New surrogate species initiative next step in USFWS Strategic Habitat Conservation
In 2006, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) leadership endorsed Strategic Habitat Conservation (SHC) as the conservation approach the agency would use to achieve its mission. SHC uses an adaptive management framework to focus on a subset of shared conservation targets, set measurable biological objectives for them, and identify the information, decisions, delivery, and … Read more