A System for Conservation Planning: Progress in Summit and Larimer Counties
Summary
One of the overarching goals of the Colorado Division of Wildlife Long Range Plan is to "Lead statewide efforts involving federal, state, county and local governments, private landowners and other organizations to define and identify high-priority habitats in the state." A System for Conservation Planning (hereafter, SCoP, pronounced "scope") is an experimental project that is helping set priorities for habitat protection. SCoP was motivated by the realization that rapid growth of the human population will be the most important source of change in wildlife habitat in Colorado during the coming decade and beyond. In the face of such change, Colorado counties and municipalities need ways to identify particularly significant wildlife habitats. They also need tools to protect those habitats. ‘ The mission of the SCoP project is to help local communities set biologically sound priorities for habitat conservation and to inform those communities of the economic and regulatory mechanisms available to achieve habitat conservation. To accomplish this mission, the goal of the SCoP project is to. obtain, assemble, and distribute state of the art information on effects of land use on wildlife diversity, particularly land use associated with rapid _ population growth. SCoP is working toward this goal in three parallel efforts: * Development of a collaborative process to help decision makers, planners, and citizens work together to set conservation priorities. * Production.of accessible information systems that. will help citizens and decision makers foresee large scale, cumulative effects of changes in land use on wildlife
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