Wildlife corridors

Before the other side could do little more than bristle at that outrage, Galvin delivered the kicker The amount of permanently preserved land had to be much more than the 100,000 acres already offered. It had to be 245,000 acres—about 90 percent of the entire property. Galvin said his biologists had determined that this was the absolute minimum needed to keep the various habitats and wildlife corridors intact. 

It would protect some of the most significant terrain, scenery, habitats, and wildlife corridors in the northeastern United States set aside areas for snowmobiling and other, traditional recreational uses and still reserve two-thirds of the Maine Woods for commercial use. 

The Ladder Ranch is a major connector in another arm of the Wildlands Project, the Sky Islands Wildlands Network, which straddles Arizona, New Mexico, and northern Mexico. Sky Islands is an attempt to link wildlife corridors, reserves, and islands of mountainous habitats spanning four diverse ecosystems the northern temperate Rocky Mountains region, the southern subtropical Sierra Madre, the Sonoran Desert, and the Chihuahuan Desert. The area is a major repository of biodiversity, including half the bird species in North America. Ladder Ranch also has a captive breeding facility for Mexican wolves destined for release on Turner s land and federal lands. Some of Turner s wolves have been reintroduced at Kieran Suckling s... 

Woody crop cover in agricultural areas benefits a wide variety of birds, small mammals, and deer. Woody crops provide edge effects and corridors with native habitats thereby improving wildlife diversity. Plots averaging about 32 hectares are envisioned so that landscape diversity is preserved. 

Hedges Hedges, especially hawthorn, guelder rose, hazel, and beech, create shelter and homes for a wide number of creatures. Hedges also create essential corridors for wildlife to move from one area to another in safety. 

Beimett, A.R, Linkages in the landscape the role of corridors and connectivity in wildlife conservation, lUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, 1999. 

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