Integrating Wildlife Habitat into Local Planning: A Handbook for Maine Communities

Sharri A. Venno

Department of WildlifeandMaineCooperativeFishandWildlifeResearch Unit University of MaineOrono, ME 04469In cooperation withMaine Audubon SocietyMaine Department of InlandFisheries and WildlifeMaine Department of Economicand Community Development

Maine Agricultural and Forest Experiment Station5782 Winslow Hall The University of MaineOrono, ME 04469-5782Miscellaneous Publication 712 May 1991

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

This handbook was initially written by Sharri Venno in partial fulfillment of a master’s degree inWildlife Conservation for the

Department of Wildlife,

University of Maine, Orono. Members of her gradu-ate committee, also acting as reviewers of this version, included Ray B. Owen Jr., Department of Wildlife;William B. Krohn, Maine Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit; Kevin Boyle, Department of Agri-cultural and Resource Economics; Alan Hutchinson, Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife;and Katherine Weber, College of Forest Ressources. Sally Stockwell and Nancy Papoulias, representa-tives of Maine Audubon Society, provided valuable input during this stage in the development of thehandbook as did Josie Quintrell and John Albright, staff members of the Department of Economic andCommunity Development, and Gary Donovan of the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife.Financial assistance was provided by the Department of Wildlife, University of Maine; the MaineDepartment of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife; and the Maine Audubon Society. Ray B. Owen Jr., WilliamB. Krohn, Sally Stockwell, Gary Donovan and Fred Hurley contributed useful suggestions to the finalpublication.Special thanks is given to Leslie F. Brown for the sketches used in this publication, and to the Centerfor Rural Massachusetts, the Environmental Law Foundation, and the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy forpermission to use the drawings of sites under different development schemes.