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Map of the area the Santa Clara Valley Habitat Conservation Plan will cover. The Santa Clara Valley Habitat Conservation Plan (SCVHCP), also known as the Santa Clara Valley Habitat Plan, is an initiative issued in 2012 by the County of Santa Clara, the City of San José, the City of Morgan Hill, the City of Gilroy, the Santa Clara Valley Water District (SCVWD), and the Santa Clara Valley ...
A Habitat Conservation Plan (HCP) is a required part of an application for an Incidental Take Permit, a permit issued under the United States Endangered Species Act (ESA) to private entities undertaking projects that might result in the destruction of an endangered or threatened species. It is a planning document that ensures that the ...
Headwaters Forest Reserve. The reserve was established in 1999 (H.R. 2107, Title V. Sec.501. [2]) The reserve was created after a 15-year effort to save the ancient ecosystem (with some trees estimated at over two thousand years old), from being clearcut.
The issue centers on the plan scaling back logging to an estimated 185 million board feet of timber on western Oregon state forests. Over the last decade, the same forests have produced about 225 ...
Gap analysis is a tool used in wildlife conservation to identify gaps in conservation lands (e.g., protected areas and nature reserves) or other wildlands where significant plant and animal species and their habitat or important ecological features occur. [1]
Habitat restoration is a subset of habitat conservation and its goals include improving the habitat and resources ranging from one species to several species [35] The Society for Ecological Restoration's International Science and Policy Working Group define restoration as "the process of assisting the recovery of an ecosystem that has been ...
Buffalo Wallow Prairie Conservation Area: Facilities/features: about 400 acres (1.6 km 2) of native prairie, including prairie chicken habitat. The area also has forest, old fields, cropland, and 2 fishable ponds. 1,144 acres 463 ha: Barton
Wildlife is ignorant of lines drawn on maps by humans. On balance, site-based conservation is an essential part of nature conservation, along with initiatives such as environmental subsidies and planning controls that protect biodiversity across the whole landscape (the broad and shallow approach), and the more holistic ideas of landscape-scale ...