<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>5</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Davis, F. W.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Costello, C. J.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Stoms, D. M.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Machado, E. A.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Metz, J.</style></author></authors><secondary-authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Murphy, Dennis D.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Stine, Peter A.</style></author></secondary-authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">A framework for setting land conservation priorities in the Sierra Nevada</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Proceedings of the Sierra Nevada Science Symposium</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">California Legacy Project</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">conservation planning</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">decision support system</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">GIS</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">marginal value</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">prioritization</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2004</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2004</style></date></pub-dates></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">http://www.fs.fed.us/psw/publications/documents/psw_gtr193/psw_gtr193_5_4_Davis_and_others.pdf</style></url></web-urls></urls><publisher><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Pacific Southwest Research Station, Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture</style></publisher><pub-location><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Albany, CA</style></pub-location><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">General Technical Report PSW-GTR-193</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">195-206</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">The California Legacy Project (CLP) mission is &quot;to enable the State and its partners in conservation to develop and implement a strategic and inclusive approach to conserving and restoring California&#039;s lands and natural resources.&quot; Here we provide a brief overview of a framework that we developed to serve the dual purpose of helping decision makers to evaluate current opportunities (e.g., current proposal applications for State conservation funds) and to help planners develop longer term conservation strategies that highlight general areas, species and communities for more focused analysis and collaborative planning. Site prioritization depends on the resources the site contains, the threat to those resources, and the conservation cost of mitigating that threat. We illustrate our framework using relatively coarse, readily available data for the Sierra Nevada Bioregion. Preliminary results suggest that many of the private lands of the region contribute important conservation value for terrestrial biodiversity. However, inter-site disparities in degree of threat and in conservation costs make the conservation &quot;bang for buck&quot; especially high in a smaller number of sites.</style></abstract><notes><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">presented at Sierra Nevada Science Symposium 2002 October 7-10; Kings Beach, CA.</style></notes></record></records></xml>