Southern Sierra Partnership, CA
Framework for Cooperative Conservation and Climate Adaptation for the Southern Sierra Nevada and Tehachapi Mountains
SSP Framework, Vol. II -Appendix
SPP efforts underway since completing the Framework
Data for this Project is available in Data Basin: SSP Datasets
Presentations, NWF Conference, June 2011:
Cooperative Conservation and Climate-Adaptation in the Southern Sierra Nevada & Tehachapi Mountains, Southern Sierra Partnership Southern Sierra Conservation Cooperative. Presentation Document
Conserving the natural and agricultural legacy of the southern Sierra Nevada and San Joaquin Valley, Sequoia Riverlands Trust. Presentation Document
In early 2009 Audubon California, the Sequoia Riverlands Trust, the Sierra Business Council, and The Nature Conservancy formed the Southern Sierra Partnership (SSP) and launched a collaborative conservation assessment with representatives from ten agencies and organizations for the southern Sierra Nevada and Tehachapi Mountains.
The objectives of this assessment were:
1. Characterize the biodiversity, ecosystem services, ownerships, and land uses in the Southern Sierra and Tehachapis, and assess threats to conservation values.
2. Examine how a changing climate will impact or interact with these threats, and forecast long-term responses in the landscape.
3. Identify conservation opportunities, at project-specific and regional scales, that would allow adaptation to climate change and so ensure maintenance of conservation values.
Based on this assessment, the SSP developed a Regional Conservation Design, or spatial vision that integrates conservation goals, threat projections, and climate change responses to identify areas of the landscape that offer the best opportunities for sustaining biodiversity and ecosystem services. To convert opportunity into action, the SSP recommends strategic approaches for climate adaption across public and private lands in the southern Sierra and Tehachapi Mountains, an area spanning 7 million acres in Fresno, Tulare, and Kern counties.
Southern Sierra Partnership Collaborative Conservation Assessment, June 13, 2011
Webinar recording of a presentation by Conservation Biology Institute's Susan Antenen. Susan discusses SSP's process, lessons learned, and efforts currently underway to implement a Regional Conservation Design that integrates conservation goals, threat projections, and climate change responses to identify areas of the landscape offering the best opportunities for sustaining biodiversity and ecosystem services. She also outlines the strategic approaches for climate adaption across public and private lands in the southern Sierra and Tehachapi Mountains (an area spanning 7 million acres in Fresno, Tulare, and Kern counties).
