The Landscape Conservation Cooperative (LCC) Council recently met in Austin, Texas on April 25-26, 2016. At the meeting, LCC Council members elected Kelley Myers, Conservation and Recreation Division Administrator with the Iowa Department of Natural Resources, as its Council Co-Chair.  She will serve with fellow co-chair, P. Lynn Scarlett, Managing Director of Public Policy with The Nature Conservancy. 

New York State's Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) has announced plans to manage at least 10 percent of forested stands on 90 of the agency's 125 Wildlife Management Areas (WMAs) as young forest. Over the next ten years, DEC will use timber harvests and other management techniques to create young forest on approximately 12,000 of the 120,000 wooded acres on WMAs statewide; those acres do not include areas of shrubland, which will be managed separately. DEC plans to maintain 10 percent of all WMA woodlands as young forest in perpetuity.

Over 800,000 acres were enrolled in the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) during the most recent general sign-up period. This was the 49^th general enrollment opportunity for the Program and one of the most selective in the 30-year history of CRP, according to the Wildlife Management Institute.

In collaboration with the California Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, geneticist Andrew Kinziger and graduate students at Humboldt State University set out to determine whether environmental DNA (eDNA) methods provide improved sensitivity to detect rare and endangered species in comparison with traditional monitoring techniques. Their