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GUADALUPE RIVER BASINSTRATEGIC CONSERVATION PLAN
Assessment → Planning → ActionBridging the ‘Knowing-Doing’ Gap in Conservation
November 19, 2019
Texas Parks and Wildlife DepartmentMeadows Center for Water and the Environment at Texas State UniversitySiglo Group
Image from Texas Landscape Project
Native Fish Conservation Areas & Conservation in Texas
Ecoregions
Conservation Resources
Conservation Resources to Land Value Index (not all resources shown, just examples)General Look at How a Procedural Model Works
Development
Corridors
Guadalupe Bass Habitat
Parcel Size Fauna Ecological IndexAquifer Recharge
Suitable Sites for Conservation
Riparian Areas
Model Concepts
Final Conservation Scenario: Top Priority Areas
Key Resources:• Parcel Size and Proximity to Conserved Land• Wildlife, Mussel, and Guadalupe bass habitat• Riparian Corridors
Final Conservation Scenario: Top Priority Areas
Key Resources:• Development Corridors• Aquifer Recharge Zones• Wildlife habitat• Major Spring Buffers• Riparian Corridors
Final Conservation Scenario: Top Priority Areas
Key Resources:• Mussel and Guadalupe
Bass habitat• Development Corridors• Riparian Corridors• Prime Farmland Soils
Final Conservation Scenario: Top Priority Areas
