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Abstract
Prioritizing Conservation Efforts in the Sierra Nevada Ecoregion
Track: Ecology, Archaeology, and Conservation
Author(s): Bo Wilmer, Chris Weller
The Wilderness Society, together with The Trust for Public Land, has embarked on an exciting proactive strategy for conservation. The goal is to optimally target conservation efforts within a proactive, comprehensive strategy. The approach includes three steps.
1. Identify "hotspots" of biodiversity and wilderness.
2. Associate costs of conservation.
3. Run the SITES model.
Based on the ecological/wilderness values targeted in Step 1 and the associated costs identified in Step 2, this optimization algorithm iterates through a grid of equal-area planning units to group individual units into a spatial pattern that best achieves wilderness protection for the least cost (spatially explicit annealing).
Bo Wilmer
The Wilderness Society
1424 4th Ave
Suite 816
Seattle, WA 98101-2217
USA
Phone: 206-624-6430
Fax: 206-624-7101
E-mail: bwilmer@twsnw.org