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A MESSAGE FROM NatureServe Board Chair and President Board Chair Nicole Firlotte habitats. and species Earth’s threatened and rare, about unique, knowledge up-to-date fingertips, to their at access, has everyone where a world creating are we Together, achievement: recent Rico’s protection of16%its territory. Puerto as such outcomes conservation successful in different resulting evaluate use, land in conflicts of scenarios to decision-makers for public-privatecollaborations empowerOur decisions best Bay.Chesapeake the like the places important make to layers data 300 user- over and reports access visual friendly now planet. biodiversity can the Conservationists on measure us country every for and allow trends analyze now to Dashboard the Biodiversity Indicators as such tools Innovative of ourNetwork. power the of because impact global havea data-gathering ground” the on “boots and onthe flora and most fauna our need, in expertise citizen aspotlight rediscovering engaging shining and scientists, species, From lost the precious things. half, a accomplished amazing and has year Network NatureServe past the Over action. to provide the mission science that drives our conservation supporting for you Thank fill agrowing need. to these and multiply Effective Institutions, and Creative for Award MacArthur the by recognized achievements and success past on build will we years, few next the Over important trends. the and knowledge biodiversity our advance scientific through possible for enduring direction that will focus on our shared vision strategic new a developing is NatureServe our planet inachangingworld. for reliable, decisions best the make with to them forefront toguide the information backed scientifically at be promise We to face. decision-makers that challenges and opportunities both be will there conservation, biodiversity of future the to ahead look we ever. As than timely NatureServe’sis more mission urgent and President and CEO Miller Gregory innovations made success, conservation e eeo t uncover to develop we that discoveries Carol Wise Jonathan Wilfong Nancy Weiss Tom Smith Bill Ruckelshaus Rick Ridgeway Nancy Mathews Ed Kfoury KnightGary Huber Sherry Carolyn Hendricks Paul Hagen Andrew Kaiser Lucas Joppa Jim Geringer Jack Dangermond Martha Boudreau Tracy Austin Mike Andrews Council Advisors Strategic Gregory Miller-ex officio James Thorsell Candace Taylor-Anderson Alberto Székely Aníbal Ramírez Soto Dick Raines Kimberly Nelson Urban Lehner Robert Hoguet DJ Evans James Brumm Sayles Braga Marcia Angle J. Douglas Ripley - Secretary Treasurer AnnLawlerMary - Sabra Tonn - ViceChair MasterLarry - ViceChair Nicole Firlotte - Chair Directors Board of

BIODIVERSITY FOR NETWORK The Americas’ decisions aboutourplanet rely onNatureServe. Critical NatureServe. into up rolled is expertise and information their biodiversity,and local their on experts the are professionals These countries. American Latin dozen a over and programs provinces, 80 Canadian state, over U.S. every in in Network our in professionals 1,000 over are There uniform, harmonized way of collecting and analyzing biodiversity information. What makes NatureServe unique is that we’ve established an internationally and share itwiththeworld. we collect Andes, ecosystems 7,000 to and species 70,000 than more datascientific detailed for Arctic the From of comprehensive, data. biodiversity source decision-quality authoritative an is Network NatureServe The NatureServe |2 The NatureServe Network

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We ask questions about biodiversity: What is it? Where is it? How is it doing? Our answers guide decision-makers about where to focus, in order to leverage and amplify conservation efforts.

AMERICAN MARTEN (Martes americana) NatureServe Status: Secure (G5) | Image by Larry Master

From visually stunning maps to compelling Every good decision starts with good infographics to podcasts and videos, we information. We make it possible—and INNOVATION create online tools that deliver scientific CONSERVATION easy—for people to use accurate, current knowledge into the hands of the people scientific information as the basis for their who need it. conservation decisions and subsequent actions. NATURESERVE DISCOVERS Getting our hands dirty, venturing to parts unknown, identifying with a keen eye - these are the hallmarks of biodiversity discovery, and Read the full stories at

DISCOVERY what the NatureServe Network does everyday. www.natureserve.org/news-and- NEEDLES IN A HAYSTACK events/stories LEFT - The government of the Northwest Territories believes there may be as few as A CENTURY LOST 15-20,000 hairy braya (Braya pilosa) plants Collaboration between left in existence: a new plan, developed with NatureServe and the data from the NatureServe Network, brings Maryland Natural new hope to the fate of this plant. Heritage Program has RIGHT - The Saskatchewan Conservation resulted in the rediscovery Data Centre documented the occurrence of eight species, including of daisy-leaved Moonwort (Botrychium this rock goldenrod matricariifolium) in Saskatchewan for the (Solidago rupestris) which first time. Photo by Jim Harris Photo by Arthur Haines hadn’t been documented in the state in 112 years| NEW NAMESAKE Photo by Wes Knapp NatureServe Network Program Biologist Bruce Bennett, of the Yukon Conservation Data Centre, has a new flower to his name - after his discovery of it, the Draba bruce- bennettii has been officially entered into the botany books.

Photos by Jim Harris

CONSERVATION CLUES Fieldwork by the Atlantic Canada FROM THE FIELD Conservation Data Centre (AC CDC) along he flower had not been seen in NatureServe Network programs are on the frontlines everyday New Brunswick’s eastern shore, documented 21 new occurrences of a poorly understood Maryland since Teddy Roosevelt was for biodiversity. Here are a few stories from the field. President of the United States. It was spider wasp species, known only by its T scientific nameCeropales bipunctata. believed to be locally extinct. But thanks to the shared scientific information and expertise in the NatureServe Network, Wes Knapp, botanist with the NatureServe Network’s Maryland Natural Heritage Photos by John Klymko Program, knew what to look for and where. INTO THE DEPTHS Rock goldenrod is important for both the Milo Pyne of NatureServe, Dusty Pate of the local ecosystem and for human health. National Park Service, Erin Hoy and Stephanie Sattler of USGS Upper Midwest Environmental Bees, butterflies, moths, and others “Shared standards Sciences Center access remote areas of Jean visit goldenrod for nectar and pollen. Lafitte National Historic Park and Preserve by Caterpillars eat the leaves and stems, and and methods, airboat to build a map of its quickly-changing birds then prey on the insects goldenrod combined with plant communities affected by sea-level rise. attracts. There is even a goldenrod spider our database, that specializes in hiding on these plants. can provide fast Wes knew to look for the rock goldenrod turnaround on Photos By: Rickie White because it was on a list, assembled by conservation SURVEYING THE FUTURE NatureServe botanist Amanda Treher, of questions, like ‘which Antonio Tovar, Rocío Vásquez, Paola 131 species that occurred in neighboring rare species should Matayoshi of the CDC de Perú survey forests states and had a similar potential to be and scrubland areas in the Andes of the I look for along my Southern Peru to determine vulnerability to found in Maryland. state borders?” climate change and anthropogenic activities. This collaboration resulted in the - WES KNAPP rediscovery of 8 species, including the rock goldenrod.

Photos by John Klymko

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NatureServe Network Programs Discover Bat Outside of Range, New to Minnesota and Wisconsin

single female evening bat (Nycticeius humeralis), historically found south of central Iowa, was unexpectedly caught near Minneapolis, MN in early July. On a separate project in Rock County, WI, about 160 individuals A were sighted during June and July. During two recent projects monitoring for forest bats, research teams with Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (MDNR) and Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources made these exciting independent discoveries. The Minnesota team’s lead wildlife biologist and NatureServe Network member, Rich Baker, told NatureServe about their find in a recent Q&A.

Read the full Interview at www.natureserve.org/news-and-events/ stories YOUR PASSION, OUR DISCOVERY SCIENCE iscovering species in the Beginning with a sunrise bird Director at the Triangle Land wild is not just for scientists! walk, over 400 observations of Conservancy. “The information DIn October, Nearly 100 nearly 200 species were made collected during the BioBlitz volunteers - naturalists, students, and documented using iNaturalist allows us to better understand kids, parents, and community throughout the day. Children Brumley Forest and its role in the members - spent a day exploring engaged through educational region.” Brumley Forest Nature Preserve games, local experts held with scientists. How did they help? demonstrations and volunteers The data can also help They documented nearly 200 explored the pond, wetland area, inform scientists at the North different species, information that and wooded trails in the park. Carolina Heritage Program— will inform conservation for many NatureServe’s member program years to come. The information collected will in the state—who are responsible guide Triangle Land Conservancy’s for tracking and managing The Brumley BioBlitz—a one-day management plans for the park’s information on all rare plants and bonanza of exploration to find, future. Brumley Forest is slated animals in North Carolina. photograph, and document as to open Spring of 2017 and will many plants and animals as possible become a treasured location for Many thanks to our BioBlitz in the 613-acre Brumley Forest both recreation and conservation. sponsors: Duke Energy Learning Nature Preserve—was organized Outside, Syngenta, and The Fresh by NatureServe and Triangle Land “Knowing what lives here helps Market Conservancy to harness the passion us take care of the land so future of the local community to inventory generations can continue to the plant and animal species hidden uncover its unique natural gems,” in this special place. said Sandy Sweitzer, Executive

ABOVE: Marbled Salamander (Ambystoma opacum) caught during the Brumley BioBlitz NatureServe Status: Secure (G5) Image by Caroline Gilmore

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ImagesImages fromfrom thethe BrumleyBrumley BioblitzBioblitz byby 9 | NatureServe CarolineCaroline GilmoreGilmore NATURESERVE INNOVATES The NatureServe Network’s data is widely used Take a stroll through Rock Creek Park, nearly 1,800 acres - add tools that innovate applied conservation SEE THE that twist through the heart of our nation’s capital. Stop for and you start to see the power of the network. a breather at Picnic Area 16 and scan the panorama offered INNOVATION by one of the country’s oldest national parks. Head to the WORLD nearest hilltop—and here, hugging the steep rocky slopes, you’ll see the distinctive, twisted dark stems of mountain THROUGH laurel crowding underneath the canopy of oaks and American beech. THE EYES OF Sound like a great day? Explore Natural Communities (ENC) is UNITING now available as your pocket naturalist - a walk-through tour A NATURALIST of the natural world that surrounds you at Rock Creek Park, AROUND THE soon to expand to more parks in the National Capital Region. CHESAPEAKE Visit LandScope.org to get started

s a geographer at U.S. Geological Survey Chesapeake Bay Program Office, Renee Thompson is focused on conserving and preserving those areas that the Bay Watershed states have Map of natural Aidentified as high value or ecologically significant. Using LandScope communities at Rock Creek Park created Chesapeake to visualize the healthy watersheds and comparing them by NatureServe with the protected lands data, she gets an idea of areas she and her and National Park team may want to begin targeting for more detailed threat analysis. Service available at “This service saves me time… with all the built-in map reference layers it explorenatural is even easier to visualize and answer a number of conservation related communities.org questions.”

As a formal collaboration between NatureServe, Chesapeake watershed states, the National Park Service (NPS), and U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), LandScope Chesapeake supports professionals like Renee, as well as larger collaborations among conservation partners. Together this achieves a publicly accessible, watershed-wide land conservation priority system.

LandScope took strides in 2015-2016. In the Chesapeake Bay Watershed alone over 60 map layers were updated or added including a Resilience to Climate Change layer produced by USGS that spans the Northeast. There was also incredible progress made on the reporting tool. Users can now use the map to find out what land trusts are working in the counties or watersheds around them. Water depth (darker blue is deeper) in the Chesapeake created by NOAA, available for viewing at landscope.org

Find mobile accessible interactive maps, build hikes, and find markers for the interactive tour at explorenatural µµ communities.org

11 | NatureServe INNOVATION The fight to protect the biodiversity of our planet is a global one he Biodiversity Indicators Dashboard is now live. At THE NEW dashboard.natureserve.org you will access a groundbreaking Tinternational data collaboration - the single location for tracking how countries are working toward their biodiversity BIODIVERSITY conservation goals.

How successful are our efforts to conserve biodiversity? Increasingly, we need to measure how well our actions achieve their goals. The Biodiversity Indicators Dashboard unites diverse metrics that chart progress towards the Convention on Biological INDICATORS Diversity’s “Aichi Biodiversity Targets” (agreed-upon biodiversity targets for each country).

This new resource allows users to measure, visualize, and communicate environmental trends like how fast forests are DASHBOARD being lost in a given river basin, as well as consider the effects of conservation actions like the increase of protected area coverage of Key Biodiversity Areas. With these data, users then track progress toward global conservation goals, easily monitor and report progress nationally, and make informed outcome-based policy decisions for sustaining biodiversity.

In March 2016, NatureServe staff attended a meeting in Ispra, Italy European Commission Joint Research Centre, the Biodiversity Indicators Partnership, UNEP-WCMC, IUCN, and others to collaborate more closely on the development and visualization of biodiversity indicators. This resulted in the incorporation of a new indicator for trends in area burned each year. This map is now available on the site and is shown here as the background map.

Get Started at: dashboard.natureserve.org Fire Occurrence: United States of America Percent of Area Burned All Ecoregions (2012) On the website, click on a country to explore data in more depth. For the United States, this trend chart shows fire occurrence. 0 - 1 % The amount of area burned has increased over the period 2 - 5 % 2002-2012. In 2012, 24,670 km2 were burned, accounting for 6 - 10 % 0.26% of the land area. The Biodiversity Indicators Dashboard is made possible with support from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and with the collaboration of our partners, 11 - 15 % Data Source: Joint Research Centre including The ASEAN Centre for Biodiversity, Biodiversity Indicators Partnership, BirdLife International, the European Commission, GBIF, IUCN, and UNEP-WCMC 16 - 25 %

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uerto Rico’s Protected Areas Fernando Lloveras San Miguel, President Conservation Action Team (PA-CAT), of Para La Naturaleza celebrated this “as celebrated the announcement that a major step in our mission to achieve the Puerto PPuerto Rico has achieved protection of protection of 33 percent of our territory 16% of its territory. The decisions about for 2033. Our commitment is to keep which lands to protect were based on moving us in this direction to protect the Rico sound science from the NatureServe vital ecosystems that Puerto Rico needs to Network. survive, while we strengthen our position as a destination for nature.” protects Para La Naturaleza, a non-profit conservation organization and member of the PA-CAT, worked with NatureServe to 16 % of its develop a balanced approach to Puerto Rico’s national land use plan, which helps to conserve iconic Puerto Rican species territory like coquií tree frogs and the Puerto Rican parrot. NatureServe helped them evaluate different scenarios of conflicts in land use, identify how well the plan would conserve biodiversity and where key conflicts might remain. The Puerto Rican rock frog (Eleuthero- dactylus cooki) has been federally listed as a threatened species in the U.S.| Pho- to by USFWS

The rusty-patched bumble bee (Bombus affinis) has been federally listed as an endangered spe- A ONCE COMMON cies in the U.S., reflecting its high degree of imper- ilment and NatureServe G1 - Critically Imperiled SPECIES IN PERIL rank | Photo by USGS

he NatureServe Network has worked diligently to track the rusty -patched bumble bee across its range in eastern and central North America. Bearing witness to one of the most dramatic species Tdeclines in recorded history, NatureServe assessed the species as G1 - Critically Imperiled. NatureServe scientists have found that what was once was a very widespread bumble bee has suffered a catastrophic decline that started in the late 1990s. The decline, in numbers and area of occupancy, has almost certainly been over 99% and reduction in range extent around 90% over a period of less than a decade.

The rusty-patched bumble bee may be well on the way to extinction, perhaps within the current Protected Areas This map shows the protected decade, but other outcomes are possible. With information from the NatureServe Network, the species Marine areas in Puerto Rico now has been federally listed and is now protected under the U.S. Endangered Species Act as of March 2017. Terrestrial making up 16% of its territory Listing is just the first step. Swift and intense conservation actions are needed to save this species and related bumble bees, some of our most important pollinators, from extinction.

NatureServe | 18 SHARING A COMMON LANGUAGE Data from a single jurisdiction paints only part of the picture about most species and ecological communities. Training people in the BIODIVERSITY WITHOUT

LEADERSHIP use of standards allows NatureServe to combine biodiversity data sets across boundaries. BOUNDARIES In April, NatureServe held the Biodiversity Without Boundaries (BWB) 2016 conference in the biodiversity-rich, abundant, and beautiful Puerto Rico. In collaboration with Puerto Rico Network Partners - the Puerto Rico Department of Environmental and Natural Resources (DRNA) and the leading environmental and educational nonprofit Para la Naturaleza - the NatureServe Network’s annual conference convened hundreds of great minds for a week of plenaries, symposia, workshops, panels, presentations, and field sessions. NatureServe’s 80+ Network Programs, as well as our partners from federal and state agencies, corporations, and other conservation-focused institutions and enthusiasts came together to discuss conservation challenges, celebrate successes, collaborate on new initiatives, share innovations, and design the future.

Photos from BWB2016 in San Juan, Puerto Rico and El Yunque National Forest

A COURSE OF ACTION FOR CORE METHODOLOGY TRAINING MANGROVES It is a warm, sunny day in April, and two white vans filled with ecologists, Mangrove forests are critically important ecosystems. These forests, found botanists, zoologists, GIS specialists, data managers, and other conservation in coastal regions of Latin America and the Caribbean, provide habitat toa professionals head to the Maryland side of Great Falls National Park. The site on wide diversity of fish, crab, shrimp, and mollusk species, and provide food for Cabin John Island is a floodplain forest home to a unique mix of species including thousands of coastal communities. Mangroves also serve as a natural barrier the vulnerable buttercup scorpionweed (Phacelia covillei) and the beautiful white against extreme weather events, are one of the most efficient ecosystems for trout-lily (Erythronium albidum). This group is attending the first day of the 2016 carbon sequestration, and have high timber potential. Despite laws that protect Core Methodology Training (CMT) - a training session that has been offered mangroves in Latin America and the Caribbean, these forests are threatened by 122 times since 1974. The trainees are learning how critical it is to understand human activities that have resulted in drastic declines in fisheries, loss of water NatureServe methodology when observing and collecting information in the field. quality, and have made communities more vulnerable to climate change.

Over the past 40 years, NatureServe has developed, and refined, the methods that Enter Pronatura Veracruz A.C. This NatureServe Network Program organizes inform how species and ecosystems are tracked using Biotics 5, a spatially-based a 4-month Mangrove Ecological Restoration and Forest Management Course. data management system, so that the data are comparable across jurisdictional Attendees exchange experiences and skills from across the wider network, many of boundaries and create information meaningful to conservation decision-makers. whom reside in different regions, yet experience similar environmental problems. Our rigorous, scientifically-based methodology is the reason our data are the most Topics of discussion include strategies for community organization and training, widely used dataset on species and ecosystems for the U.S. and Canada. management techniques, and best practices for operating projects across sectors. The course also includes field trips to experimental sites at Alvarado Lagoon Participants get hands-on System in Veracruz, Mexico, where the attendees learn foundational practices in experience in the field at the mangrove ecological restoration and forestry. Awards of completion are given by Maryland side of Great Falls Park the Institute of Ecology A.C.

Photos from the Mangrove Ecological Restoration and Forest Management Course in Veracruz, Mexico

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MacArthur $50,000+ Munson Foundation Howell Albert and Erin Chen Lynn Kutner Lauren Sawyer Foundation Defenders of Wildlife Kimberly Nelson and Keller Benefit Services Michael Clausell Ery Largay Lynn Scarlett Grants, Contracts, and Program Fees 81.0% $6,695,498 U.S. Bureau of Land Ecological Society of Kevin Cadden Edward Kfoury Douglas and Katheryn Jeanette Largue Konrad Schmidt Charitable Contributions 16.8% $1,384,562 Management America Parks Canada Bert and Mary Klein Cochrane Richard LeBlond Keith Schulz Registration and Other 2.2% $183,242 U.S. National Park JRS Biodiversity Pfizer Thomas Krakauer Joel Cohen Betty Lemon Richard Schneider Total Operating Revenue 100.0% $8,263,302 Service Foundation Pikes Peak Christopher Ludwig Nicholas Conrad Robert and Dee David Schindler Massachusetts Area Council of Macy’s Carmen Converse Leggett Franklin Schwing $500,000+ Institute of Governments Mary Kay, Inc. 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Burrowing Owl (Athene cunicularia) NatureServe status G4 Apparently Secure Photo By Bart Van Dorp

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