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Enhanced Conservation Action Planning paper

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California

Publication date: December 31, 2010

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Published paper in Journal of Conservation Planning on "Enhanced conservation action planning: Assessing landscape condition and predicting benefits of conservation strategies"

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Subject Tags

  • Land management
  • Conservation Planning
  • Ecosystem management

Description

This paper describes enhanced conservation action planning (Enhanced CAP) to inform proposed management actions. The approach uses remote sensing, predictive ecological models, and cost benefit assessments to provide quantitative measurements of current and predicted future ecological conditions and evaluate the benefits and costs of alternative management strategies. The approach was used for a 76,464 ha project area in California's Bodie Hills and northern Mono Lake Basin, finding that 5 of the area's 15 ecological systems were highly departed from their reference conditions. A combination of ecologically-based and wildfire protection management was found to meet the conservation objectives for the least cost for 7 of the 8 systems selected for management attention.

 

Citation

Low G, Provencher L, Abele S. 2010. Enhanced conservation action planning: Assessing landscape condition and predicting benefits of conservation strategies. Journal of Conservation Planning 6:36-60.