On the private land landscape, the regulatory approach to conservation has been an utter failure, which is one of the reasons that rural and agricultural communities have reacted so badly to this. I make the point that in the documents you put out there's a real lack of acknowledgement of rural agricultural and natural resource communities.
I took down the list of your key groups and categories. I did not see rural communities mentioned there. I did not see natural resource communities mentioned there. And I did not see farm groups. You probably want to put farm groups under industry, but agriculture is as much of a culture as it is an industry. I would urge that they be included. What I find in all these kinds of documents and discussions is that rural natural resource and agricultural communities are always forgotten, and that simply must change.
Regarding your points about connectivity, joining preserved areas, have you given any thought to the fact that in between these preserved areas there is often privately owned land, natural resource harvesting lands, lands of importance to rural economies, often managed sustainably? Don't you think that's an issue, the fact that people live in these areas you want to connect?