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GUADALUPE RIVER BASIN STRATEGIC CONSERVATION PLAN Assessment → Planning → Action Bridging the ‘Knowing-Doing’ Gap in Conservation November 19, 2019 Texas Parks and Wildlife Department Meadows Center for Water and the Environment at Texas State University Siglo Group

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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

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Image from Texas Landscape Project

Native Fish Conservation Areas & Conservation in Texas

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Ecoregions

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Conservation Resources

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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

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Final Conservation Scenario: Top Priority Areas

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Key Resources:• Parcel Size and Proximity to Conserved Land• Wildlife, Mussel, and Guadalupe bass habitat• Riparian Corridors

Final Conservation Scenario: Top Priority Areas

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Key Resources:• Development Corridors• Aquifer Recharge Zones• Wildlife habitat• Major Spring Buffers• Riparian Corridors

Final Conservation Scenario: Top Priority Areas

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Key Resources:• Mussel and Guadalupe

Bass habitat• Development Corridors• Riparian Corridors• Prime Farmland Soils

Final Conservation Scenario: Top Priority Areas

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