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Conservation Priorities

Habitat Connectivity and Functionality

Goal: Improve and maintain habitat connectivity and functionality at the landscape scale.

Objectives

Terrestrial habitats are connected across both public and private lands, allowing the movement of native plants and wildlife to meet their life history needs.

Aquatic habitats are connected, allowing aquatic organisms to move within lakes, streams, and floodplains to meet their life history needs.

Healthy Habitats and Biodiversity

Goal: Maximize self-sustaining native species biodiversity and ecosystem resilience.

Objectives

Native species diversity and resilience are maintained or restored.

Populations of focal species are stable or increasing.

Ecosystem integrity and resilience is sustained or restored.

Water Quality and Hydrologic Integrity

Goal: Improve and maintain water quality and hydrologic function to support resilient aquatic systems for all life that depend on them

Objectives

Headwater wetlands, streams, and riparian areas are healthy and resilient to disturbances.

Streams are connected to their floodplains and support aquatic organism passage; stream function supports hydrologic connectivity.

Human-built infrastructure is resilient to extreme water fluctuations and doesn’t degrade hydrologic function.

Excess erosion, sedimentation, nutrients, and contaminants in Lake Superior tributaries are reduced and healthy water quality is maintained.

Climate Resilience

Goal: Maximize the resilience of ecosystems and communities to climate change.

Objectives

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Inclusive Community Engagement 

Goal: Maximize community engagement in conservation related work, including input from local communities, the underserved, and Indigenous people.  

Objectives

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Prepare for and Address Current and Emerging Threats 

Goal: Mitigate current and emerging environmental threats through strategic and coordinated conservation efforts.

Objectives

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