8011

• UCREFRP Catalog Number: 8011
• Author: Hood, L. C., et al.
• Title: Frayed Safety Nets, Conservation Planning Under the Endangered Species Act 1998.
• USFW Year: 1998.
• USFW - Doc Type: Washington D.C.
• Copyright Material: YES

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Desert Tortoise Conservation Center, which had
no additional space for tortoises. Others had
been adopted as pets, highly questionable for a
threatened species.
Despite the utter failure of the short-term
HCP, the long-term Clark County HCP relies
on transferring tortoises to the Desert Tortoise
Conservation Center. Under the HCp, a sub-
committee of representatives of BLM, the
Nevada Department of Wildlife, National Park
Service biological resources division and FWS

was established to determine an appropriate
translocation site. While emphasizing scientific
input into this aspect of the HCP is a step in the
right direction, it would have been more appro-
priate to postpone approval of a large-scale, 30-
year HCP until there was some confidence in the
effectiveness of translocation techniques.
As a third example, the translocation of red-
cockaded woodpeckers is a central management
technique for many HCPs approved to date
(including all three HCPs analyzed in this