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The following
are suggested criteria properties should meet for consideration
for acquisition of fee, conservation easements or other rights for
conservation purposes. The criteria are intended to be
guidelines. Individual properties are not expected to meet all
criteria.
Location:
1. Within Southwest Alaska as defined
by the Partnership.
2. Located within or would likely
impact a state or federal conservation unit, area of special
designation, a documented sensitive habitat area, e.g. salmon
spawning area, caribou calving area, moose wintering area, or
within an area of high biodiversity identified in an Ecoregional
Plan or similar document.
3. Property is located so its
protection may preserve or protect a much larger area than the
parcel itself, i.e., the parcel is surrounded by already protected
land or the property provides a habitat connection or corridor
between parcels of protected land.
Threat:
Key habitats within the parcel, or the
entire parcel are vulnerable to or potentially threatened by
disturbance, habitat loss, fragmentation or degradation; or
development of the parcel threatens key habitats/sites on adjacent
public lands, or threatens a rare, endemic, irreplaceable type of
habitat.
Management
1. Identified
public, corporate or other organizational land manager willing to
accept perpetual conservation management responsibility.
2. High priority tract for resource
land manager or other organization.
Cost:
1. Seller
willing to accept appraised value.
2. Owner willing to contribute to
protection through bargain sale, easement donation or fee acreage
elsewhere, stewardship fund endowment, or paying transaction
costs.
3. The project is deemed
attractive to donors and is likely fundable.
4. Contributions available
from other sources.
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