31.   The state and several timber landowners are drafting habitat conservation plans that would preserve older forests for the murrelet and other species.

32.   The Trust helps individual landowners devise conservation plans in return for a fee.

33.   The species bill would authorize landowners like big timber companies to develop comprehensive habitat conservation plans protecting many species at once.

34.   There is wide agreement on the need for a conservation plan.

35.   They also are against recommending to the Legislature that it require all public water supply utilities to develop water conservation plans.

36.   Turner said he was encouraged that many timberland owners already are writing habitat conservation plans.

37.   Water and wildlife agencies from Arizona, California and Nevada are developing a habitat conservation plan that addresses state and private uses of the river.

38.   Weyerhaeuser Co. followed Murray Pacific in drafting a spotted-owl conservation plan.

39.   While the conservation plan governs dams in Central Washington, it has wide-ranging implications around the Northwest.

40.   AS part of its comprehensive environmental conservation plan, Nexus Golf Resort Karambunai, near Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, recently released its first turtle hatchlings into the sea.