Habitat conservation plans in industrial forests of the Pacific Northwest: mitigation and public participation

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The non-federal forests in the Pacific Northwest have been subjected to continual logging and road building since the mid-1940s. Habitat conservation plans (HCPs), which were introduced to the area in the early 1990s, have grown to seven by 1994 in the industrial forests of Washington and Oregon. However, public involvement in Northwest HCPs remains low as all Northwest HCPs are single-landowner ones. The mitigation efforts involved in the conservation of northern spotted owls, marbled murrelets and anadromous fish in the area are also discussed.

Western United States

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Adaptive management and other management efforts: habitat conservation planning in the Pacific Northwest

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Nine habitat conservation plans (HCPs) for industrial landowners have been allowed in the Pacific Northwest since 1992. However, the necessity of establishing adaptive management for the application of new scientific data to forest management situations, as well as the way in which HCPs are related to other management strategies, is still in question. These management efforts include the Northwest Forest Plan, draft Spotted Owl Recovery Plan, and the Washington State Forest Practices rules for the spotted owl.

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Plum Creek's Cascades Habitat Conservation Plan: a corporate approach to ecosystem management

Article Abstract:

Habitat conservation planning at the Plum Creek timberlands in the state of Washington's central Cascades Mountains offers an example of how a corporate approach to ecosystem management works. Began in 1994, habitat conservation planning at Plum Creek reveals a shift to ecosystem-based planning from the one-species-at-a-time approach. The Plum Creek habitat planning program implies that, although they must share the same goal, private lands must also play a different role in species conservation.

Biotic communities, Cascade Range

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