ABSTRACT: The 2020 AFWA President’s Task Force on Shared Science and Landscape Conservation Priorities: Final Report(Report) recognizes that landscape scale, cross-jurisdictional collaborations are valuable for fish and wildlife agencies in achieving statutorily required conservation of fish, wildlife and their habitats. State Wildlife Action Plans (SWAPs) are identified as vehicles that can provide the foundation for regional and landscape scale coordination toward conservation goals, including goals that scale beyond state or other jurisdictional boundaries. In line with this, the Report recommends that, “AFWA convene a diverse work group to assess and develop recommendations on how SWAPs can improve range-wide conservation of Species [...]
