Southeast Conservation Adaptation Strategy
SECAS brings together public and private organizations around a bold vision for the future of our region. We're connecting the lands and waters of the Southeast and Caribbean to support healthy ecosystems, thriving fish and wildlife populations, and vibrant communities. With a data-driven spatial plan and an ambitious regional goal, SECAS helps accelerate conservation action in the places where it will make the biggest impact.
From the blog
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SECAS map. Meet three new members of the user support team
Over the past couple of months, SECAS has welcomed three new staff members working on user support for the Southeast Conservation Blueprint. Here you can get to know them a little bit better! If you want to reach out to someone on the user support team to get help using the Blueprint, you can find contact information on the SECAS staff page.
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Map of the military operations areas and conservation focal areas within the recently designated Northwest Florida Sentinel Landscape. Conservation focal areas incorporated data from the Southeast Conservation Blueprint, Florida Ecological Greenways Network, and the military mission footprint. How the Blueprint is helping support conservation and the military mission
The intersection of conservation and the military mission has emerged as a prominent theme in our recent work with user support. The user support team has assisted with several use cases lately where the military community has used the Southeast Conservation Blueprint and other complementary data to strengthen proposals to establish new Sentinel Landscapes, and to inform conservation planning to better sustain both natural and cultural resources and the military mission. I thought this would be a good topic for a “user story roundup” to share some examples of how the Blueprint can help advance shared goals in this arena!
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Improvements to the fire frequency indicator made after workshops, shown in Daniel Boone National Forest, KY. Progress update on addressing Blueprint workshop comments
All those comments from the recent Blueprint workshops have been super helpful in figuring out what to improve before finalizing this year’s version. As I mentioned during the workshops and in my blog from last month, we’re improving what we can this year and documenting issues we can’t fix so we can cue them up for next year’s update cycle. Here’s a sense of some improvements to expect in the final version.
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