Landscape Conservation Forecasting Handbook
This handbook explains the origins and purpose of Landscape Conservation Forecasting, designed to help teams map, model, and budget effective management actions. It outlines team roles, funder needs, challenges in model building, and the importance of training in ST-Sim and Syncrosim to support LCF projects in diverse landscapes now and beyond more.
Subject Tags
- Conservation Planning
- Ecosystem management
- Habitat restoration
More Info
The handbook includes topics such as objectives, team building, area selection, building state-and-transition simulation models, concepts of modeling, reporting, and next steps. The report is available at the above right and the associated appendices are here.
Handbook chapters are:
- Choosing a landscape with partners
- Describing ecological systems and vegetation classes to map and simulate
- Mapping vegetation with remote sensing
- The art of building state-and-transition simulation models
- Basic and advanced modeling feastures
- Metrics of success for different land management objectives
- Writing the final report: why and what
- Next steps to increase the reach of Landscape Conservation Forecasting
Significance
Landscape Conservation Forecasting was designed to help agency and private land managers propose, fund, and implement cost effective restoration at large scale.
Citation
Provencher L. 2026. Landscape Conservation Forecasting Handbook. Version 1. Reno, NV, USA. 71 pp.
TNC Authors
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Louis Provencher
Director of Science. Nevada
The Nature Conservancy
Email: lprovencher@tnc.org