Conservation Priorities Report优先保护的报告.docVIP

California Legacy Project The Resources Agency January 14, 2002 FIRST ANNUAL CONSERVATION PRIORITIES REPORT Table of Contents Purpose 3 California Legacy Project To Date 3 Priorities And Criteria - Resources Agency Departments And Conservancies 6 Agency Wide Priorities And Criteria 6 Department Of Fish And Game 10 Wildlife Conservation Board 12 Department Of Parks And Recreation 13 Department Of Conservation (DOC) 19 State Conservancies Within The Resources Agency 21 State Coastal Conservancy (SCC) 21 California Tahoe Conservancy (CTC) 22 Coachella Valley Mountains Conservancy (CVMC) 23 San Joaquin River Conservancy (SJRC) 23 Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy (SMMC) 24 San Gabriel And Lower Los Angeles River 25 Baldwin Hills Conservancy (BHC) 25 Conclusion 26 FIRST ANNUAL CONSERVATION PRIORITIES REPORT CALIFORNIA RESOURCES AGENCY JANUARY 14, 2002 PURPOSE This report describes the existing criteria and priorities that are used for acquiring conservation land for each of the Resource Agency Departments and Conservancies. It also highlights certain themes or priorities that have wide usefulness and increasing importance to the Administration, the Resource Agency and its constituent Departments and Conservancies. It fulfills the commitment made by the Agency in a letter dated Nov. 27, 2000 from Senator Steve Peace as Chair of the Joint Legislative Budget Committee to Mr. Tim Gage, Director, Department of Finance requesting a “Report on Conservation Priorities” from the California Continuing Resource Investment Strategy Project (now the California Legacy Project) being developed by the Resources Agency. CALIFORNIA LEGACY PROJECT TO DATE The California Legacy Project is developing a systematic method for making conservation investment decisions based on science, societal values, and broad input. In 2001, the Legacy Project focused on defining and refining that systematic method for decision-making. It is now in the intermediate stages of compiling and ev