The SGCN Summaries were developed to provide basic natural-history information on SGCN and to address specific threats that cannot be addressed through conservation of landscape features alone. The Comments provided in the summaries include conservation actions, research, surveys and monitoring needed to address the associated threats that will not be addressed at the landscape feature scale, as well as other issues important to conservation of the species.
Some priority conservation needs are identified in the Introduction to SGCN Summaries.
These needs were identified through a combination of sources, including literature review, discussions with species experts and other natural resource professionals and review of previously existing strategies and plans developed by State and national conservation partners.