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35 Baseline conditions: The physical, chemical, biological, social, economic, and cultural setting in which the proposed project is to be located. Baseline conditions indicate where local impacts (both positive and negative)
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36 MANAGER'S GUIDE TO THE INTEGRATED ECOLOGICAL FRAMEWORK Compliance costs: Expenditure of time or money in conforming with government requirements such as legislation or regulation. Connectivity (requirements)
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37 MANAGER'S GUIDE TO THE INTEGRATED ECOLOGICAL FRAMEWORK two larger habitats, and the analysis is done to help conservationists recognize the optimal path between two areas of habitat. Crediting: Providing credit for mitigation or restoration actions, usually involves specifying quantities of individual resources (e.g., acres)
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38 MANAGER'S GUIDE TO THE INTEGRATED ECOLOGICAL FRAMEWORK techniques that use species observations and other data, and the use of inductive and/or deductive modeling. Downscaling: The process of transferring information from a coarser resolution to a finer resolution (e.g., from 15 km pixels to 4 km pixels)
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39 MANAGER'S GUIDE TO THE INTEGRATED ECOLOGICAL FRAMEWORK Ecoregion: A geographic area with relative homogeneity in ecosystems. Ecoregions depict areas within which the mosaic of ecosystem components (biotic and abiotic as well as terrestrial and aquatic)
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40 MANAGER'S GUIDE TO THE INTEGRATED ECOLOGICAL FRAMEWORK Environmental conservation strategy: The combination of mapped locations and actions to achieve the conservation objectives for resources. Environmental permitting: Federal and state laws require authorization before taking actions that affect regulated environmental resources.
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41 MANAGER'S GUIDE TO THE INTEGRATED ECOLOGICAL FRAMEWORK organism lives or the physical environment that surrounds (influences and is used by) a species population (Franklin Institute 2011)
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42 MANAGER'S GUIDE TO THE INTEGRATED ECOLOGICAL FRAMEWORK collection, mapping, and assessment. An EO is defined as an area of land and/or water in which an element (such as a species or ecological unit)
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43 MANAGER'S GUIDE TO THE INTEGRATED ECOLOGICAL FRAMEWORK Mitigation (or conservation) bank: A site, or suite of sites, where resources (e.g., wetlands, streams, riparian areas)
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44 MANAGER'S GUIDE TO THE INTEGRATED ECOLOGICAL FRAMEWORK include resources types, resource area, and other measures of resource viability that must be achieved for successful mitigation. Predicted species locations: See predictive species modeling (or predictive models of priority resources)
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45 MANAGER'S GUIDE TO THE INTEGRATED ECOLOGICAL FRAMEWORK Regional general permit (RGP) : One of three types of permits established under CWA Section 404 to regulate the discharge of dredged and fill material into waters of the United States, including wetlands.
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46 MANAGER'S GUIDE TO THE INTEGRATED ECOLOGICAL FRAMEWORK evaluators and observers and across multiple measurements and observations, and (5) acceptance by a peer-reviewed journal or approval by a panel of independent experts through a comparatively rigorous, objective, and scientific review.
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47 MANAGER'S GUIDE TO THE INTEGRATED ECOLOGICAL FRAMEWORK time and resources to complete a transportation process as efficiently as possible. Section 1309 of the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (TEA-21)
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48 MANAGER'S GUIDE TO THE INTEGRATED ECOLOGICAL FRAMEWORK existing plan, to getting it programmed, to the end, when it is approved for implementation. The delivery of a transportation project is the process of implementing it once it is developed.
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