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Atlantic Coast Joint Venture Annual Report to the Board for 2009

Atlantic Coast Joint Venture Annual Report to the Board for 2009. Management Board Meeting March 10, 2010 via teleconference (handout #5). 1. ACJV LEADERSHIP Ken Elowe, Board Chair, ME Dan Forster, Vice Chair, GA Steve Rockwood, GBTC Chair, FL Joe Fuller GBTC Vice Chair, NC

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Atlantic Coast Joint Venture Annual Report to the Board for 2009

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  1. Atlantic Coast Joint Venture Annual Report to the Board for 2009 Management Board Meeting March 10, 2010 via teleconference (handout #5) 1

  2. ACJV LEADERSHIP Ken Elowe, Board Chair, ME Dan Forster, Vice Chair, GA Steve Rockwood, GBTC Chair, FL Joe Fuller GBTC Vice Chair, NC Laurel Moore-Barnhill NBTC Chair, SC Brad Winn NBTC Vice Chair, GA John Frampton, NAWMP Plan Comm., SC Wayne MacCallum NAWCA Council, MA Rob Deblinger, Council Staff, MA Management Board Members Connecticut Delaware Georgia Florida Maine Maryland Massachusetts New Hampshire New Jersey New York North Carolina Pennsylvania Puerto Rico Rhode Island South Carolina Vermont Virginia Ducks Unlimited (2) National Fish and Wildlife Foundation National Park Service The Nature Conservancy U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (2) U.S. Geological Survey USDA Forest Service Wildlife Management Institute 2

  3. Regional ACJV Staff Mitch Hartley North Atl. Coord. (Hadley, MA) States: ME, NH, VT, NY, MA, RI, CT BCRs: LGL-SL, ANF, NE-MA Other: Coord. With EHJV, Canada JV-Wide Melanie Steinkamp Mid Atl. Coord. (Laurel, MD) States: NJ, PA, DE, MD, VA, WV BCRs: NE-MA, Pied., N. Apps Other: Ches. Bay, Del. Bay Working Groups Andrew MillikenJV Coordinator Debra Reynolds Outreach Coordinator (Hadley, MA) Tim Jones Science Coordinator (Laurel, MD) Kirsten Luke GIS Analyst (Contract) (Panama City, FL) Vacant Assistant Science Coordinator(s) Craig Watson South Atl. Coord. (Charleston, SC) States: NC, SC, GA, FL, PR BCRs: SAMBI, S. Pdmt., Pen. FL, PR-VI Other: Caribbean, Mexico 3

  4. ACJV Highlights 2009 • 433,000 acres of habitat conserved in 2009, over 5.3 million acres total conserved by ACJV partners • 34 NAWCA grants approved (2009) – most ever, and 27 grants recommended (2010); additional oil spill funds received; Great Lakes funds received • Strategic Plan Update completed and approved • Conservation Design Multistate Grant Project underway and ready to expand • Flyway Integrated Waterbird Monitoring and Management fully underway and includes states • Multiple research and monitoring projects funded • JV leadership/involvement in LCC development 4

  5. Strategic Plan Mission The Atlantic Coast Joint Venture will provide a forum for federal, state, regional and local partners to coordinate and improve the effectiveness of bird habitat conservation planning, implementation and evaluation in the Atlantic Flyway region of the United States. 5

  6. Components needed to accomplish this mission • Coordination and Organization • Biological Planning • Conservation Design • Conservation Delivery • Monitoring and Evaluation • Research • Communications and Outreach 6

  7. ACJV Strategic Plan Annual Accomplishment Measures 7

  8. Components, Goals & Objectives Coordination and Organization Provide a structure and process that attracts partners, leverages and generates funding, and implements coordinated planning, delivery and evaluation projects that support ACJV goals and objectives and provide opportunities for collaboration with other wildlife and fish habitat conservation partnerships. • Structure and Partnership Coordination • Strategic Plan, Management Board, Technical Committees, state and focus area working groups • Administration and Funding • Staff, administration, funding 8

  9. Strategic Plan Updated Board meetings and calls completed; December meeting on science/LCCs Technical Committees re-organized Additional focus area working groups Small increase in ACJV admin. budget in FY 2009 and FY 2010 Addressing LCC relationships Continued staff, board and technical committee involvement in LCCs Additional technical subcommittee development e.g., shorebird subcommittee Delaware Bay working group formed Maintain or increase budget in FY 2011 Full time GIS staff and additional science support staff Funding for discretionary projects Coordination and Organization 2009 Accomplishments 2010 Goals/Needs 9

  10. Components, Goals & Objectives Biological Planning Compile and provide information on priority bird species and their relationship to habitats to provide a biological basis for conservation actions • Structure and Plans • Biological Foundation Plan, Waterfowl Implementation Plan, BCR Plans, Marine Birds Cooperative, Web-based information • Steps/products • Priority species, representative spp., population objectives, threats & limiting factors, species-habitat models 10

  11. Components, Goals & Objectives Conservation Design Provide tools to guide management decisions to efficiently achieve bird conservation (and associated wildlife and fish) habitat objectives. • Information available at appropriate scales • Maps, spatial databases, decision support tools • Steps/products • Existing habitat capacity, habitat objectives,landscape change, future habitat capacity, decision support tools, protected and managed lands databases, optimal landscape designs 11

  12. Initial Piedmont BCR planning underway Marine bird planning funded and underway Waterfowl population and habitat objective approach finalized Staff /partner support for NAWMP, USSCP, PIF Significant progress on Designing Sustainable Landscapes project Dynamic sea-level rise project underway Final year of pilot Designing Sustainable Landscapes project Expand to Piedmont and North Atlantic through LCC funding Testing/validating of decision support tools Complete waterfowl population and habitat objectives Complete initial sea level rise models, expand to South Atlantic Initiate additional migratory hotspot mapping Assist Audubon with forest block analysis Biological Planning and Conservation Design 2009 Accomplishments 2010 Goals/Needs 12

  13. Designing Sustainable LandscapesLandscape Changefor Next 100 yrs. Lake Moultrie 2001 +10 years +20 years +30 years Incorporates:sea level riseurban growthsuccession +40 years +50 years +60 years +70 years +80 years Charleston +90 years 13 +100 years

  14. Conservation Delivery Facilitate partnerships for conservation delivery, seek and leverage funding, provide information to influence management and deliver conservation actions guided by biological foundation to efficiently achieve bird and associated wildlife and fish habitat conservation objectives Components, Goals & Objectives • Delivery Partnerships • State, focus area, habitat • Project Funding • JV seed funds, federal grants, new and non-traditional partners, international • Information for Guiding Delivery 14

  15. 433k acres habitat conserved 700 + partner projects Highest success with NAWCA, more oil spill $ Multiple focus area partnerships supported Chesapeake Bay WAT Habitat initiatives e.g. early successional, forests Submit Mass. oil spill projects Great Lakes NAWCA and JV funds Maintain/increase success with Coastal Grants Early successional working groups in North Atlantic Delaware Bay partnership Increase NRCS Coordination Increase NFWF Coordination Pilot decision support tools with decision makers Conservation Delivery 2009 Accomplishments 2010 Goals/Needs 15

  16. FY 2009 Acres Conserved by Program 16

  17. FY 2009 Acres Conserved by State 17

  18. ACJV Partner Accomplishments with Spatial Data FY 2009 18

  19. Highest priority patchesunder 10 yrs CP 36 19

  20. Components, Goals & Objectives Monitoring and Evaluation Facilitate monitoring of bird populations and habitats to assess the effectiveness of conservation actions and track conservation projects to assess progress and guide future actions. • Population Monitoring • Utilize existing monitoring, design new monitoring, flyway waterbird monitoring • Habitat Monitoring • Explore options for habitat monitoring, assess net change in habitat types • Conservation Tracking • ACJV project tracking, spatial protected and managed lands databases 20

  21. Components, Goals & Objectives Research Provide a structure and process that generates, attracts, leverages, and implements priority assumption-driven research activities in support of joint venture established objectives • Research Coordination and Funding • Identify research needs, seek funds through grants and programs • Research Prioritization • Target research to address key uncertainties, conduct sensitivity analysis 21

  22. Flyway Integrated Waterbird Monitoring & Management being developed with states Seabird monitoring funded and implemented Painted bunting monitoring implemented Black duck and brant energetics research nearing completion Research on forest bird use in e.s. habitats Flyway Integrated Waterbird Monitoring & Management implemented Coordination of marshbird monitoring with JV/flyway Models/tools for estimating spatial distribution and density of seabirds Managed lands database developed for additional states Secured lands data in the SE Spatial accomplishment data Science needs compiled and prioritized; funding and coordination through LCCs Monitoring, Evaluation and Research 2009 Accomplishments 2010 Goals/Needs 22

  23. Outside Funding 2007-2009 23

  24. Components, Goals & Objectives Communication and Outreach Develop effective communication products to attract partners, support existing funding and seek new funds, improve internal relations and raise awareness of ACJV conservation priorities targeted to specific audiences. • Partners • Public/External Partners • Congress 24

  25. New BCR websites completed Brochure update Quarterly newsletters Fact Sheets expanded and updated Congress National Fact Sheet Climate Change Insert 12 visits + 7 folders delivered Website updates/meetings Biological Foundation Plan elements online Update fact sheets New folder/brochure New web-based newsletter Spatial Accomplishment Information Congress 2011/12 Budget Outreach Hill and District Visits Field trips Communication and Outreach 2009 Accomplishments 2010 Goals/Needs 25

  26. ACJV Staff Hard at Work 26

  27. 2009 ACJV Admin. Budget 27

  28. ACJV Administrative Budget • FY 2009 - minor increase to $832K; increase in FY 2010 to 882K, could be decreased in FY 2011 (but could be Chesapeake Bay funds) • Increased fixed costs for salary and operations; sharing costs for biological planning and monitoring with Division of Migratory Birds populations branch • No discretionary funds for projects • Need for additional base funding in FY 2011 to implement Strategic Plan, maintain GIS support and have discretionary funds. • Allocation process among JVs based on matrix of JV activities does not explicitly account for size and complexity 28

  29. Budget Maintain existing staff Fully support GIS position (contract) Discretionary funds (partner travel and projects) Workload for staff and partners related to ACJV, LCC, climate change, regional partnerships (e.g. Chesapeake Bay) Articulate clear role, reduce redundancy in larger landscape conservation and climate change efforts Ensure partners are involved in development of science products that meet their needs Concerns and Challenges for 2010 29

  30. ACJV LEADERSHIP Ken Elowe, Board Chair, ME Dan Forster, Vice Chair, GA Steve Rockwood, GBTC Chair, FL Joe Fuller GBTC Vice Chair, NC Laurel Moore-Barnhill NBTC Chair, SC Brad Winn NBTC Vice Chair, GA John Frampton, NAWMP Plan Comm., SC Wayne MacCallum NAWCA Council, MA Rob Deblinger, Council Staff, MA Management Board Members Connecticut Delaware Georgia Florida Maine Maryland Massachusetts New Hampshire New Jersey New York North Carolina Pennsylvania Puerto Rico Rhode Island South Carolina Vermont Virginia Ducks Unlimited (2) National Fish and Wildlife Foundation National Park Service The Nature Conservancy U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (2) U.S. Geological Survey USDA Forest Service Wildlife Management Institute Thanks to the leadership and members of the Management Board and Technical Committees 30

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