8.2 Required 10-Year Comprehensive Review and Revision
the NCWAP web page for individuals with knowledge about any species evaluated by the Taxa Teams to volunteer as peer reviewers. Data sets and reviewer instructions were pro- vided to any person who responded with interest in the peer review. Teams of taxonomic and species experts from numerous federal and state agencies and partner organizations were convened in 2013 to form Taxa Teams. Te Teams were asked to use the new evaluation and ranking process to identify SGCN and other priority species. Training workshops were held for Team members to become familiar with the new evalua- tion process and learn how to use the internet based database portal. Each Taxa Team held numerous onsite and virtual meetings in 2013 and 2014 that focused on evaluating species and developing the SGCN and priority species list. Potential peer reviewers were identi- fed and invited to review evaluation results; peer review comments were reviewed by the appropriate Taxa Team and incorporated as determined by the Team. Te fnal evaluation results have been incorporated into Chapter 3 Species and are available in Appendix G. Online document sharing was used by the Revision Technical Team, other NCWRC biolo- gists, and numerous federal, state, and stakeholder partners to consider the threat catego- ries defned in Salafsky et al. (2008) . Information developed about anticipated impacts from these threats in North Carolina has been incorporated into Chapter 5 Treats. Updated or new information provided by partners about their conservation priorities and programs and monitoring eforts was collected between 2013 and 2014 and has been incorporated into Chapter 6 Conservation Priorities and Chapter 7 Monitoring Eforts. 8.2.5 Public Review and Comment (2014–2015) Public-review and peer-review comment opportunities were provided in 2014 and 2015. Peer review and technical assistance was sought from species and technical experts on the pro- posed taxa evaluation process developed by the Ranking Criteria Work Group. Appendix F provides more information about the review and comment opportunity and participants who provided feedback. Another opportunity involved peer review of the Taxa Teams’ evalu- ation results. Numerous species experts from federal and state agencies, universities, muse- ums, and stakeholder groups (e.g., corporations, conservation organizations) were invited to review, comment, or provide research data. Comments and research data were reviewed by the Taxa Teams and incorporated into the evaluation results as appropriate. Te evaluation results were available to the public on the NCWRC website during the peer-review process. Te draft revised WAP was made available for public review in electronic format and com- ments were received from July 20 to August 18, 2015. Te public review was intended to ofer private citizens and those individuals from organizations not otherwise involved in the revision process an opportunity to review and provide comments and to ofer new informa- tion for consideration. An announcement requesting the public’s assistance was distributed
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