[PCA] Priority areas for plant conservation in the conterminous US?

Thu Jan 9 09:50:13 CST 2020

Tony,
Great concept for protection and conservation efforts.  How to propose, survey, map, develop consensus and prioritize areas that would inform/support area designations always a challenge.  Southwest public and state lands present opportunities and constraints unique to each state.  Understanding natural resource values and ecological services in Utah has so many moving targets which challenges efforts to gain community and "land owner" support.  Rare plants may be a gateway given their stressors (grazing, water rights, land use and management) and perilous future in many areas.  

Land conservancies, landowners and agencies In New York approach critical species and habitat protection by assessment and acquisition when possible.  Part for that strategy is to integrate multiple vulnerable species, water resources, cultural history and invasive species control to justify management planning.  Birds, herps, plants, water resources and connectivity are all considered in habitat valuation that has been successful in achieving community consensus.  Audubon has Important Bird Area (IBA) program which has designated sites and corridors that focus on avian species and their dependence on land and water resources.   IBA's have been used to guide local and larger scale land use planning projects.  Many groups back east subscribe to theory "If you don't own or control the site, think twice about restoration efforts" and especially before establishing protection/conservation or management areas.   Easements, conservation areas have all sorts of legal implications but may be a landowner option to protect critical habitats in southwest.

Looking forward to permanent move to Kanab Utah later this year and diving deeper into local and landscape scale plant conservation issues.

Paul Fuhrmann 
Habitat Restoration Specialist On-Call
Ecology and Environment, Inc. 
368 Pleasantview Drive 
Lancaster New York 14086| 
Office 716 684 8060  Cell 716 310 2885  
pfuhrmann at ene.com 
www.ene.com 

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From: native-plants <native-plants-bounces at lists.plantconservation.org> On Behalf Of afrates at addsuminc.com
Sent: Wednesday, January 8, 2020 2:29 PM
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Subject: Re: [PCA] Priority areas for plant conservation in the conterminous US?

I was going to make a similar comment as Bob already has.  A number of states have important plant area designations.  New Mexico has done an excellent job in that regard.  See also states like Colorado (they have something like 200 IPA's), Montana, California and no doubt others.   

I would think that some IPA's could have portions that are "protected" (they could be part of a national park or have a special agency designation) but probably many do not.

In Utah, we've talked about IPA's a fair amount but have only designated a few areas and our program is nowhere as evolved as in some other states.

Tony Frates
Utah Native Plant Society

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From: "Bob Sivinski" <bsivinski at cybermesa.com>
To: <bmacbryde at netscape.net>, <Bruce_Young at natureserve.org>, <native-plants at lists.plantconservation.org>
Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2020 11:17:05 -0700
Subject: Re: [PCA] Priority areas for plant conservation in the conterminous US?

> The recent New Mexico Rare Plant Conservation Strategy identifies several "Important Plant Areas" - including an interactive map.
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> http://www.emnrd.state.nm.us/SFD/ForestMgt/NewMexicoRarePlantConservationStategy.html
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> From: native-plants [mailto:native-plants-bounces at lists.plantconservation.org] On Behalf Of bmacbryde at netscape.net
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> MacBryde, B. 1979. Plant conservation in North America: Developing structure. Pp. 105-109 in I. Hedberg (ed.), Systematic Botany, Plant Utilization 
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>     and Biosphere Conservation. Almqvist & Wiksell International, Stockholm, Sweden. 159 pp.
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> Maina, S.L., and J. Villa-Lobos. 1997. Regional overview: North America. Pp. 39-62 in S.D. Davis, V.H. Heywood, O. Herrera-MacBryde, J. Villa-Lobos, 
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>     and A.C. Hamilton (eds.), Centres of Plant Diversity: A Guide and Strategy for their Conservation, Vol. 3: The Americas. WWF and IUCN: IUCN 
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>     Publications Unit, Cambridge, England, U.K. 562 pp.
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> Stein, B.A., L.S. Kutner, and J.S. Adams (eds.). 2000. Precious Heritage: The Status of Biodiversity in the United States. The Nature Conservancy and 
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>     Association for Biodiversity Information: Oxford University Press, New York. 399 pp.
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> In CPD3, the 32 pertinent U.S. sites identified as centers of plant diversity and endemism are listed in Table 15 (p. 50); they are discussed in an overview on pp. 49-57. Those for the conterminous USA are NA12-NA14, NA16a, NA16c-NA16g, NA17-NA38, and MA11. Detailed treatments (including maps) are given (pp. 63-96, and pp. 172-180) for NA16 (California Floristic Province), NA16c (Klamath-Siskiyou region), NA16e (Serpentine flora [western]) and NA25 (Serpentine flora [eastern]), NA16g (Vernal pools), NA29 (Central Highlands of Florida), NA32 (Edwards Plateau, Texas), and MA11 (Apachian/Madrean region of SW North America).
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> Bruce, I'll email you separately with a copy of my 1979 paper. You may also want to contact Dr. John Kartesz, whose BONAP database could give you an update for the information on plant endemism. His website is http://www.bonap.org/  and contact info in NC:   <mailto:jkartesz at bonap.org> jkartesz at bonap.org   tel. (919) 967-6240.
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> From: Bruce Young <Bruce_Young at natureserve.org>
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> Subject: [PCA] Priority areas for plant conservation in the US?
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> I'm working on a paper that describes areas with concentrations of unprotected, range-restricted species in the conterminous US states. The analysis includes both animals and plants. I'd like to compare our results to those of previous studies. I can identify several studies of priority conservation areas that include a variety of animal groups, but surprisingly couldn't find any paper describing priority areas for plant conservation in a quick Google Scholar search. There must be such studies out there. Can anyone point me to them?
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> Bruce E. Young, Ph.D.
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