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Inventory and Monitoring Programs, U.S. Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, Twentynine Palms

Inventory and Monitoring Programs, U.S. Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, Twentynine Palms. NREA Division Rhys M. Evans Ecologist. Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center. 598,178 Acres Primary USMC Base for live fire & Maneuver Established 1952. Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center.

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Inventory and Monitoring Programs, U.S. Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, Twentynine Palms

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  1. Inventory and Monitoring Programs, U.S. Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center,Twentynine Palms NREA Division Rhys M. Evans Ecologist

  2. Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center • 598,178 Acres • Primary USMC Base for live fire & Maneuver • Established 1952

  3. Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center • MISSION: • Support Live-Fire Military Training • Combined Arms Exercise (CAX) • 22 day rotation, ten times annually

  4. Resource Management Need • Long-term mission sustainability • Regulatory requirements • It’s “The right thing to do”

  5. Planning • Integrated Natural Resources Mgmt Plan (Authority: Sikes Act Improvement Act) • Integrated Cultural Resources Mgmt Plan (Authority: NHPA, DoD Directive 4715.3)

  6. Inventories Completed • Vertebrates • Soils • Vegetation • Rare Plants • Bats • Bighorn Sheep (Nelson’s) Photo: D. Stokes

  7. Desert Tortoise Research completed • Basewide relative density • High elevation • Mortality/Predation • Home Range • Disease (ongoing) Photo: K. Meyer

  8. Line Distance Sampling MULTI-AGENCY APPROACH! detected animal d d L d detected animal detected animal undetected animal

  9. Inventories ongoing • Fairy Shrimp • Invertebrates • Mojave Fringe-toed Lizard • Reptiles Photo: M. Cablk

  10. Recent and Current Projects • Bighorn Sheep Guzzlers • Bat Gates • Free-roaming dog trapping • Tamarisk eradication

  11. Monitoring • Land Condition Trend Analysis (LCTA) • Land Use Contingency Model (LUCM) • Land Management System (LMS) • Ecological DYnamics Simulation (EDYS) • Erosion • Change Detection / Remote Sensing • In progress review, 21 February

  12. Conclusion Photo: J. Heaton

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