Transcript Solutions on the Horizon: Integrated Planning in the 21st Century Trisha White Defenders of Wildlife.

Solutions on the Horizon:
Integrated Planning in the 21st Century
Trisha White
Defenders of Wildlife
Section 6001
Transportation Planning
“The long-range transportation
plan shall be developed in
consultation with State, tribal,
and local agencies responsible
for land use management,
natural resources,
environmental protection,
conservation and historic
preservation.”
Section 6001
Transportation Planning
“Consultation under clause (i) shall
involve comparison of
transportation plans to State and
tribal conservation plans or maps,
if available, and comparison of
transportation plans to inventories
of natural or historic resources, if
available.”
Section 6001
Transportation Planning
“A long-range transportation
plan shall include a discussion
of potential environmental
mitigation activities and
potential areas to carry out
these activities, including
activities that may have the
greatest potential to restore and
maintain the environmental
functions affected by the plan.”
Section 6001
Transportation Planning
1. Consultation with resource
agencies
2. Comparison with
conservation plans, maps
3. Discussion of mitigation
activities, areas
WHAT ?
Do you mean we’re not
requireddoing
already
to dothat?
that?
Game
Management
Endangered
Species
Land / Habitat
UGH!
Resource Agencies:
• Lack of resources
• Different constituencies
Transportation Agencies:
• Sophisticated planning
process
• Lack of direction from
resource agencies
State Wildlife
Grants Program
• Established 2001, Conservation and Reinvestment Act (CARA)
• Administered by USFWS, to state fish and wildlife agencies
• Federal funds to state agencies in support of cost-effective
conservation, keep wildlife species from becoming endangered
• SWG projects include restoring degraded habitat,
reintroducing native species, developing partnerships with
private landowners, monitoring declining species
State Wildlife
Grants Program
• Funds allocated according to formula based
on state size and population
• Fluctuating funding ($65 – 85 million/year)
• Non-federal match (50/50)
• Required to complete State Wildlife Action
Plan by October 1, 2005
State Wildlife Action Plans
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Developed by state fish and wildlife agencies
Approved by USFWS
Non-federal match (75/25)
Prioritize conservation efforts throughout state
Reviewed at least every decade
Strategic vision for conserving the state’s
wildlife, not just a plan for the agency
State Wildlife Action Plans
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Wildlife Status
Habitat Status
Threats Analysis & Research
Prioritized Conservation Actions
Monitoring of Status and Actions
Plan Review & Update
Coordination with Agencies
Public Participation
What’s in a name?
• Comprehensive
Wildlife
Conservation Plans
(CWCP)
• Comprehensive
Wildlife
Conservation
Strategies (CWCS)
• State Wildlife Action
Plans (SWAP)
SAME
THING
A Plan for ALL the wildlife in a state?
Are you crazy?
Is this possible?
Has anyone ever done this?
Florida Strategic Habitat
Conservation Areas
Strategic habitat
Public land (April 2001)
Source: Cox, J. R. Kautz, M. MacLaughlin, and T. Gilbert. 1994.
Closing the gaps in Florida’s wildlife habitat conservation system.
Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Tallahassee.
Oregon Biodiversity Project
Massachusetts Statewide Plan
Statewide Biodiversity Planning
Status as of 2002 (Pre-SWG)
Completed
In Progress
Potential
None
Statewide Plans, October 2005
Completed
Wi sc o n si n ’s S tra teg y for
Wildlife Species of
Greatest Conservation Need
http://dnr.wi.gov/org/land/er/cwcp
Minnesota's Comprehensive Wildlife
Conservation Strategy
Section 6001
Transportation Planning
1. Consultation with resource
agencies
2. Comparison with
conservation plans, maps
3. Discussion of mitigation
activities, areas
Section 6001
State Wildlife Action Plan:
Transportation Planning
Implementation
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= Proactive conservation
Transportation planning
= Effective planning tool
Land use planning
=
Streamlining
Open space funding
of tax dollars
Federal=&Better
Stateuse
incentive
programs
Making TRACS
A Project to Integrate
Transportation and
Conservation Strategically
A multi-year effort to support,
enable and equip states’ efforts to
implement their Action Plans
• Information gathering
• Workshops
• Guidance
• Support
• Resources
Stay tuned…
Partners
www.biodiversitypartners.org
www.teaming.com
www.habitatandhighways.org