{ "culture": "en-US", "name": "", "guid": "", "catalogPath": "", "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.", "description": "

Manage COA<\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/P>

Data included:<\/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>NOAA 1 m Coastal Change Analysis Program Landcover Data<\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/A>, <\/SPAN><\/SPAN>Connecticut Young Forest and Shrubland Habitat Map<\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/A>, <\/SPAN><\/SPAN>USGS National Hydrography Dataset Plus<\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/A>, <\/SPAN><\/SPAN>Connecticut Hydrography Set<\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/A>, and <\/SPAN><\/SPAN>Connecticut and Vicinity Town Boundary Set<\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/A>. <\/SPAN><\/SPAN>The 2015 Forest Fragmentation Map<\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/A> (core forest) was used instead of forested uplands to highlight areas of continuous forest cover, and <\/SPAN><\/SPAN>Connecticut DEEP property<\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/A> or terrestrial and aquatic properties currently managed by CT DEEP were also included. <\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/P>

View the full methods for all COAs in Appendix 4.6 in the <\/SPAN><\/SPAN>2025 CT State Wildlife Action Plan<\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/A>. <\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/P>

Potential uses:<\/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>

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