Spring has sprung, and you know what that means! It's time for every plant in the northern hemisphere to release a choking cloud of pollen designed to reduce the human race to a sniffy, sneezy mess! And also, there's a new set of Third Thursday Web Forum speakers to look forward to. Tune in on the [...]
I'm so pleased to unveil a new resource to help you use the Blueprint---an online user guide! We made one for the South Atlantic Blueprint, to support grants and inform decisions in the South Atlantic geography. We also made a separate one for the Southeast Blueprint, for Blueprint uses that extend beyond the South Atlantic into [...]
The government shutdown threw a wrench in our Third Thursday Web Forum lineup this winter. We've rescheduled the January talk for February and updated the flyer. Hope you'll join us! >>Click here for an interactive pdf of the flyer, with functioning links.
The State of the South Atlantic and the South Atlantic Conservation Blueprint are featured in the "Recommended Practices for Landscape Conservation Design" guide released just this week. Landscape Conservation Design, or LCD, refers to a collaborative approach to spatial conservation planning across a large area---the same sort of process we've used to develop the Blueprint [...]
You might remember my post back in August covering an update to the "SECAS in Action" story map. I'm happy to say the rest of the website wasn't far behind! The website keeps the same look and feel. We've just refreshed the content to reflect the most current information about SECAS, the Southeast Blueprint, how [...]
This summer has flown by! It's hard to believe that it's already time to share our fall Third Thursday Web Forum schedule. We have some really interesting topics lined up for September, October, and November. I hope you'll tune in on the Third Thursday of each month at 10 am. >>Click here for an interactive [...]
Earlier this year, The Nature Conservancy (TNC) in South Carolina started using the Southeast Blueprint to inform an update of their South Carolina Conservation Vision, which is their statewide map of conservation priorities. The state of South Carolina contains two different Blueprints---the South Atlantic Blueprint and the Appalachian NatureScape Merged Design. The Southeast Blueprint provided [...]
The American Planning Association (APA) has finished their report on using the South Atlantic Blueprint to improve the integration between the natural and built environments! This report is intended as a resource for both planners and conservation professionals, to help them better depict areas and actions of shared conservation interest near and within cities. This is the [...]
For the last several years, the Triangle Climate and Landscape' Researchers Brown Bag has provided a chance for anyone in the Raleigh area working in the fields of landscape conservation or climate change to meet face-to-face, share lessons learned, and find opportunities to collaborate. The format has changed somewhat over time, but the South Atlantic [...]
We talk a lot about how folks are using the South Atlantic Blueprint, but what about other examples throughout the Southeast? As you may already know, the South Atlantic Blueprint integrates with other regional priorities to create a Southeast-wide Blueprint as part of the Southeast Conservation Adaptation Strategy, or SECAS. Rua and I have been [...]