6.3 Conservation Opportunities and Incentives
• Ensure that Best Management Practices (BMPs) are robust enough to protect aquatic habitats and water quality.
• Encourage adoption of BMPs by landowners by demonstrating benefts and linking use with eligibility to other landowner assistance programs.
• Implement NCWRC (2002, 2012) recommendations to minimize cumulative and sec- ondary impacts during initial site design and environmental review process.
• Develop local government ordinances to streamline the environmental review process through reduction of development impacts.
• Support the EPA’s Low Impact Development approaches (US EPA 2002).
• Encourage higher density development within existing urban boundaries and around existing infrastructure; discouraged development on urban fringes and in high diver- sity or ecologically sensitive areas. • Work with home builders and developers to adopt voluntary conservation guidelines; promote the principles of “conservation design” outlined in the Green Growth Toolbox and Wildlife Friendly Development Certifcation programs.
Rules and Regulations
• Coordinate with partners to develop policies and programs that address the presence and movement of nonnative and exotic invasive species.
• Work with local municipalities (commissions, planning boards, and other govern- ment entities) to promote ordinances that protect natural resources and improve water quality. • Continue coordination with regulatory agencies that enforce wetlands regulations, Migratory Bird Treaty Act, and the Endangered Species Act. • Support and encourage public comment to local ofcials or commissioners to voice their opinions on natural resources issues. 6.3.5 Partnerships and Cooperative Efforts Partnerships and cooperative eforts among natural resource agencies, organizations, aca- demia, private industry, and landowners that focus on common goals and objectives are key to reducing redundant eforts. Tese partnerships provide the basis for programs and
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