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Appendix A: Greater Sage-Grouse: A Collaborative Conservation Effort
Pages 79-84

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... to integrate into staff support for a GIS and modeling expert who played a an existing landscape-scale issue; how the scale at which key role in the creation of a geospatial tool required to impleconservation action needs to take place can vary; and how ment the Fire and Invasive Species Team protocol described difficult it is to attribute credit to any single entity in such by Chambers et al.
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From page 80...
... In addition to collaborating with the FWS through The species is experiencing range-wide population declines federal initiatives, many of the 11 states where greater sagedue to agricultural development, large-scale range improve- grouse habitat occurs have identified important areas needing ments (sagebrush control) , urban and exurban development, special consideration in land-use decisions.
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From page 81...
... through the regulatory of habitat on a large scale due to invasive species following authority of state agencies and collaboration with industry, wildfires, agricultural conversion of sagebrush landscapes federal land management agencies, and local sage-grouse to grasslands, and poor grazing practices is exacerbated by working groups. The SGEO provides for coordination of displacement from otherwise suitable habitat and functional greater sage-grouse conservation efforts among all stake habitat loss due to energy and other infrastructure developholders statewide and an evaluation of projects within greater ments.
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From page 82...
... In contrast, a CCAA is a predictions for greater sage-grouse and focal species tied to voluntary agreement between the FWS and participating private property sage-steppe ecotypes (black- and white-tailed jackrabbits) ; owners with a permit issued by the agency containing assurances that if the private property owners engage in certain conservation actions for species integrated model testing results in an adaptive management included in the agreement, they will not be required to implement additional framework to inform conservation action within the area of conservation measures beyond those in the CCAA if the species is listed in the GNLCC, and communicated to shareholders.
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From page 83...
... . • An investigation of the construction and operational effects of wind energy development on greater sage-grouse Great Basin LCC through the study of survival, movements, habitat use, and lek dynamics, on a 1,000-turbine, 2,000- to 3,000-megawatt For 2013 and 2014, the Great Basin LCC identified wind facility in Carbon County, Wyoming, using a beforeshort-term science priorities to guide research (Hughson et after control-impact design.
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From page 84...
... Several projects were funded through the initiative, The region issued a call for proposals for funding including the following four projects: collaborative research and management support projects through WAFWA and Region 6 of the FWS, called the Inter- • Range-wide sampling design for population size and Landscape Conservation Cooperative (Inter-LCC) Greater trend estimation in greater sage-grouse; Sage-Grouse Initiative.6 Region 6 developed an agreement • Sage-grouse hate trees: A range-wide solution for with WAFWA to collaboratively deliver two specific prongs increasing bird benefits through accelerated conifer removal; of this initiative: • Designing regional fuel breaks to protect large rem nant tracts of sage-grouse habitat in Idaho, Oregon, Nevada, 1.
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Key Terms

  • conservation effort
  • sage grouse
  • grouse initiative
  • private landowners
  • voluntary conservation

  • lcc network
  • basin lcc
  • wind energy
  • energy development
  • sagebrush steppe

  • grouse conservation
  • conservation action
  • conservation actions
  • conservation cooperative
  • inform conservation

  • conservation agreements
  • habitat conservation
  • collaborative conservation
  • landscape conservation
  • conservation efforts

  • lcc provided
  • grouse habitat
  • lcc boundaries
  • endangered species
  • projects directly

  • indirectly related
  • habitat loss
  • sweetwater river
  • wildlife agencies
  • core habitat


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