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Natural Gas Drilling and Habitat Fragmentation PDF

The natural gas industry and its allies have lately portrayed natural gas as a "clean bridge fuel" to a more benign energy future for America. They and their political allies have called for legislation providing incentives that promote the wider use of natural gas.

Analysis of Habitat Fragmentation from Oil and Gas Development and its Impact on Wildlife: A framework for Public Land Management Planning PDF

This brief is submitted as part of the NEPA process for this land management proposal. It is intended to:

Habitat Fragmentation from Roads: Travel Planning Methods to Safeguard BLM Lands

This report summarizes existing research on habitat fragmentation and provides recommendations to the BLM on how it can incorporate habitat fragmentation analysis into its travel management planning process.

Reconnecting the Landscape: A Transportation Management Opportunity in the Boise National Forest PDF

The Boise National Forest (BNF), which encompasses 2.6 million acres in Idaho, is home to over 300 species of vertebrates, including elk, wolves, and bears that need large areas of intact habitat to survive. The forest harbors a variety of plant and animal species listed as endangered, threatened, or sensitive under the federal Endangered Species Act. Its 7,600 miles of streams and 250 lakes and reservoirs provide a continuous supply of water to the Snake and Salmon River Basins. The BNF also contains 5,477 miles of inventoried roads.

Landscape Connectivity: An Essential Element of Land Management PDF

Landscape connectivity has become a vital component in conservation science and land management planning, especially as human activities continue to reduce the size of natural areas and isolate them from one another. Significant consequences of those activities include isolation of populations of native species and disruption of their natural movements, dispersal patterns, and gene flows. To sustain these vital processes, and thus help species survive, it is imperative to maintain landscape connections among isolated areas.