They may be helpful in advancing proposals for habitat conservation plans, and will be used as one tool in evaluation of proposals for the Preble's Meadow Jumping Mouse Habitat Protection Grants. The zones are mapped to identify the places on the ground in which actions may be taken. This zone represents areas in which PMJM are known to occur. Zone also represents adjacent areas with continuations of occupied habitat into adjacent habitat patches that are likely to be occupied. The supposition in this zone is that mouse management will be as inclusive as possible.
Setbacks are as generous with core and buffer concepts in place.
Areas of poor quality are restored and mice are monitored periodically to ensure their well being. The assumption is that a linkage is practical and that mice will survive there. The former would serve to protect or enhance the genetic diversity of each subpopulation. The structure of the linkage would differ in each case. In some cases this division is subjective or based on expertise of individual scientists.