Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Focused, Special-Area Conservation Planning: An Approach to Reconciling Development and Environmental Protection -- Preserving Biodiversity through the Use of Habitat Conservation Plans -- The Balcones Canyonlands Conservation Plan: A Regional, Multi- species Approach -- Southern CaliforniaÌs Multi- species Planning -- Managing Wetlands through Advanced Planning and Permitting: The Columbia River Estuary Study Taskforce -- Special-Area Management Planning in New JerseyÌs Hackensack Meadowlands: An Emerging Model for Cooperative State- Federal Planning -- Balancing Conservation and Development in Chiwaukee Prairie, Wisconsin -- Maryland Chesapeake Bay Critical Areas Program: Wetlands Protection and Future Growth -- Anchorage, AlaskaÌs Wetlands Management Plan -- The East Everglades Planning Study -- Collaborative Planning for Development in Bolsa Chica, CaliforniaÌs Wetlands -- Conclusion -- Index -- Contributors.