Plan Benefits

The careful management of our natural resources, including land, water, wildlife, and plants, is a responsibility that Stanford takes seriously. Development of a Habitat Conservation Plan is an important step toward this goal. An overview of the potential benefits to species and their habitat, Stanford University, and the community are listed below.

Species & Habitat

• Directly supports species included in the plan through the following biological goals:
  • Maintain and enhance natural communities so that they benefit the Covered Species.
  • Stabilize the local California tiger salamander population and increase its chance of long-term persistence at Stanford.
  • Maintain ponds to promote California tiger salamander reproduction in the Foothills.
  • Increase the local California red-legged frog population and increase its chance of long-term persistence at Stanford.
  • Maintain or improve habitat that could support the San Francisco gartersnake and continue to contribute to the body of information about gartersnakes at Stanford.
• Provides an "umbrella of protection" for many other local species
• Increases connectivity for species between occupied areas
• Creates a program to identify and reduce future threats and impacts to species

Stanford University

• Provides for coordinated monitoring, management, and restoration plans
• Provides a substantial commitment of resources at the onset of the program which allows for the initiation of conservation actions
• Increases knowledge of threatened and endangered species
• Provides clear guidelines on how and where to protect habitat
• Provides framework to take advantage of future opportunities and partnerships
• Helps promote resource conservation and education
• Allows development of new facilities needed to achieve Stanford University’s academic mission

Community

• Increases local knowledge of threatened and endangered species and related ecological resources
• Creates opportunities for cooperative regional efforts to conserve national resources