Landscape Conservation Cooperatives in the Service's Midwest Region

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What is an LCC?

Landscape Conservation Cooperatives provide scientific and technical support for conservation at "landscape" scales-the entire range of an identified priority species or groups of species. They support biological planning, conservation design, prioritizing and coordinating research, and designing species inventory and monitoring programs. LCCs also have a role in helping partners identify common goals and priorities to target the right science in the right places for efficient and effective conservation. By functioning as network of interdependent units rather than independent entities, LCC partnerships can accomplish a conservation mission no single agency or organization can accomplish LCCs are meant to be cooperative, partnership-oriented entities focused on developing, adapting and coordinating large-scale data and models for field-level use.

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Midwest Regional LCCs

The Midwest is responsible for developing or participating in 5 Landscape Conservation Cooperatives. View Map (link). These occur in the following areas:

Plains and Prairie Potholes

Upper Midwest/Great Lakes

Eastern Tallgrass Prairie and Big Rivers

Gulf Coast Plain/Ozarks

Appalachian

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National LCCs

USFWS National Landscape Conservation Cooperatives

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