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Executive Summary

Introduction
Purpose and Scope
Developing the Strategy
Value of Conserving All Wildlife-Nongame as Well as Game
Common Themes
Primary Recommendations: Alaska's Greatest Wildlife Conservation Needs
Investing Today for a Legacy of Diversity and Abundance

1. Introduction
Impetus for Improved Wildlife Conservation
Comprehensive Wildlife Conservation Strategies
Alaska's Strategy: Comprehensive and Collaborative
Partnering to Implement the Strategy
Species of Greatest Conservation Need: The "Featured Species" and "Key Habitats" Approach

2. Methodology and Approach
   
1. Project Management Structure and Planning Focus
   
2. Public and Agency Involvement
   
3. Strategy Development
   
Review of Existing Plans and Efforts
Nominee Species List
Species Selection Criteria
Draft "Featured Species" List
Expert Group Meetings and Products
Peer and Technical Review
Habitats Review

4. Development of Summary Products
   
Species of Greatest Conservation Need
List of Primary Recommendations

5. Participants
   
3. Overview of Alaska
   
1. Sociological Framework: Demography and Use of Fish and Wildlife
   
People of the Land
Land Status
Use of Fish and Wildlife
Legal Basis for Conservation

2. Ecological Framework: The Lands and Waters that Produce Our Fish and Wildlife
   Introduction: Alaska's 32 Ecoregions
   Polar Arctic Tundra
   Beaufort Coastal Plain
   Brooks Foothills
   Brooks Range
   Bering Taiga
   Nulato Hills
   Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta
   Ahklun Mountains
   Bristol Bay Lowlands
   Bering Tundra
   Kotzebue Sound Lowlands
   Seward Peninsula
   Bering Sea Islands
   Intermontane Boreal
   Kuskokwim Mountains
   Yukon River Lowlands
   Kobuk Ridges and Valleys
   Ray Mountains
   Tanana-Kuskokwim Lowlands
   Yukon-Tanana Uplands
   Yukon-Old Crow Basin
   Davidson Mountains
   North Ogilvie Mountains
   Alaska Range Transition
   Lime Hills
   Cook Inlet Basin
   Alaska Range
   Copper River Basin
   Aleutian Meadows
   Aleutian Islands
   Alaska Peninsula
   Coastal Mountains Transition
   Wrangell Mountains
   Kluane Range
   Coastal Rain Forests
   Kodiak Island
   Gulf of Alaska Coast
   Chugach-St. Elias Mountains
   Northern Coast Mountains
   Alexander Archipelago
   
4. Challenges for Wildlife and Fish Conservation
   
1. The Changing Natural World
   
Climate Change
Tectonic and Isostatic Uplift
Wildfire
Vulnerability of Species with Restricted or Limited Distributions

2. Lack of Shared Information and Understanding
   
Lack of Information about Species or Habitats
Lack of Spatial Data, Data Systems, and Compatible Terms
Insufficient Public Understanding About Fish and Wildlife Needs

3. Humans as Elements in the Ecosystem
   
Industrial and Community Development
Increased Access and Disturbance
Introduced, Nonindigenous, and Invasive Species
Bycatch
Overharvest
Unknown/Unrecorded Level of Human Use

4. Maintaining Existing Conservation Areas
   
State Special Areas
Needs and Opportunities

5. Conservation Action Plans
   
6. Some Key Habitats of Featured Species
   
7. Primary Recommendations: Alaska's Greatest Wildlife Conservation Needs
   
8. Monitoring of Species and Habitats
   
Ecosystem Monitoring
Collaboration
Summary

9. Strategy Monitoring
   
Evaluation and Reporting
Adaptive Management

10. Implementation
    
11. Strategy Review and Revision
    
12. Glossary
    
13. Acronyms
    
14. Appendices
    
Appendix 1. Vertebrate Species of Alaska
Appendix 2. Road Map to the Eight Required CWCS Elements
Appendix 3. List of Featured Species and Groups
Appendix 4. Conservation Action Plans

1. Introduction
   
2. Table of Contents
   
3. Marine Invertebrates
   
4. Freshwater Invertebrates
   
5. Terrestrial Invertebrates
   
6. Marine Fish
   
7. Freshwater Fish
   
8. Native Amphibians
   
9. Reptiles
   
10. Waterfowl
    
11. Waterbirds
    
12. Seabirds
    
13. Raptors
    
14. Shorebirds
    
15. Landbirds
    
16. Terrestrial Mammals
    
17. Marine Mammals
    
Appendix 5. Key Habitats of Featured Species

1. Forest Habitats
   
2. Tundra Habitats
   
3. Wetland Habitats
   
4. Marine and Coastline Habitats
   
5. Sea Ice Habitats
   
6. Karst Cave Habitats
   
7. Aquatic Habitats
   
Appendix 6. Public Comment Summary -- 2003 and 2005
Appendix 7. Nominee Species List
Appendix 8. List of Planning Participants and Contributing Authors
Appendix 9. Alaska's Population by Community and Ecoregion
Appendix 10. Alaska's Special Areas: Management Planning Status

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