Plan Overview

Initiative 1 - Sporting Conservation Council
- I. - Legislation Regarding Sporting Conservation Council
  - 1. - Pass legislation authorizing the Sporting Conservation Council
    
    1.1 - Provide a ten-year term for the Council.
    
    1.2 - Consider amending the Federal Advisory Committee Act to allow non-governmental, nonconsensus advice to federal land managers
    
    1.3 - Consider an exemption for information provided by landowners about species of concern under the Freedom of Information Act
    
    1.4 - Identify opportunities to promote cooperating agency status for state agencies
Initiative 2 - Increasing Public and Private Funding for Wildlife Conservation
Initiative 3 - Improving Wildlife Habitat Conservation
Initiative 4 - Expanding Access to Public and Private Lands
Initiative 5 - Educating, Recruiting, and Retaining Hunters
- I. - Promote Hunting Among Various Demographic Groups
- II. - Promote Hunting Through Public-Private Partnerships
Initiative 6 - Coordinating Federal, State, Tribal, and International Action
- I. - Assess Existing Lines of Coordination
  - 32. - Produce and act on a rigorous assessment of existing authorities related to hunting and game conservation
    
    32.1 - Convene an expert panel of natural resource management and legal professionals
    
    32.2 - Identify relevant authorities and craft a user-friendly compendium for use by relevant federal employees
    
    32.3 - Identify conflicting authorities and craft potential statutory and regulatory language to clarify and/or reconcile these conflicts
    
    32.4 - Develop a user-friendly compendium of relevant authorities that will be shared with federal employees and non-federal partners
    
    32.5 - Collect and update formal coordination agreements that should be established or updated
    
    32.6 - Produce a detailed proposal for a Public Land Law Review Commission
- II. - Enact Improvements
Initiative 7 - Understanding Climate Change and Wildlife Effects
- I. - Establish Lines of Communication
  - 36. - Establish an advisory relationship among federal land management agencies, state agencies and conservation organizations on climate change
    
    36.1 - Assess the potential of forests and wetlands on federal lands to sequester carbon biologically
    
    36.2 - Identify the programs and/or authorities necessary to create an insurance pool against carbon loss during sequestration contracts
    
    36.3 - Work with private sector partners to determine whether a market would exist for the proposed insurance pool
    
    36.4 - Develop mechanisms that would enable receipts from private sector insurance payments to be retained for improving or expanding wildlife species habitat
    
    36.5 - Direct revenue from future climate change initiatives such as “cap and trade” to wildlife, habitat, and conservation education
    
    36.6 - Incorporate carbon exchange rates in creating incentives for landowners to conserve habitats
- II. - Improve Data and Policy
  - 37. - Publish guidance to ensure federal agencies consider effects of climate change on wildlife, habitat and wildlife-dependent recreation
  - 38. - Refine CCSP data to describe climate effects on wildlife populations and habitats
    
    38.1 - Ensure that CCSP and other available data are made available for inclusion into the various agency management planning and decision-making processes
    
    38.2 - Develop models and forecasts that will relate climate-related changes to biological responses of at risk game species, populations, and habitats
    
    38.3 - Use expanded research partnerships with natural resource agencies to assist in the design, construction, and implementation of adaptation strategies
    
    38.4 - Analyze species requirements and habitat dependencies in relation to projections for climate change effects and impacts
    
    38.5 - Include state, university, and tribal partnerships in determining effects of climate change on at risk wildlife
    
    38.6 - Develop monitoring programs by federal biological research and management agencies for incorporating climate change effects on at risk game species, populations, and habitat
Initiative 8 - Conserving Wildlife and Developing Oil and Gas on Public Land

47. - Collaborate on development of pre-project conservation plans for sustaining wildlife in conjunction with landscape-scale assessments on energy development

Text from the Recreational Hunting and Wildlife Conservation Plan, 2008, Page 45

Federal agencies will base development decisions on statistically valid monitoring and adaptive management studies.

Assessment of Status: Partially Complete

The MOU and master leasing plans have catalyzed some collaboration, but these efforts are not based on "statistically valid monitoring and adaptive management studies." The WHHCC Letter to the Secretary of the Department of the Interior on Energy Development indicates their belief that there is progress on collaboration that has yet to be made.

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47. - Collaborate on development of pre-project conservation plans for sustaining wildlife in conjunction with landscape-scale assessments on energy development

Assessment of Status: Partially Complete

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47. - Collaborate on development of pre-project conservation plans for sustaining wildlife in conjunction with landscape-scale assessments on energy development

Assessment of Status: Partially Complete

Supporting documentation and findings