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Desert Storm, Anza Borrego Desert State Park (Colorado Desert Region)/Copyright Photographer, John J. Blair, DDS tions. The overall goal of these workshops was to identify ways to protect and preserve habitat for California’s threatened species. The product of these efforts, California’s Wildlife Action Plan, represents the consolidation of these wildlife management ideas. “The California Wildlife Action Plan provides a statewide assessment of threats to our wildlife heritage. With growth and development identified as one of the greatest threats to wildlife diversity, we must move quickly to protect and restore habitat. This plan is a good starting point that Defenders of Wildlife and other conservation partners can use to focus our wildlife conservation efforts.” – Kim Delfino, California Program Director, Defenders of Wildlife Assn. of Fish & Wildlife Agencies David Chadwick Wildlife Diversity Associate 444 North Capitol St. NW, Suite 725 Washington, DC 20001 Tel: 202.624.7890 chadwick@fishwildlife.org www.teaming.com • www.fishwildlife.org State Contact Dale Steele, Project Manager, California Species Conservation and Recovery Program California Department of Fish and Game, Habitat Conservation Planning Branch dsteele@dfg.ca.gov http://www.dfg.ca.gov/habitats/wdp/ 50 California Wildlife Action Plan
Colorado Wildlife Action Plan What is a wildlife action plan Congress asked each state to develop a wildlife action plan, known technically as a comprehensive wildlife conservation strategy (CWCS). These proactive plans examine the health of wildlife and prescribe actions to conserve wildlife and vital habitat before they become more rare and more costly to protect. Colorado snapshot Geography: Colorado is a mountainous state with headwaters for five major interstate river basins. Landscape: With the Rocky Mountains’ Continental Divide bisecting the State, habitat types range from alpine tundra at 10,000 ft, to aspenfir-pine forestland at 8,000 ft. to shortgrass prairie at 4,000 ft. Superimposed on this landscape is a human history of westward expansion and settlement accelerated by explosive development from gold and silver mining and natural resource use. Opportunities afforded by our scenic natural resources for big game hunting, trout fishing and outdoor recreation fuel the very development that stress and threaten all our wildlife communities. Wildlife: Drawn by abundant herds of elk and deer, and trout fishing in mountain streams, Colorado’s residents and visitors discover native cutthroat trout, sage grouse viewing on breeding leks, crane festivals, and ribbons of riparianwetland areas with a startling diversity of wildlife viewing opportunities. Colorado’s planning approach To create an action plan, the Colorado Division of Wildlife developed an eightstep process for acquiring scientific and stakeholder input to identify species in greatest need of pro-active conservation measures, as well as to identify key habitat conservation issues. The eight federally-required elements, including species’ distribution and abundance status, location and relative condition of key habitats, threats and needed research or surveys, required conservation actions, monitoring strategies, periodic plan review, coordination with governmental partners, and public participation, served as the planning framework. The plan combines a review of priority species and 41 land cover types in order to focus expert opinion and data-based documentation on identification of the highest conservation priorities while also addressing species and habitat protection, restoration, enhancement, and information gaps. Given the large library of conservation plans already Big Horn Sheep/CO Division of Wildlife “Colorado has repeatedly proven its ability to secure species at risk, and avoid the need for species protection through federal listing. Colorado’s wildlife conservation community continues to demonstrate its commitment to the goals of conserving all the state’s wildlife species with tangible, on-theground actions. Our State’s wildlife action plan demonstrates that Colorado’s conservationists are poised to take these efforts even further.” -Governor Bill Owens, State of Colorado Colorado Wildlife Action Plan 51
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