July 21, 2020
Pima County’s Multi-species Conservation Plan integrates floodplain management with species protection, a logical step given that many federally protected species require access to floodplains for some part of their life cycle. Two key provisions of the floodplain ordinance that provide species protection . . .
July 21, 2020
In anticipation of obtaining an incidental take permit, Pima County (Arizona) began acquiring mitigation land in 2004. The County’s permit and Multi-species Conservation Plan was not finalized until 2016. Concurrent with these mitigation efforts, the County also developed or strengthened species . . .
May 29, 2018
Pigs (Sus scrofa) are native to Eurasia and northern Africa. In the early 1700s Spanish and Russian settlers introduced domestic pigs to California as livestock and many became feral. In the 1920s a Monterey county landowner introduced the European wild boar, a wild subspecies of Sus scrofa into California, . . .
May 29, 2018
Forestry Habitat Conservation Plan for Bats on Pennsylvania State Game Lands, State Forests, and State Parks Issue: Coming to an agreement on decisions internally and with USFWS is the foundation of the HCP process. Early on in the HCP’s development, we identified who the decision makers were for . . .
May 29, 2018
Regional scale HCPs can take many years to prepare and run into various obstacles that cause delays. Ken Schreiber, then the project manager for preparing the Santa Clara Valley HCP in California, suggested that some of these delays could be avoided or minimized by starting slowly and determining a . . .