7943

• UCREFRP Catalog Number: 7943
• Author: Getches, D. H.
• Title: As Wildlife Goes, So Goes The West, ‎(for the annual meeting of The Western Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies)‎.
• USFW Year: 1985.
• USFW - Doc Type: July 17, 1985.
• Copyright Material: NO

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: CN! I T BEll E \E THERE I S NOT A \'JAY TO M0DI FY, BUT NOT TH\^lART,
l)J:\fLOP~1E'n PLANS IN THE INTEREST OF WILDLIFE. Ar-m IN THE PROCESS
~'n La.. I FE CAN BECOME BETTER OFF. I N ANOTHER BUTTERFLY CASE DE \ELOPERS
WE~E ABLE TO OPEN THE TREASURED SAN BRUNO MouNT~IN NEAR SAN FRANCISCO
TO DE \.ELOD~1ENT . BuT BECAUSE IT WAS THE Hav1E OF AN ENDANGERED
BUTTERFLY, A HABITAT CONSER~TION PLAN WAS NEGOTIATED AMONG ALL
INTERESTED PARTIES THAT LED TO A tvlAJOR EFFORT TO RESTORE RUTTERFL Y
HABITAT, PROTECT OPEN SPACE AND NATURAL \EGETATION, AND REGULATE LAND
USE. ALL INTERJ:STED PARTIES AGREED TO THE PLAN AND ALL ARE BETTER
OFF. A HI\BITAT ~'\ANAGH1ENT FUND SUPPORTS THE BEST -POSSIBLE
TECHNOLOGiCAL APPROACHES TO HABITAT PRESER'A\TIOf\1 AND THE BUTTERFLY IS
MORE SECURE THA~\l E \fR .

r1ITIGATION OF FISH AND ~HLDLIFE EFFECTS OF PROJECTS IS

BECO"<1ING A SCIENCE. POLITICAL ACCEPTANCE OF THE OBLIGATION OF

DE \ELOPERS Tn INTERNALIZE THE "COSTS" THEY IMPOSE ON THE PUBLIC

SllCH AS DIMPHSHED vJILDLlFE HABITAT -- CALLS FOR POLITICALLY ASTUTE

RESOURCE M1\NAGEQS. AND POLITICAL STRENGTH t~EANS THAT MANAGERS NEED

NOT SETTLE FOR SPUR IOUS ENTR I ES I N A BENEF IT -COST ANAL YS I S THAT SHO\^J,

FOR INSTANCE, THAT FLAT WATER FISHING OPPORTUNITIES CRE/I.TED BY A NEW

RESER \() I R HA \E ADEQUA Tf:L Y REPLACED A STREAM FISHERY FOR NA TI \E FISH

THAT "'AJULD BE I NtJNDA TED. ,l'1.ND ~1ANAGERS NEED NOT BE TIM 10 I N ASK I NG

THAT FUNDS FOR OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE BE SET ASIDE ALONG WITH LAND,

OR WATERWAYS, OR WETLANDS THAT ARE ACQUIRED FOR MITIGATION.

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