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Environmental Planning – Preliminary Site Information and Elements of Master Plan Stella, Missouri. Application of Sustainability Criteria to the Village of Stella, MO for Regional Revitalization Boston, Massachusetts 1445 hrs – 16 November 2006. Environmental Criteria.
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Environmental Planning – Preliminary Site Information and Elements of Master PlanStella, Missouri Application of Sustainability Criteria to the Village of Stella, MO for Regional Revitalization Boston, Massachusetts 1445 hrs – 16 November 2006
Environmental Criteria • Native plant communities predominate • Habitats exist in forms that support MDP native species (Baydack, Campa et al. 1999). • Unique features of landscapes are protected. • Contiguous habitats exist beyond the reach of stochastic events. • Connectivity between habitats is redundant and grain appropriate for native species. • Resources essential to migratory species exist. • Natural disturbance regimes exist. • Soils retain natural mineral nutrient levels and moisture content to sustain native plant species. • Soils retain natural porosity and percolation, stormwater retention, and erosion resistance. • Soils remain clean enough to support native plants, bacteria, fungi, and soil organisms. • Water quantity and speed of surface flows meet historic cycles, durations, and intensities. • Average volumes of groundwater is balanced between withdrawals and recharge. • Water quality of all surface and groundwater is free of contaminates that threaten life. • Flowing water has no non-negotiable obstruction to passage of native life. • Air quality poses no threats to life and photosynthesis. • Global climate is unaffected by human actions with energy budgets on land similar to native landscapes and no increase in airborne pollutants that increase greenhouse gases. • Atmospheric radiation shield is maintained.
200m (656.4ft) Payne, N.F. and F.C. Bryant (1994). Techniques for Wildlife Management of Uplands. New York, McGraw-Hill, Inc.
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Pre-settlement conditions: • Forests • Interspersed temporary grassland • Disturbance regimes • Streams • Native species • Nomadic hunter/gatherers • Present conditions: • Agricultural clearings • Disturbance regimes + human • Fragmentation • Native + invasive species • Climate change • Rapidly changing soc/econ env