What are the goals of the CA LCC?

  • Fosters collaboration and integration of science and management. Brings together conservation science and management actions across ecosystems at a landscape scale, leveraging the capabilities of respective agencies/organizations/ partnerships, and provides a common picture of on-going conservation efforts.
  • Supports development of technical products for natural resource management. Assists to identify landscape scale indicators, test scientific assumptions, and evaluate effectiveness of conservation actions to inform effective adaptive management strategies.
  • Facilitates information acquisition, interpretation, translation, exchange and availability. Provides scientific information and decision support tools for natural resource management decisions and actions to support resource resilience.
  • Communicates information within and outside the LCC Community. Communicates relevant science information and CA LCC activities and opportunities to partners and stakeholders. Advocates for collaborative conservation and seeks to leverage capabilities and support.

CA LCC Guiding Principles

  1. Supports and enhances cooperation across ownership and management boundaries. The CA LCC does not own or manage property, nor seeks to influence ownership conditions.
  2. Provides agencies with additional science information and tools to help them address issues impacting management of wildlife and associated ecosystems. The CA LCC does not supersede federal, state, local and tribal natural resource management authorities.
  3. Provides enhanced scientific capabilities to help conservation delivery in consideration of climate change. The CA LCC is not a vehicle for conservation delivery.
  4. Strengthens existing partnerships by providing new Strengthens existing partnerships by providing new science capacity to help them address their priority conservation needs. The CA LCC does not replace or supplant existing conservation partnerships.
  5. Solicits input and participation from their agency/organization and provides their management, technical staff, colleagues, and/or constituents updates and