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Biological Planning in the ACJV

Biological Planning in the ACJV. Biological Foundation Plan Waterfowl Implementation Plan Bird Conservation Region Planning Status of plan in each BCR Ongoing planning Conservation Delivery within BCR Additional biological planning needs. Waterfowl Implementation Plan.

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Biological Planning in the ACJV

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  1. Biological Planning in the ACJV • Biological Foundation Plan • Waterfowl Implementation Plan • Bird Conservation Region Planning • Status of plan in each BCR • Ongoing planning • Conservation Delivery within BCR • Additional biological planning needs

  2. Waterfowl Implementation Plan • Plan completed July 2005 • ACJV specific step-down of NAWMP • Revised focus areas to guide implementation • Implemented research project to provide data for estimating carrying capacity • Black Duck • Brant

  3. Waterfowl Implementation Plan • Next Steps • Consensus on population objectives • Working with BDJV on development of Annual Life Cycle model for black duck • Supports coherence being adopted in NAWMP Revision • Update follows completion of 2011 NAWMP Revision

  4. BCRs in ACJV

  5. BCR Plan Components • Priority species • Species-habitat suites • Focus areas • Threats / Limiting factors • Implementation strategies • Priority needs/actions • Pop / Habitat objectives (if available)

  6. Atlantic Northern Forest • International Plan completed 2005, website developed • Additional planning for priority species • e.g., International Bicknell’s Thrush Group • Proposals for forest bird models • Working forest protection and management (NAWCA and other sources, ~2M acres) • Partnerships in coastal focus areas (multiple NAWCA and coastal grants)

  7. Lower Great Lakes / St. Lawrence • International Plan completed 2007, website developed • Additional planning and delivery in focus regions • St. Lawrence Valley • Priority mapping and modeling • Focus area partnership developed, NAWCA grants received • USFWS Strategic Habitat Conservation Team • Lake Champlain Basin • Ongoing partnership for protection and restoration • Multiple grants received • Grassland habitat delivery, monitoring • Great Lakes Restoration Initiative ($5.5 M)

  8. New England/Mid-Atlantic Plan completed July 2007 Groups doing additional planning and implementation formed around geographic areas and habitat types • Delaware Bay Working Group • BCR 30 Marshbird Monitoring Group • Chesapeake Bay Program Wetland Action Team • Southern Tip Ecological Partnership • Center for Conservation Biology’s Black Rail Working Group • Early successional habitat work groups

  9. Piedmont • Began in Sept. 2005 – effort stalled • ACJV staff developed priority species list • ACJV staff building framework for plan and compiling information • Piedmont proposed as expansion area for Designing Sustainable Landscapes project

  10. South Atlantic Migratory Bird Initiative Update • Began in 1999, plan approved in 2005, updated in 2008; dedicated webpage • $48 million in grant awards in 10 years, 300+ partners contributed $247 million in match; 295,000 acres conserved @96 sites • Submitting formal request to change boundaries between BCR 27/30, BCR 31? • SAMBI Planning area is pilot area for Designing Sustainable Landscapes project • Rangewide Painted Bunting Monitoring

  11. Peninsular Florida • Florida Bird Conservation Initiative began in 2007 • ACJV staff developed priority species list • Website with information; species, habitats, partners, funding, projects, monitoring, climate, etc. • Few actual population and habitat objectives developed for birds, plan not developed yet.

  12. Puerto Rico/U.S. Virgin Islands • Bird Conservation Plan nearing completion • USGS working on SHC/Habitat Conservation Strategy for resident avian species, SDM, focal areas, built off DSL methodology • Need additional biological and conservation planning • Partnership development underway • Climate change (USGS) effort recently initiated

  13. NW Atlantic Marine Bird Cooperative Threats: climate change/prey availability, bycatch, contaminants, offshore development, oil spills, pollution The following actions have been implemented to begin to address threats: • Year-round Ships of Opportunity Surveys • First year reports delivered to MMS in November • First national seabird bycatch workshop, Sept 09 • Telemetry studies underway on Greater Shearwaters, Gannetts, Razorbills, and Audubon Shearwaters • Pre-proposal with components addressing bycatch threats to seabirds in the Atlantic developed. • additional pre-proposals to be developed this winter.

  14. Additional Biological Planning Needs • Finish BCR Plans • Piedmont, Peninsular Florida, Puerto Rico • Population Objectives • Step down from continental objectives • Refine/Develop where necessary • Comparison to habitat capacity • Threats and limiting factors • Develop list for full set of priority species • Species-habitat relationship models • Support DSTs being developed

  15. Example of BCR Focus Areas

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