We’ve added a changelog to the South Atlantic Blueprint 2020 release! As you probably know by now, we like to borrow best practices from the tech world to make the Blueprint more useful. A changelog is an easy-to-read document that captures the significant changes made in each version of a project or software program. So, the [...]
The fall Third Thursday Web Forum schedule is now available, so take a look at our upcoming speakers and mark your calendars! We're switching to Microsoft Teams to conveniently run the audio and video connection through the same platform. As always, these webinars are held on the third Thursday of each month at 10 am [...]
Comments from a North Coastal Plain workshop. We had so much fun hosting two weeks of virtual workshops to review Draft South Atlantic Blueprint 2020! Thanks again to everyone who attended and provided feedback. While we wish we could have met in person, Mural seemed to work pretty well as an online alternative [...]
For the last four months, we've been collaborating with the Southeast Climate Adaptation Science Center to bring you a Summer Science Series of webinars during the regular Third Thursday Web Forum slot. This month, we're back to hosting our own webinars on our usual platform. Here's a flyer to preview the last Third Thursday Web [...]
As Rua mentioned last month, we’ve been working on an exciting update to the South Atlantic Blueprint that uses a better modeling approach, finer spatial resolution, and several new and improved indicators. We're so close to putting a draft online for you to review! The draft priorities are done, and we'll be finishing up corridors [...]
Samworth WMA. Photo courtesy of Emily Purcell, Ducks Unlimited. One of the most common ways folks often use the Blueprint is to strengthen their grant proposals. Often, funders want to know how a proposed project contributes to regional objectives and partner priorities, and the Blueprint can serve as that shared strategy! The indicators [...]
As I mentioned last month, we're partnering with the wonderful folks at the Southeast Climate Adaptation Science Center (SE CASC) to put on a great webinar series this April through July! These webinars will take place in our usual South Atlantic Third Thursday Web Forum Series time slot, on the third Thursday of every month [...]
We have some great speakers lined up for the Third Thursday Web Forum this spring and summer! Starting next month, we're collaborating with the Southeast Climate Adaptation Science Center (SE CASC) to bring you a series of presentations on SE CASC projects relevant to conservation in the South Atlantic region. While we put the finishing [...]
The Rim Fire burned 256,000 acres of Stanislaus National Forest and Yosemite National Park in 2013. Photo by USDA Forest Service/Chris Stewart, CC BY 2.0. Staying on track to meet the SECAS goal will take some creative approaches for funding management actions--especially in the fire-dependent ecosystems of the South Atlantic. Through SECAS, the [...]
Draft South Atlantic Blueprint 2020 is available online
A draft of South Atlantic Blueprint 2020 is now online! You can go ahead and check it out in two ways: Explore it online. Please be patient with some formatting quirks since we're currently migrating to a new platform and still working out the bugs. If the legend doesn’t display for you, just remember that [...]