Place to begin presentation of options for the standardization of the procedures used for accounting and their incorporation into watershed level watershed restoration planning so that initiatives can tie into capacity and funding sources legislated to offset industrial impacts through permitting/permission granting processes.
HEP is a habitat-based can be used to document the quality and quantity of available habitat providing "information for two general types of wildlife habitat [fish habitat included] comparisons: the relative value of different areas at the same point in time; and the relative value of the same areas at future points in time. By combining the two types of comparisons, the impact of proposed or anticipated land and water use changes on wildlife habitat can be quantified." https://www.fws.gov/policy-library/870fw1
Place to begin presentation of options for the standardization of the procedures used for accounting and their incorporation into watershed level watershed restoration planning so that initiatives can tie into capacity and funding sources legislated to offset industrial impacts through permitting/permission granting processes.
Habitat Evaluation Procedures (HEP)
HEP provides a decent methodology for quantifying predicted and actual impacts as there are many examples of this in action and it is somewhat reproducible from place to place and situation to situation. Original handbook is here https://books.google.ca/books?id=HNIUAQAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false
HEP is a habitat-based can be used to document the quality and quantity of available habitat providing "information for two general types of wildlife habitat [fish habitat included] comparisons: the relative value of different areas at the same point in time; and the relative value of the same areas at future points in time. By combining the two types of comparisons, the impact of proposed or anticipated land and water use changes on wildlife habitat can be quantified." https://www.fws.gov/policy-library/870fw1
Example of HEP methods in action here and elsewhere on https://projects.eao.gov.bc.ca/