Wildlife Areas Habitat Conservation
Plan:
December, 2008 Project Status Update
This page represents a very brief summary of work that has been
completed as of December, 2008 in support of the Wildlife Areas
Habitat Conservation Plan. Detailed reports have been produced to
document the results of many of the items listed below and are available
a project documents.
Development of the Wildlife Areas Habitat Conservation Plan began
in 2006 and is projected to take six years to complete.
Stakeholder and tribal staff assessment.
WDFW interviewed stakeholders and tribal staff to identify public
involvement and outreach needs for development of the HCP in 2006.
Public outreach.
Strategies were developed to foster collaboration, including
tribal government coordination, stakeholder involvement, and public
outreach in 2006. The following actions have been to taken to
implement the strategy.
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· A series of six public outreach meeting were held
throughout the state in 2007. |
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Web pages, fact sheets, and other outreach materials were
created and distributed in 2007. |
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· DFW contacted tribes via letters and emails to
invite their participation in inventory efforts in 2008. |
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· Presentations were given to interested groups
including the Washington Association of Conservation Districts
and the Office of Farmland Preservation in 2008. |
Activities Inventory
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· A master list of maintenance, restoration and
recreation activities that occur on Wildlife Areas was completed
in 2007. In 2008, these activities were defined and described
so that their potential impacts to the environment and at-risk
species could be identified. |
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Inventory work has been completed identifying where and
when activities occur on nearly two thirds of Washington’s
Wildlife Areas that are suspected of having the potential
to impact at-risk species. |
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A database has been created to store activities inventory
data and data entry has begun |
Species Inventory.
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· A master list was created of all at-risk species
with the potential to occur on Washington’s Wildlife
Areas. |
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· Detailed descriptions of at-risk species and their
habitat needs called Species Profiles have been developed
for 14 species based on detailed literature reviews. Species
Profiles will eventually be developed for all species that
are included in the HCP. |
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· Inventory work has been completed identifying
where and when at-risk species are likely to occur on the
two thirds of the Washington’s Wildlife Areas. |
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· A database has been created to store species inventory
data and data entry has begun. |
Predictive effects modeling.
Model development is underway to enable rapid evaluation of the
potential impacts to at–risk species when their habitats
overlap with mapped activities.
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