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snippet: The 2025 Connecticut State Wildlife Action Plan conservation opportunity areas (COAs) represent locations partners can conduct actions to benefit wildlife populations and habitats and achieve State Wildlife Action Plan Goals. There are 7 total COAs that represent broad actions: protect, connect, restore, manage, partner, inform, and research and monitor. This effort combined ecological and social data in a spatial prioritization software called Zonation to identify priority areas that reflect the 7 actions. Each COA has different ecological and/or social data included to reflect its unique goal.
summary: The 2025 Connecticut State Wildlife Action Plan conservation opportunity areas (COAs) represent locations partners can conduct actions to benefit wildlife populations and habitats and achieve State Wildlife Action Plan Goals. There are 7 total COAs that represent broad actions: protect, connect, restore, manage, partner, inform, and research and monitor. This effort combined ecological and social data in a spatial prioritization software called Zonation to identify priority areas that reflect the 7 actions. Each COA has different ecological and/or social data included to reflect its unique goal.
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description: <DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;"><P STYLE="font-weight:bold;font-size:16ptmargin:0 0 11 0;"><SPAN><SPAN>Manage COA</SPAN></SPAN></P><P STYLE="font-size:16ptmargin:0 0 11 0;"><SPAN STYLE="text-decoration:underline;"><SPAN>Data included:</SPAN></SPAN><SPAN><SPAN> The goal of the Manage COA is to maintain or enhance ecological conditions and habitats. To reflect this goal, key habitat maps were included within the Manage COA. Due to minimal overlap in key habitats, spatial prioritization software was not used. Instead, all the key habitats were included within one map to help partners achieve the goal of maintaining or enhancing existing key habitats. The key habitats included open upland, estuarine, palustrine, land water interface, lacustrine, and riverine. The key habitat maps were compiled from existing geospatial data including the </SPAN></SPAN><A href="https://clear.uconn.edu/projects/landscape/ct-highres/" STYLE="text-decoration:underline;"><SPAN STYLE="text-decoration:underline;"><SPAN>NOAA 1 m Coastal Change Analysis Program Landcover Data</SPAN></SPAN></A><SPAN><SPAN>, </SPAN></SPAN><A href="https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/14/5/1091" STYLE="text-decoration:underline;"><SPAN STYLE="text-decoration:underline;"><SPAN>Connecticut Young Forest and Shrubland Habitat Map</SPAN></SPAN></A><SPAN><SPAN>, </SPAN></SPAN><A href="https://www.usgs.gov/national-hydrography/nhdplus-high-resolution" STYLE="text-decoration:underline;"><SPAN STYLE="text-decoration:underline;"><SPAN>USGS National Hydrography Dataset Plus</SPAN></SPAN></A><SPAN><SPAN>, </SPAN></SPAN><A href="https://deepmaps.ct.gov/maps/ef85cf0c55394065a8a74ea97fbd7ede/about" STYLE="text-decoration:underline;"><SPAN STYLE="text-decoration:underline;"><SPAN>Connecticut Hydrography Set</SPAN></SPAN></A><SPAN><SPAN>, and </SPAN></SPAN><A href="https://deepmaps.ct.gov/maps/82672ae5f3764021b9a4804f524f928b/about" STYLE="text-decoration:underline;"><SPAN STYLE="text-decoration:underline;"><SPAN>Connecticut and Vicinity Town Boundary Set</SPAN></SPAN></A><SPAN><SPAN>. </SPAN></SPAN><A href="https://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=f137bb4d81874f5eaccddbf110df098c" STYLE="text-decoration:underline;"><SPAN STYLE="text-decoration:underline;"><SPAN>The 2015 Forest Fragmentation Map</SPAN></SPAN></A><SPAN><SPAN> (core forest) was used instead of forested uplands to highlight areas of continuous forest cover, and </SPAN></SPAN><A href="https://deepmaps.ct.gov/datasets/CTDEEP::deep-property-3/about" STYLE="text-decoration:underline;"><SPAN STYLE="text-decoration:underline;"><SPAN>Connecticut DEEP property</SPAN></SPAN></A><SPAN><SPAN> or terrestrial and aquatic properties currently managed by CT DEEP were also included. </SPAN></SPAN></P><P STYLE="font-size:16ptmargin:0 0 11 0;"><SPAN><SPAN>View the full methods for all COAs in Appendix 4.6 in the </SPAN></SPAN><A href="https://portal.ct.gov/deep/wildlife/connecticut-wildlife-action-plan" STYLE="text-decoration:underline;"><SPAN STYLE="text-decoration:underline;"><SPAN>2025 CT State Wildlife Action Plan</SPAN></SPAN></A><SPAN><SPAN>. </SPAN></SPAN></P><P STYLE="font-size:16ptmargin:0 0 11 0;"><SPAN STYLE="text-decoration:underline;"><SPAN>Potential uses:</SPAN></SPAN><SPAN><SPAN> Partners interested in managing key habitats may use this COA. This COA includes all key habitats, thus if partners are interested in managing specific habitat types or habitat-specific management actions, then refer to the key habitat maps. </SPAN></SPAN></P><P STYLE="font-size:16ptmargin:0 0 11 0;"><SPAN STYLE="text-decoration:underline;"><SPAN>Recommended actions (example actions):</SPAN></SPAN></P><UL STYLE="margin:0 0 0 0;padding:0 0 0 0;"><LI STYLE="margin:0 0 0 48;"><P STYLE="font-size:16ptmargin:0 0 11 0;"><SPAN><SPAN>Stewarding wild individuals</SPAN></SPAN></P><UL STYLE="margin:0 0 0 0;padding:0 0 0 0;"><LI STYLE="margin:0 0 0 48;"><P STYLE="font-size:16ptmargin:0 0 11 0;"><SPAN><SPAN>Use exclusion devices to protect turtle nests</SPAN></SPAN></P></LI><LI STYLE="margin:0 0 0 48;"><P STYLE="font-size:16ptmargin:0 0 11 0;"><SPAN><SPAN>Manage roost sites for bat populations affected by disease </SPAN></SPAN></P></LI><LI STYLE="margin:0 0 0 48;"><P STYLE="font-size:16ptmargin:0 0 11 0;"><SPAN><SPAN>Maintain instream habitat features for cold-water fish</SPAN></SPAN></P></LI></UL></LI><LI STYLE="margin:0 0 0 48;"><P STYLE="font-size:16ptmargin:0 0 11 0;"><SPAN><SPAN>Conservation planning</SPAN></SPAN></P><UL STYLE="margin:0 0 0 0;padding:0 0 0 0;"><LI STYLE="margin:0 0 0 48;"><P STYLE="font-size:16ptmargin:0 0 11 0;"><SPAN><SPAN>Create updated and spatially explicit conservation plans for diadromous fish, vernal pool-dependent amphibians, and freshwater mussels</SPAN></SPAN></P></LI></UL></LI><LI STYLE="margin:0 0 0 48;"><P STYLE="font-size:16ptmargin:0 0 11 0;"><SPAN><SPAN>Mitigate human environmental impact</SPAN></SPAN></P><UL STYLE="margin:0 0 0 0;padding:0 0 0 0;"><LI STYLE="margin:0 0 0 48;"><P STYLE="font-size:16ptmargin:0 0 11 0;"><SPAN><SPAN>Reduce stormwater inputs and stabilize streambanks and shoreline vegetation in urbanized watersheds</SPAN></SPAN></P></LI><LI STYLE="margin:0 0 0 48;"><P STYLE="font-size:16ptmargin:0 0 11 0;"><SPAN><SPAN>Reduce recreational erosion, urban runoff, light and noise pollution, and physical disturbance of sensitive sites</SPAN></SPAN></P></LI><LI STYLE="margin:0 0 0 48;"><P STYLE="font-size:16ptmargin:0 0 11 0;"><SPAN><SPAN>Remove dams and barriers to fish passage where appropriate</SPAN></SPAN></P></LI><LI STYLE="margin:0 0 0 48;"><P STYLE="font-size:16ptmargin:0 0 11 0;"><SPAN><SPAN>Minimize disturbance of spawning habitats for key SGCN fish species</SPAN></SPAN></P></LI></UL></LI><LI STYLE="margin:0 0 0 48;"><P STYLE="font-size:16ptmargin:0 0 11 0;"><SPAN><SPAN>Reintroduce or relocate individuals</SPAN></SPAN></P><UL STYLE="margin:0 0 0 0;padding:0 0 0 0;"><LI STYLE="margin:0 0 0 48;"><P STYLE="font-size:16ptmargin:0 0 11 0;"><SPAN><SPAN>Conduct species introduction/reintroduction</SPAN></SPAN></P></LI></UL></LI><LI STYLE="margin:0 0 0 48;"><P STYLE="font-size:16ptmargin:0 0 11 0;"><SPAN><SPAN>Manage plants, animals, fungi, or bacteria</SPAN></SPAN></P><UL STYLE="margin:0 0 0 0;padding:0 0 0 0;"><LI STYLE="margin:0 0 0 48;"><P STYLE="font-size:16ptmargin:0 0 11 0;"><SPAN><SPAN>Use brush-cutting and mowing that maintain early successional structure</SPAN></SPAN></P></LI><LI STYLE="margin:0 0 0 48;"><P STYLE="font-size:16ptmargin:0 0 11 0;"><SPAN><SPAN>Use deer exclusion fencing to improve recruitment of rare forbs in heavily browsed habitats</SPAN></SPAN></P></LI></UL></LI><LI STYLE="margin:0 0 0 48;"><P STYLE="font-size:16ptmargin:0 0 11 0;"><SPAN><SPAN>Manage non-living habitat components</SPAN></SPAN></P><UL STYLE="margin:0 0 0 0;padding:0 0 0 0;"><LI STYLE="margin:0 0 0 48;"><P STYLE="font-size:16ptmargin:0 0 11 0;"><SPAN><SPAN>Use in-stream enhancement techniques, such as adding woody debris and stabilizing banks (critical for species like brook trout and slimy sculpin)</SPAN></SPAN></P></LI></UL></LI><LI STYLE="margin:0 0 0 48;"><P STYLE="font-size:16ptmargin:0 0 11 0;"><SPAN><SPAN>Stewardship of captive individuals</SPAN></SPAN></P><UL STYLE="margin:0 0 0 0;padding:0 0 0 0;"><LI STYLE="margin:0 0 0 48;"><P STYLE="font-size:16ptmargin:0 0 11 0;"><SPAN><SPAN>Maintain individuals in captivity for future recovery efforts</SPAN></SPAN></P></LI></UL></LI><LI STYLE="margin:0 0 0 48;"><P STYLE="font-size:16ptmargin:0 0 11 0;"><SPAN><SPAN>Complementary or alternative conservation measures</SPAN></SPAN></P><UL STYLE="margin:0 0 0 0;padding:0 0 0 0;"><LI STYLE="margin:0 0 0 48;"><P STYLE="font-size:16ptmargin:0 0 11 0;"><SPAN><SPAN>Implement riparian buffer maintenance or flow protections via conservation agreements</SPAN></SPAN></P></LI><LI STYLE="margin:0 0 0 48;"><P STYLE="font-size:16ptmargin:0 0 11 0;"><SPAN><SPAN>Bog turtle habitat on private farmland may be best maintained through informal agreements and technical assistance, rather than acquisition</SPAN></SPAN><SPAN><SPAN> </SPAN></SPAN></P></LI></UL></LI></UL><P STYLE="font-size:16ptmargin:0 0 11 0;"><SPAN><SPAN>For questions about the layer, contact Katy Bischoff: kathryn.bischoff@uconn.edu</SPAN></SPAN></P><P 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