The Great Basin Landscape Conservation Cooperative (LCC) is a partnership among public and private groups working to meet large-scale conservation challenges across five states. We promote management based upon science and traditional knowledge that enables human and natural communities to respond and adapt to ongoing change. Our partners include a variety of groups committed to conservation, such as Native American tribes, universities, non-governmental organizations, and federal, state and local government agencies.
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The Great Basin LCC is one of 22 LCCs in North America. With the signing of Secretarial Order No. 3289, the Department of the Interior launched the LCCs to better integrate science and management to address climate change and other landscape scale issues.The Great Basin LCC geographic area encompasses approximately 145,000 square miles in five states. Explore the Great Basin LCC geography in the Conservation Planning Atlas.
The direction and priorities of the Great Basin LCC are established by a Steering Committee. This group consists of 23 representatives from federal agencies, tribes, state representatives, non-governmental organizations (NGO) and consortium partners from the five-state Great Basin region. The Steering Committee is led by a three-member Executive Committee.
Great Basin LCC Steering Committee Members
Great Basin LCC Staff
Karen Prentice, Acting Coordinator
Karen came to the Great Basin LCC in March 2018 as the Acting Coordinator. She has extensive experience collaborative, science informed decisions and management in and outside of the Great Basin. Karen started her career with BLM in Nevada’s Ely District where she started as a rangeland management specialist and devoted most of her time to invasive species and post-fire (ESR) treatments. Since, 2011, Karen has been in Washington, DC providing leadership for several aspects of the BLM’s landscape approach including coordinating landscape resiliency activities with internal and external partners and stakeholders, developing national policy on landscape restoration, and supporting development of the BLM’s Rapid Ecoregional Assessments. Recently Karen helped coordinate the development of the Science Framework for Conservation and Restoration in the Sagebrush Biome.
Dr. John Tull, Science Coordinator
John joined as Science Coordinator in January 2017. John comes from the Nevada Department of Wildlife where he served as a Wildlife Staff Biologist in the Habitat Division since January 2014. In that role, John worked in numerous collaborations including sage-grouse land use planning and results-based grazing in order to achieve positive, conservation-oriented outcomes in the Great Basin. Prior to that, John sought conservation solutions through the nexus of science and policy while at the Nevada Wilderness Project and as an independent consulting conservation biologist.
Dr. Matthew Germino, Research Landscape Ecologist
Matthew joined the Great Basin LCC in 2011, and assists with science research and coordination. Matthew works at the U.S. Geological Survey in the Forest and Rangeland Ecosystem Science Center in Boise, Idaho to research spatial and temporal patterns of change across the Great Basin landscapes, and the biological and physical processes that generate these patterns.
Eric Jensen, Geospatial Data Specialist
Eric joined the Great Basin LCC as Geospatial Data Specialist in November 2016. Owing to two years in the BLM's Assessment, Inventory and Monitoring (AIM) program, and coursework and professional applications of GIS and spatial analysis, Eric brings diverse aptitudes in data management, spatial analysis, cartography and Great Basin ecological processes.