Group Project Summary and Results

State Wildlife Action Plans Analysis

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Project Summary 

The purpose of this group project was to contribute to a Distributed Graduate Seminar (see seminar project home page here) to assess the initial implementation of the recently developed State Wildlife Action Plans. Objectives of the group project included characterization of plan implementation in seven states and the
District of Columbia (see Figure 1) and a more in-depth assessment of wildlife movement corridors in the plans. Specifically, we asked:

1) To what degree do Wildlife Action Plans address wildlife movement corridors throughout the U.S.?
2) Have Wildlife Action Plans influenced conservation efforts addressing wildlife movement corridors?

Figure 1.  Assignments of State Wildlife Action Plan Analysis to campuses participating in the Distributed Graduate Seminar. The Bren Group Project was responsible for the analysis of states displayed in green. 

Results

We prepared short summaries about plan implementation for each of the green states in above figure (WA, OR, CA, WV, VA, MD, DE, and DC), which are included in our group project report. The analysis of the wildlife movement corridor questions above is also presented in the group project report.

View final report here.
View a four-page version (project brief) here.

View the final report of the distributed graduate seminar that synthesizes the results of the eight individual seminars, including the Bren Group Project, here.

To view a copy of our PowerPoint presentation given on April 2, 2008, click here.