Given these funding and design limitations, your job is to propose a management plan that is intended to maximize the number of wetland species that can benefit under this protection.
As a local wildlife manager, you have been assigned the challenging task of
designing a wetland preserve in a fragmented, suburban landscape (see map
below). The district office has allocated 10% of its budget towards this effort,
which would cover the protection of a total of five out of the 10 wetlands that are
in your district. The measure gained support because of an assurance that the
public would be granted limited access to some of these areas. Several wetlands
are cut-off from each other due to housing and road development. However,
money could be spent to construct one culvert (tunnel/underpass) to serve as a
connecting habitat corridor, but at the cost of protecting one wetland (i.e. you
can only protect 4/10 wetlands, not 5/10). Protected wetlands will receive a 50 m
buffer zone extending from the shoreline, within which no building permits will be
granted. Water and soil quality tests will periodically be performed checking for
nutrient runoff.
Given these funding and
plan that is intended to maximize the number of wetland species that can benefit
under this protection.
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