety of threats. The UTRB, which encompasses a landscape of 22,360 square miles primarily in Virginia, North Carolina, and Tennessee, harbors one of the most globally diverse assemblages of freshwater fishes and mussels occurring at temperate latitudes. In developing the strategy, we sought to identify which management actions to emphasize to best achieve recovery of imperiled aquatic species, given costs and uncertainty in management effectiveness. The strategy was developed for conservation implementation over a 20-year period, with periodic review and revision. In this presentation, we describe the ecological significance of the UTRB, the planning process, and the resulting strategy. A strategic emphasis on population management emerged as the optimal approach for achieving conservation of imperiled aquatic species in the UTRB, which aligns well with the goals of existing plans for conserving and recovering imperiled fishes and mussels in the UTRB. The structured planning process and resulting conservation strategy dovetail with the landscape approach to conservation embodied in the USFWS’s strategic habitat conservation approach and network of Landscape Conservation Cooperatives. The recorded webinar is also available for viewing at the following link: http://www.fws.gov/northeast/science/seminars/July2015.html.
Hydrologic Units within the Tennessee River Basin by Jessica Rhodes, last updated: Jun 02, 2025 01:11 PM
Unit name and total area (square miles) for 2, 4, 6, and 8 digit hydrologic units within the Tennessee River System.
Population Performance Criteria to Evaluate Reintroduction and Recovery of Two Endangered Mussel Species, Epioblasma brevidens and Epioblasma capsaeformis by Jessica Rhodes, last updated: Jun 02, 2025 01:11 PM
Genetic and demographic modeling of two endangered mussel species, Epioblasma brevidens and E. capsaeformis, in the Clinch River, U.S.A., was conducted to determine quantitative criteria to evaluate performance of extant and reintroduced populations. Reintroduction modelling indicated that the initial population size created during a 5 year build-up phase greatly affected final population size at 25 years, being similar to the population size at the end of the build-up phase, especially when population growth rate was low. Excluding age 0 individuals, age 1 juveniles or recruits on average comprised approximately 11% and 15% of a stable population of each species, respectively. Age-class distribution of a stable or growing population was characterized by multiple cohorts, including juvenile recruits, sub-adults, and adults. Because of current barriers to dispersal and the low dispersal capability of some mussel species, reintroductions will play a prominent role in restoring populations in the United States.
Plan for the Population Restoration and Conservation of Imperiled Freshwater Mollusks of the Cumberland Region by Jessica Rhodes, last updated: Jun 02, 2025 01:11 PM
The goal of this Plan is to provide a framework for the restoration of freshwater mollusk resources and their ecological functions to appropriate reaches of the Cumberlandian Region through the reintroduction, augmentation (R/A) and controlled propagation of priority mollusks. The Plan prioritizes propagation and R/A activities for Region mollusks and provides guidelines for resource managers and recovery partners. The Plan is not a legal document and is not intended to replace or supersede published recovery plans for listed mollusks.
Map of Listed, Proposed, and Candidate Fish and Mussels in the UTRB by Jessica Rhodes, last updated: Jun 02, 2025 01:11 PM
Map depicting the number of listed, proposed, and candidate fish and mussel species within each 12-digit HUC within the Upper Tennessee River Basin. Occurrences include extant and historical records. Areas within the UTRB boundary not shaded by a color in the key have no records of imperiled fish and mussel species occurrences.
Map of Listed, Proposed, and Candidate Mussels in the UTRB by Jessica Rhodes, last updated: Jun 02, 2025 01:11 PM
Map depicting the number of listed, proposed, and candidate mussel species within each 12-digit HUC within the Upper Tennessee River Basin. Occurrences include extant and historical records. Areas within the UTRB boundary not shaded by a color in the key have no records of imperiled mussel species occurrences.
Map of Listed, Proposed, and Candidate Fish in the UTRB by Jessica Rhodes, last updated: Jun 02, 2025 01:11 PM
Map depicting the number of listed, proposed, and candidate fish species within each 12-digit HUC within the Upper Tennessee River Basin. Occurrences include extant and historical records. Areas within the UTRB boundary not shaded by a color denoted in the key have no records of imperiled fish species occurrences.
Map of Federally Listed Species within the UTRB in Tennessee by Jessica Rhodes, last updated: Jun 02, 2025 01:11 PM
Map of Listed and candidate aquatic species in the Upper Tennessee hydrologic sub-unit of Tennessee.
Map of Federally Listed Aquatic Species in Virginia Portion of UTRB by Jessica Rhodes, last updated: Jun 02, 2025 01:11 PM
Map depicting listed and candidate aquatic species in the Upper Tennessee hydrologic sub-unit of Virginia.
Fact Sheet: Riparian Restoration Decision Support Tool by Matthew Cimitile, last updated: Jun 02, 2025 01:11 PM
An innovative web-based tool - funded by the Appalachian Landscape Conservation Cooperative (LCC) and developed by researchers from the U.S. Forest Service and the University of Massachusetts - is allowing managers to rapidly identify high-priority riparian targets for restoration to make more resilient in preparation for changes in future climate. The Riparian Restoration Prioritization to Promote Climate Change Resilience (RPCCR) tool identifies vulnerable stream and riverbanks that lack tree cover and shade in coldwater stream habitats. By locating the best spots to plant trees in riparian zones, resource managers can provide shade that limits the amount of solar radiation heating the water and reduces the impacts from climate change. This well-established management strategy will benefit high-elevation, cold-water aquatic communities.
Report: Riparian Prioritization and Status Assessment for Climate Change Resilience of Coldwater Stream Habitats within the Appalachian and Northeastern Regions by RPCCR Research Team, last updated: Jun 02, 2025 01:11 PM
Among a host of other critical ecosystem functions, intact riparian forests can help to reduce vulnerability of coldwater stream habitats to warming regional temperatures. Restoring and conserving these forests can therefore be an important part of regional and landscape-scale conservation plans, but managers need science and decision-support tools to help determine when these actions will be most effective. To help fill this need, we developed the Riparian Prioritization for Climate Change Resilience (RPCCR) web-based decision support tool to quickly and easily identify, based on current riparian cover and predicted vulnerability to air temperature warming, sites that are priority candidates for riparian restoration and conservation.
Riparian Restoration Decision Support Tool by Matthew Cimitile, last updated: Jun 02, 2025 01:11 PM
An innovative riparian planting and restoration decision support tool is now available to the conservation community. This user-friendly tool allows managers and decision-makers to rapidly identify and prioritize areas along the banks of rivers, streams, and lakes for restoration, making these ecosystems more resilient to disturbance and future changes in climate. It will also help the conservation community invest limited conservation dollars wisely, helping to deliver sustainable resources.
The eDNAtlas and Archive for aquatic taxa in Western North America by Web Editor, last updated: Jun 02, 2025 01:11 PM
The ease, efficiency, and sensitivity of environmental DNA (eDNA) sampling of species in aquatic environments is leading to an explosion in its use across North America.
The Stream Continuity Portal by Tab Manager, last updated: Jun 02, 2025 01:11 PM
This aquatic connectivity portal is a one-stop shop for tools and regional collaboratives focused on aquatic organism passage (“fish passage”) and fragmentation of river and stream ecosystems. It is a starting place for stakeholders, users, and tool developers looking to keep track of the latest initiatives and better identify opportunities for collaboration and action. This portal is maintained by the North Atlantic Aquatic Connectivity Collaborative (NAACC). More coming soon!
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation Awards $1.3 Million in Grants to Conserve Habitat in the Southeast’s Cumberland Plateau by Globe Newswire, last updated: Jun 02, 2025 01:11 PM
Seven projects will preserve forest and stream habitats, benefiting game species, forest-dependent birds, and fish and mussel species
WLFW Partner Workspace by Web Editor, last updated: Jun 02, 2025 01:11 PM
Private workspace for WLFW partners.
New “Bobscapes” Mobile App Helps Establish National Bobwhite Database by Rosanne Hessmiller, last updated: Jun 02, 2025 12:57 PM
Although the bobwhite is one of the most researched birds in the country and perhaps the world, scientists still don’t have a solid understanding of the quail’s population distribution across its range. To help alleviate this problem, NRCS has been working with Quail Forever and the University of Georgia Gamebird and Managed Ecosystems Lab as part of the Working Lands for Wildlife – Northern Bobwhite Quail Partnership to develop a new mobile app called Bobscapes
Register or login to use the Data Layer Library by Tracy Clark, last updated: Jun 02, 2025 10:38 AM