For State Wildlife Action Plans
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- Provide regional context
- Address regional conservation priorities
- Highlight what is important and defining about the Northeast region
- Organize existing information
- Facilitate consistency
- Assist with conservation adoption
Purpose and Need for This DocumentThis document is intended to inform State Wildlife Action Plan revisions as well as conservation planning at many scales in the Northeast. It is available for use by local, state, regional and national conservation entities. It represents a milestone in the long-term relationship between the Fish and Wildlife Diversity Technical Committee and its partners that continues to produce a strategic and focused series of tools, plans and alliances. Through the Regional Conservation Needs (RCN) grants program, more than 30 reports, resource documents, and tools are now available to help guide regional conservation. More recently, the LCCs have built upon the work of the RCN Grant Program to develop additional landscape conservation information and tools with almost 20 new projects guided by the Northeast regional conservation framework developed collaboratively with the states. These projects address the landscape-scale wildlife conservation needs of the Northeast, as prioritized by the states in coordination with partners. As states revise their Wildlife Action Plans for 2015 approval, there is a need to synthesize this regional information in a way that is most useful and applicable to their needs, as well as to partners in their planning processes. The intent of this document is to provide the regional context, synthesized information, and priorities to support states in their Wildlife Action Plan development and implementation. It is also to raise the awareness and use of these shared regional priorities. This document can be used in its entirety by states to address the regional context (as an appendix or by reference), or individual sections can be used to address each of the required elements for Wildlife Action Plans. The document is designed to: Provide regional context – This document has been designed to help provide a regional setting for many of the conservation priorities identified in Northeast states’ individual Wildlife Action Plans. Many conservation issues are broader than any one state or jurisdiction. For example, restoring the New England cottontail requires collaboration among many states to achieve a stable population. Likewise, coordinated conservation activities, such as river management, invasive species control, and habitat connectivity are often most effective when implemented across multiple state jurisdictions. This document will help each of the state fish and wildlife agencies identify opportunities for collaborative action to address needed actions across a regional landscape; take advantage of economies of scale; and ensure that vulnerable species are not overlooked. The document also provides basic background information about the region as a whole—its special habitats, species, and human impacts—that is essential for understanding the dynamics of fish and wildlife conservation as practiced in the Northeast states. Address regional conservation priorities – The information contained in this document will help state fish and wildlife agencies and their partners address the most pressing conservation issues affecting the fish and wildlife in the region collaboratively by states, LCCs, and partners identified in Regional Conservation Planning Workshops (see below). The thematic categories identified at workshops (Habitat Mapping, Biological Assessment and Goal-Setting, Conservation Design to Action, Monitoring and Research, and Information Management) correspond in broad outline to the Wildlife Action Plan conservation elements and the Northeast Planning Framework that have been used to structure this document. This document therefore serves as a compendium of information for states and their public and private partners to address the regional conservation needs identified at those Regional Conservation Planning Workshops. It also emphasizes the importance of coordinated delivery of conservation activities and provides economies of scale for regional planning. Highlight what is important and defining about the Northeast region – This document brings attention to the special ecological features of the Northeast states, including the region’s numerous endemic species and globally rare communities, its biodiversity hotspots (such as calcareous communities and salt marsh habitats), and its diversity of species associated with early successional habitats that are now of conservation concern. It also places information about threats, stressors, and conservation activities into a regional context, and provides further support for continued collaborative conservation across state lines. Organize existing information – One of the most valuable aspects of this document is its organization and presentation of existing regional information about species, habitats, threats and stressors, conservation actions, and monitoring and evaluation programs of regional interest or regional concern. Although a wealth of information about these topics is contained in most states’ Wildlife Action Plans, this document brings together and organizes this information at a regional scale, making it easier for groups of states to develop multi-jurisdictional conservation strategies and approaches. Facilitate consistency – This document summarizes and incorporates the Northeast regional lexicon with standard terminology for each of the eight required elements. It follows standard taxonomies for species recommended by the national Best Practices (AFWA 2012) and developed by the Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) and NatureServe. It also applies standard habitat classifications (Gawler 2008, Olivero and Anderson 2008), as well as standard taxonomies for threats, stressors, and conservation actions developed by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and the Conservation Measures Partnership and further described in Salafsky et al. (2008). By using these standard definitions and classifications, the ability of Northeast states to communicate and collaborate effectively across jurisdictional boundaries is greatly enhanced. Assist with conservation adoption – By clearly identifying a set of shared conservation priorities relevant to the entire Northeast region, this document seeks to make it easier for individual states and their partners to adopt and incorporate regional conservation priorities into future iterations of their Wildlife Action Plans and to develop partnerships both at the state level and regionally. Identifying shared regional conservation priorities may also make it easier to obtain buy-in and support for the Wildlife Action Plans from the private sector and public entities, including non-governmental organizations, municipal and federal agencies. These regional priorities will also provide states with the support they need to commit limited resources to conserve species and habitats that may not be the highest priority in their state, but which have a high importance to regional conservation. Directory: sites -> default -> files -> final reports files -> Northern England’s set-jetting locations files -> Nstructions for Acquiring Excess Equipment online, through the 1033 Program files -> Occupational health and safety files -> The Black Panther Party’s Ten Point Program files -> International programs roel profile files -> Fermi Questions a guide for Teachers, Students, and Event Supervisors Lloyd Abrams, Ph. D. 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