Federal Agency Planning for Wildlife Corridors and Habitat Connectivity: A Compendium
A compendium of Federal management plans related to habitat connectivity, wildlife corridors, and regional policies.
A compendium of Federal management plans related to habitat connectivity, wildlife corridors, and regional policies.
This plan is the result of the unique holistic Blackfeet Nation planning process that includes all parts of tribal government, while respectfully considering traditional values and a collective community vision for the future. The resulting plan will lead the way for communities looking to integrate climate adaptation planning into human health and resource management.
This document provides a variety of potential provisions for state legislators. Each provision attempts to address and improve different facets of identifying and protecting state wildlife movement and habitat connectivity. The following pages provide rationales for enhancing existing or creating new provisions and, where available, include examples of model or sample legislative language. Although intended
This briefing summarizes policies that the Obama administration has completed to increase attention to conserving ecological connectivity in his first term in office. It includes policy initiatives, memoranda, orders, plans, strategies and other administrative avenues of promoting the conservation of both structural and functional connectivity. The focus of this summary is on administrative policy, it
This excerpt of bill, S. 2302, includes an entire section on Wildlife Crossing Safety for the first time ever. Highlighting section 1125 which creates a $250 million wildlife crossing pilot program and initiates other activities aimed at reducing wildlife-vehicle collisions and improving habitat connectivity.
This study is the first systematic, evidence-based assessment of whether connectivity conservation plans (CCPs) result in conservation outcomes and what attributes of plans favor successful implementation. By gathering CCPs from around the world, characterizing attributes by surveying and conducting interviews with plan authors, analyses suggest that implementation of a CCP was enhanced by several tools,
On July 30, 2019, the Senate Environment & Public Works Committee unanimously voted (21-0) to advance a bipartisan transportation reauthorization bill, S. 2302, America’s Transportation Infrastructure Act. This summary compiles excerpts of the wildlife-related provisions of that bill, including Section 1125, which for the first time ever creates a $250 million wildlife crossing pilot program aimed
This paper is the third volume in a set of policy reviews that summarize all U.S. federal and state policies issued in support of ecological connectivity 2007-2019. In this volume, for the first time, we also include select county policies on connectivity from recent years.
Final report on the first ever county-wide Wildlife Crossing Master Plan for Teton County.
The first integrated global-scale intergovernmental assessment of the status, trends, and future of the links between people and nature provides an unprecedented picture of the extent of mutual dependence, the breadth and depth of the ongoing and impending crisis, and the interconnectedness among sectors and regions.