Natural Communities definition

Natural Communities means a natural assemblage of plants or animals that occurs within certain elevation, moisture, and habitat conditions.

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Natural Communities means communities of wildlife, flora, fauna, soil-dwelling, aerial and aquatic organisms, as well as humans.

Natural Communities means communities of wildlife, flora, fauna, soil-dwelling, aerial, and aquatic organisms, as well as humans and human communities that have established sustainable interdependencies within a proliferating and diverse matrix of organisms, within a natural ecosystem.

Examples of Natural Communities in a sentence

• Floristic surveys shall be of the quality proposed in the DFG "Guidelines for Assessing the Effects of Proposed Projects on Rare, Threatened, and Endangered Plants and Natural Communities" (May 2000) and the “CNPS Botanical Survey Guidelines” (December 1983, revised June 2001).

• Exhibit 5 – 2021-22 Weed Priority List is the list of target weed species vetted by OC Parks, California State Parks, The Nature Conservancy, Natural Communities Coalition, California Invasive Plant Council and other OC Parks partners.

• The County of San Diego was awarded two Natural Communities Conservation Planning (NCCP) Program Local Assistance Grants to accomplish the first phase of the monitoring program, i.e., collecting baseline data for covered plant species.

• The request also sought updates regarding special concern species listed in New York and Significant Natural Communities in the Project area.

• The goal of the Management Program is to implement management actions and prescriptions that ensure Conservation of the Covered Species and Natural Communities within the Plan Area.

• Prior to filing the EM&CP, the Certificate Holder shall contact the NYSDEC Region 1 Natural Resources Supervisor, NYS Natural Heritage Program and the United States Fish and Wildlife Service (“USFWS”) to check for any updates or changes of known threatened or endangered plant or animal species, or special concern species listed in New York, (collectively, “RTE” species) or habitat or Significant Natural Communities in the Project area.

• A rare plant survey was conducted on June 22, 2010 by AECOM biologists ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ and ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ according to the California Department of Fish and Wildlife’s (DFW) Protocols for Surveying and Evaluating Impacts to Special Status Native Plant Populations and Natural Communities (DFG, 2009).

• Conservation Goals and Objectives have been developed and shall be implemented for each of the Covered Natural Communities in the MSHCP and are set forth in Section 10 of the MSHCP.

• The Eastern portion of the reservoir is located within the Central Coastal Natural Communities Conservation Plan (NCCP) for which the City is signatory.

• Surveys shall be conducted in accordance with the Protocols for Surveying and Evaluating Impacts to Special Status Native Plant Populations and Natural Communities (CDFG 2009).

More Definitions of Natural Communities

Natural Communities means environments hosting humans and wildlife, flora, fauna, and soil-dwelling and aquatic organisms within a proliferating and diverse natural ecosystem.

Natural Communities means wildlife, flora, fauna, soil­dwelling and aquatic organisms, as well as human communities that have established sustainable interdependencies within a proliferating and diverse matrix of organisms, within an ecosystem.

Natural Communities means wildlife, flora, fauna, soil-dwelling and aquatic organisms, as well as humans and human communities that have established sustainable interdependencies within a proliferating and diverse matrix of organisms, within an ecosystem.

Natural Communities means communities of wildlife, flora, fauna, soil dwelling, aerial and aquatic organisms that have established sustainable interdependencies and interrelationships within a proliferating and diverse matrix of organisms within a natural ecosystem, and thus also have sustainable interdependencies and interrelationships with human communities. “Natural Community” means all such Natural Communities.

Natural Communities means communities of wildlife, flora, fauna, soil dwelling, aerial and aquatic organisms that have established sustainable inter-dependencies and inter-relationships within a proliferating and diverse matrix of organisms within a natural ecosystem, and thus also have sustainable inter-dependencies and inter-relationships with human communities. “Natural Community” means all such Natural Communities.