Wildlands
Conservation’s staff was involved in the
early 1990’s with one of the pioneer vocations of Conservation
Biology – Cooperative Ecosystem Management. Wildlands
Conservation staff partnered with the University of
Michigan, The Nature Conservancy, and the Wilderness Society
in developing a comprehensive publication, Ecosystem Management
in the United States. This document summarized
cooperative ecosystem management initiatives throughout the
United States.
Wildlands Conservation
staff has provided all of the wetland and wildlife reviews
for the Central Florida Regional Planning Council for the
past 15 years. They have been leaders
in intergovernmental/private partnerships since the early
1990’s and are some of the original leaders of the
Florida Department of Environmental Protection’s Team
Permitting Process.
Wildlands Conservation’s Executive Director was the
chair and vice-chair of the Hillsborough River Greenways
Task Force, an organization recognized by the Florida Department
of Environmental Protection as one of the seven initial Ecosystem
Management initiatives in Florida. Through this process,
the first team permitting project was successfully completed.
Wildlands Conservation
staff and associates, in a partnership with the Florida
Fish and Wildlife Commission and the University of South
Florida Biology Department, initiated the Frog Listening
Network. This is a grassroots program that trains local
environmental advocates to monitor frog populations. Frogs
are universally recognized as an early gauge of the health
of ecological communities (= the “canary in the coal
mine”).
Wildlands Conservation staff authored the Upland Habitat
Protection Ordinance for Hillsborough County, which won the
Future of the Region Meritorious Award from the Tampa Bay
Regional Planning Council.
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