Partnerships -- Tools

Tools for Landscape Level Ecosystem Planning -- Papers or other information about the need for a more holistic approach to management of fish and wildlife resources.

• Endangered Ecosystems of the United States
• The Nature Conservancy’s “Conservation by Design” Principles
• U. S. Forest Service’s Southern Forest Inventory and Analysis
• Progress on the Back Forty - Focus is on endangered species on private lands
• Banking on Nature - Economic benefits to local communities of NWR visitation
• America’s Living Oceans - Pew Oceans Commission Summary Report, May, 2003
• U. S. Commission on Ocean Policy Summary Recommendations (Preliminary Report)
• A Classification System for Marine Protected Areas (Draft Report)
• Department of Army, Corps of Engineers Water Resource Policies and Authorities - Ecosystem Restoration - Corps’ policy in ecosystem restoration and protection through the Civil Works program
• Conservation Strategies to Achieve Landscape Level Conservation in the Arid West - overview of “learning networks,” grazing management as a conservation tool, partnership development, exotic species management
• The Private Lands Opportunity - The Case for Conservation Initiatives
• Recovery Plan for Mobile River Aquatic Ecosystem