Chapter 7: Clark County Habitat Conservation Planning Process

The Coachella Valley Multiple Species Habitat Conservation Plan: a decade of delays.

This article describes the history of the Coachella Valley Multiple Species Habitat Conservation Plan (CVMSHCP), in the Riverside County region of Southern California. When this collaborative biodiversity conservation planning process began, in 1994, local participants and supporters had numerous factors working in their favor. Yet, as of April 2007, nearly 13 years had passed without an approv...

An evaluation of agency conservation guidelines to better address planning efforts by local government

In North America and Europe, land-use decisions that affect wildlife habitat often are made at the local government level. atural resource conservation agencies have little regulatory authority to influence these decisions, but frequently are asked o provide scientific support because local jurisdictions do not have staff with the necessary background in wildlife ecology. ome of this scientific...

BALANCING THE CONSERVATION OF WILDLIFE HABITAT WITH ROAD ACCESS FOR SUBSISTENCE HUNTING IN YAKUTAT, ALASKA By

This thesis was an interdisciplinary investigation with the goal of balancing the conservation of wildlife habitat with road access for subsistence hunting in Yakutat, Alaska. The problem posed by land managers and subsistence moose hunters revolved around the use of offhighway vehicles (OHVs; e.g. “four-wheelers”) for subsistence moose hunting and the potential disturbance OHVs have on moose. ...

Odonates at the Clark County Wetlands Nature Preserve: A look at habitat and relative abundance

Nearshore Marine Conservation Planning in the Pacific Northwest: Exploring the Utility of a Siting Algorithm for Representing Marine Biodiversity

Terrestrial conservation planning is well developed. In comparison, there are only a handful of published marine conservation plans and few of them are quantitative. The Nature Conservancy’s strategic planning approach, called “Conservation by Design,” employs an ecoregional planning methodology to construct conservation portfolios, or high-priority conservation areas. This chapter reports on t...