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22 May 2018, 5:19 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
Users can even create a Conservation Benefits and Ecosystem Service Assessment Report Card, which analyzes and rates individual parcels on a number of factors, including coastal resiliency, connectivity, habitat and more. [read post]
4 Nov 2013, 1:31 pm by David Miller
The purpose of the LUPA is to identify and incorporate appropriate conservation measures in relevant Land Use Plans to conserve, enhance, and restore greater sage-grouse habitat by reducing, eliminating, or minimizing threats to their habitat, including threats such as wildfire, invasive species, conifer invasion, infrastructure, climate change, grazing, hard rock mining, oil and gas development, and human uses. [read post]
14 Apr 2009, 6:35 pm
KEITHINKING: The announcement includes a lengthy section with public comments and responses, but in the end, a substantial reduction in critical habitat results -- over a 50% reduction -- largely due to the exclusion of tribal lands, and lands with HCPs or other approved management plans. [read post]
18 Apr 2024, 4:26 pm by Jim Salzman
The key point is that BLM has incorporated 21st Century values into our public lands laws. [read post]
5 Nov 2010, 10:57 am
The Guidelines address the new requirements of the REA regulation, incorporate new North American science and information and provide guidance on identifying and addressing potential negative effects on birds and bird habitats during the planning, construction and operation of wind power projects by: focusing pre-construction monitoring on identification and evaluation of bird habitats to consider potential impacts of wind power development on birds and bird… [read post]
14 Aug 2008, 12:10 am
We recently released the final Recovery Plan for the Northern Spotted Owl (USFWS 2008), which incorporates the best available scientific information regarding the conservation of the northern spotted owl. [read post]
4 Sep 2016, 9:30 pm by Alexandra Hamilton
One example of success Jewell held up was the sage grouse, a bird common to the western United States that faced critical habitat threats due to land development. [read post]
15 Oct 2009, 7:00 pm
Arroyo toads (pictured above from Canyon Land Conservation Fund) have been extirpated from approximately 75 percent of the habitat they originally occupied. [read post]
11 Jul 2013, 1:30 pm
It appears that in Save Panoche Valley, the court applied the view that agricultural conservation easements are similar to conservation easements, which can mitigate biological impacts to below a level of significance without accounting for every square foot of impacted habitat. [read post]
22 Jun 2010, 9:20 am
" Thus, the FWS faces a "more onerous procedure" to designate unoccupied areas as critical habitat—it must first determine that such areas are essential for the conservation of the species. [read post]
12 Jan 2010, 5:15 pm by Keith Rizzardi
 FWS statements also acknowledge that the current critical habitat designation does not adequately identify the specific features of critical habitat: "The current critical habitat designation for the Florida manatee was described before critical habitat regulations and guidance were developed; it does not identify specific physical and biological features essential to the conservation of the manatee for this species’ habitat. [read post]
1 Jul 2020, 11:21 am by kblocher@hslf.org
A national wildlife corridors systems such as the one proposed in the package would connect fragmented habitats with bridges or tunnels on federal lands—including national parks, national wildlife refuges, national forests and other conservation areas—and participating state, tribal and private lands, and would protect natural pathways to allow wildlife to move between isolated patches of habitat. [read post]
21 Mar 2024, 9:24 am by Arthur F. Coon
  It noted that the Natural Resources Agency’s relevant 2018 amendment was expressly intended to incorporate the First District’s holding in Masonite “that off-site agricultural conservation easements constitute a potential means to mitigate for direct, in addition to cumulative and indirect, impacts to farmland. [read post]
11 Jul 2013, 5:30 pm by Jeffrey Forrest
It appears that in Save Panoche Valley, the court applied the view that agricultural conservation easements are similar to conservation easements, which can mitigate biological impacts to below a level of significance without accounting for every square foot of impacted habitat. [read post]
11 Aug 2021, 8:59 am by kblocher@hslf.org
This would improve wildlife habitat connectivity even further through a national system of protected habitat and migration corridors on participating federal, state, tribal and non-public lands. [read post]