8.2 Required 10-Year Comprehensive Review and Revision
8.2.3 Incorporating Best Practice Recommendations (2012) In 2012, the WAP Revision Technical Team adopted several recommendations from AFWA’s Best Practice Guide (AFWA 2012) , which were endorsed by the Revision Steering Committee and implemented during the revision process. Many of the recommendations in the Guide are already integral components of North Carolina’s State Wildlife Grant program and are part of NCWRC’s daily implementation of the 2005 WAP priorities and recommendations. Briefy, new recommendations that have been incorporated into this plan include • developing evaluation procedures to characterize risk of extinction and extirpation of species based on a suite of variables such as population size, trend, geographic range, and threats (including climate change) and using this information to determine Species of Greatest Conservation Need (SGCN); • prioritizing conservation, research, and management concerns and needs using a structured ranking system that considers taxonomic status, endemism, geographical range, threat status, and other factors that measured risk of extinction; • evaluating the anticipated impacts of threats based on the hierarchical classifcation system described by Salafsky et al. (2008) ; • incorporating climate vulnerability assessments of efects and adaptation measures, developed by the NC Natural Heritage Program (NCNHP) and presented during the September 2010 Climate Change Workshop, into natural community descriptions in the revised WAP; • applying models to analyze existing and new Geographic Information System (GIS) data, using it to identify potential Conservation Opportunity Areas (COAs), and making associated datasets available to partners through an online map interface and data downloads; • working regionally to collaboratively apply North American Bat Monitoring Program (NABat) monitoring protocols in collection of occurrence data for multiple bat species and using a citizen science component for outreach and education; • systematically addressing the Eight Required Elements in sequential chapters and iden- tifying in the table of contents where to fnd the information; and • publishing the 2015 WAP in an electronic format that uses dynamic links to referenced materials, can be accessed through multiple electronic document formats, and can be distributed digitally through the WAP webpage.
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