Preliminary Conservation Objectives. The preliminary conservation objectives intended to be achieved through the Plans are to: • Provide for the protection of species, natural communities, and ecosystems on a landscape level; • Preserve the diversity of plant and animal communities throughout the Planning Areas; • Protect threatened, endangered, or other special status plant and animal species, and minimize and mitigate the take or loss of proposed Covered Species; • Identify and designate biologically sensitive habitat areas; • Preserve habitat and contribute to the recovery of Covered Species; • Reduce the need to list additional species; • Set forth species-specific goals and objectives; and • Set forth specific habitat-based goals and objectives expressed in terms of amount, quality, and connectivity of habitat.
Preliminary Conservation Objectives. The preliminary conservation objectives of the plan are to: • Provide for the conservation of Covered Species, natural communities and ecosystems on a landscape level within the Planning Area; • Preserve the diversity of plant and animal communities throughout the Planning Area; • Minimize and mitigate the take or loss of Covered Species; • Identify and designate sensitive habitat areas and wildlife linkages both within the Planning Area and to adjacent habitat areas outside of the Planning Area; • Preserve and enhance conservation areas and habitat linkages within the Planning Area; • Ensure Covered Activities are appropriately designed to avoid, minimize and/or mitigate impacts to Covered Species, natural communities, and designated conservation areas and habitat linkages; • Reduce the necessity to list additional species pursuant to FESA and/or CESA; • Establish specific species and habitat-based goals and objectives for Covered Species and for the amount, quality, and connectivity of habitat; • Estimate the extent of impacts to species from incidental take caused by Covered Activities; • Provide an adaptive management and monitoring strategy for Covered Species and natural communities within the Planning Area in order to assess and respond to changing ecological conditions or implementation approaches.
