Principles for Strategic Conservation and Restoration

This report summarizes principles of landscape ecology and conservation biology that are applicable to the conservation and restoration of nearshore ecosystems in the Puget Sound and are intended to guide the prioritization of sites and actions by PSNERP and others. Principles were drawn from a scientific literature review of landscape ecology and conservation biology. The result is eleven principles derived from the literature organized into three hierarchical scales:

• Overarching Principles
• Landscape Level Principles
• Site-Specific Principles