Wildlife Habitat Planning and Best Management Practices Manual for Florida Communities and Landowners
Dan Pennington, 1000 Friends of Florida
1000 Friends of Florida and the Florida Wildlife Federation are working on a multi-year project to develop a document addressing sustaining Florida wildlife through community habitat planning, developmental design and best management practices. The document is directed at Florida communities and landowners. The end product will be a Florida-based document (Summer 2008) targeted to community planners, landscape architects, landowners, developers and active citizens similar to our American Planning Association award winning document, "Protecting Florida's Springs - Land Use Planning Strategies and Best Management Practices" published in 2002.
This Florida Stakeholders' Fish and Wildlife Forum presentation will report on the progress to date relative to drafting elements dealing with wildlife and transportation infrastructure, wildlife and golf courses planning and design and using Florida’s comprehensive planning process and other planning tools to better plan wildlife friendly communities. The project is intended to build upon the Florida’s Wildlife Legacy Initiative and Comprehensive Wildlife Conservation Strategy (CWCS) as developed by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. It focuses on a habitat approach, looking for ways to translate concerns and identified needs under the “Legacy’s” documents into appropriate actions that can be taken at the local level to keep common species common (as well as helping to avoid reduction or loss of the identified threatened or endangered species).
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