Strategic Habitat Conservation Handbook: A Guide to Implementing the Technical Elements of Strategic Habitat Conservation (Version 1.0)

摘要

This guide describes the framework for strategic habitat conservation (SHC) enabling the efficient conservation of wildlife populations through habitat management, which is defined as protection of existing habitat, and habitat restoration or manipulation. It supplements the description of the SHC framework in the final report of the National Ecological Assessment Team (NEAT), accepted by the Service Directorate and USGS Executive Leadership Team in 2006. This guide provides details on applying the technical elements of SHC; biological planning, conservation design, outcome-based monitoring and assumption-driven research. There are two primary audiences: (1) technical staff who will be performing these elements and need to understand how they should be developed and implemented; and (2) Senior Staff, Program Managers and Project Leaders who need to be able to distinguish conservation planning tools based on the SHC framework from those founded on a different approach.