Energy Developmand Wildlife Conservation in Western North America

Energy Development and Wildlife Conservation in Western North America offers a road map for securing our energy future while safeguarding our wildlife heritage. Contributors show how science can help craft solutions to conflicts between wildlife and energy development by delineating core areas, identifying landscapes that support viable populations, and forecasting future development scenarios to aid in conservation design.

The book calls for a shift away from site-level management that has failed to mitigate cumulative impacts on wildlife populations toward broad-scale planning and implementation of conservation in priority landscapes. It concludes by identifying ways that decision makers can remove roadblocks to conservation, and provides a blueprint for implementing conservation plans.

Autorentext

David E. Naugle is an Associate Professor and Applied Landscape Ecologist in the Wildlife Biology Program, University of Montana, Missoula.

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Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgments

PART I ENERGY DEVELOPMENT AND THE HUMAN FOOTPRINT

Chapter 1 Introduction to Energy Development in the West

David E. Naugle and Holly E. Copeland

Chapter 2 Geography of Energy Development in Western North America: Potential Impacts on Terrestrial Ecosystems

Holly E. Copeland, Amy Pocewicz, and Joseph M. Kiesecker

PART II BIOLOGICAL RESPONSE OF WILDLIFE AND INVASIVE PLANTS TO ENERGY DEVELOPMENT

Chapter 3 Unifying Framework for Understanding Impacts of Human Developments on Wildlife

Chris J. Johnson and Martin-Hugues St-Laurent

Chapter 4 Sage-Grouse and Cumulative Impacts of Energy Development

David E. Naugle, Kevin E. Doherty, Brett L.Walker, Holly E. Copeland, Matthew J. Holloran, and Jason D. Tack

Chapter 5 Effects of Energy Development on Ungulates

Mark Hebblewhite

Chapter 6 Effects of Energy Development on Songbirds

Erin M. Bayne and Brenda C. Dale

Chapter 7 Invasive Plants and Their Response to Energy Development

Paul H. Evangelista, Alycia W. Crall, and Erin Bergquist

Chapter 8 Wind Power and Biofuels: A Green Dilemma for Wildlife Conservation

Gregory D. Johnson and Scott E. Stephens

PART III CONSERVATION BY DESIGN: PLANNING AND IMPLEMENTING SOLUTIONS

Chapter 9 Energy by Design: Making Mitigation Work for Conservation and Development

Joseph M. Kiesecker, Holly E. Copeland, Bruce A. McKenney, Amy Pocewicz, and Kevin E. Doherty

Chapter 10 Forecasting Energy Development Scenarios to Aid in Conservation Design

Holly E. Copeland, Kevin E. Doherty, David E. Naugle, Amy Pocewicz, and Joseph M. Kiesecker

Chapter 11 Resource Policy, AdaptiveManagement, and Energy Development on Public Lands

Melinda Harm Benson

Chapter 12 Community-Based Landscape Conservation: A Roadmap for the Future

Gregory A. Neudecker, Alison L. Duvall, and James W. Stutzman

Literature Cited

Contributors

About the Editor

Index