Science and Uncertainty in Habitat Conservation Planning
By Laura Watchman, Martha Groom, John Perrine
A review of 43 habitat conservation plans reveals numerous ways to reduce uncertainty for landowners and imperiled species alike
This Article From Issue
July-August 2001
Volume 89, Number 4
Page 351
DOI: 10.1511/2001.28.351
A town meeting in eastern Texas virtually erupts at the mention of a small songbird. The marbled halls of the U.S. Congress echo with angry debate over federal regulation of private property. Two thousand miles away in a rapidly growing area of Tucson, Arizona, a biologist's heart races when she hears an endangered cactus ferruginous pygmy owl reply to calls from her tape recorder.
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