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Predators are a known detriment to beach nesting birds at Cape May National Wildlife Refuge. Although the refuge regularly contracts with USDA to provide 2 weeks of predator trapping, predators historically move onto the refuge throughout a breeding season and detrimentally affect the beach nesting birds when contract work has already been spent or USDA is unavailable to get out to specific sites. In recent years, this has resulted in low productivity. Funding is requested to implement more adaptive predation management efforts through either increased trapping duration, and/or to purchase trapping and control supplies for refuge staff, and to purchase supplies to trap and control ghost crabs.
Funding will be provided to Save the Bay, an organization based in Rhode Island that is developing cutting-edge runnelling techniques that are improving thousands of acres of marshes across the region. Save the Bay’s Restoration Director works with partners throughout the Northeast region, and regularly hosts partners in the field and via webinars to share tips and lessons learned on implementing these techniques. Funds will allow her to provide greater regional support in the form of training salt marsh practitioners and sharing evaluation results of runnelling effectiveness that will inform work throughout the Northeast. In addition to these funds, an additional $30,000 of Coastal program funding will supplement...
The Bluestone sculpin (Cottus sp.) is a priority at-risk freshwater fish endemic to the Bluestone River system in Virginia and West Virginia. The species occurs in small, cool streams with gravel and rubble dominated substrates. The taxonomic status of the Bluestone sculpin is unresolved, and its range often overlaps with congeners, with which it may hybridize. To address the conservation status of the Bluestone sculpin, taxonomic analyses are needed to fully describe the species and evaluate the level of hybridization. Additionally, comprehensive surveys and genetic analyses are needed to determine the species range and population connectivity. Locating the species using eDNA may be a viable option.
The Northeast States identified the Least Shrew as a Regional Species of Greatest Conservation Need. To advance conservation, better information is needed to determine the species distribution and conservation status within the Region. To address this need, we are working with the USGS to develop an eDNA survey protocol that will pilot efforts in Virginia and Maryland. Once the protocol is perfected, the pilot effort will be expanded to cover the species’ entire range to collect critical needed to evaluate the species’ status and infor future conservation strategies.
Funding will replenish a 1,000 foot beach to increase horseshoe crab spawning and egg abundance, which will in turn provide new foraging resources for Ruddy Turnstone, Red Knot, and other migratory shorebirds that use the Great Bay-Little Egg ecosystem, a key stopover for thousands of shorebirds. The project site is located along Forsythe’s wildlife drive, with an adjacent viewing platform, which will provide viewing opportunities for this amazing wildlife spectacle. Signage and stewardship (funded from another source) will be used to prevent human disturbance at the beach. This project will serve as an example of successful shorebird management, and the refuge intends to seek funding for additional replenishment...
Determine the distribution, status, life history, and ecology of regional priority at risk cuckoo bumblebees and bumblebees throughout USFWS Region 5. Test effects of habitat availability, land use and land cover, and management actions on regional priority pollinator species and associated species. Attain more information on plant-pollinator networks priority pollinator species to guide vegetation restoration and management for conservation of at-risk, priority pollinator species and pollinators broadly.
Funds will be used to establish a new program for raising Chesapeake logperch at the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission’s Union City Hatchery. Fish will supply reintroduction and population augmentation efforts in Pennsylvania and Maryland.
Source seed is not currently available for commercial vendors to grow native thistles in sufficient quantities for restoration projects. This project will address this shortage by collecting seed of pasture thistle (Cirsium pumilum), field thistle (C. discolor) and swamp thistle (C. muticum) from locations known to regional botanists. These seeds will be provided to a seed vendor that will have them genetically validated. They will then use these seeds to produce native thistles in quantities needed for pollinator restoration projects.
The Fish and Wildlife Program of the Seneca Nation works to protect and restore natural resources on their lands. They have an interest in creating a small pollinator restoration area to serve as a demonstration area and gain experience to conduct larger restorations on disturbed areas. This project provides support to theSeneca nation in the form of Service staff expertice as well as financial support for establishing a pollinator friendly plot.
New Hampshire Fish and Game will use the funds to support captive rearing of White Mountain fritillary. By raising these butterflies in captivity, conservationists will learn key life history traits, including determining suitable host plants, which will help in determining habitat availability. The captive colony will help conservationists understand demographic characteristics of the species and inform protocols for raising the species requires augmentation in the future.
Science Applications obtained support for developing current condition reports that describes the taxonomic status of species, important life history details, and their biological needs. Additionally, threats to the species are described along with the species’ current status. These reports provide a critical synopsis of the species and will be used to inform conservation strategies that secure their future viability.
Funds will be used to increase larval food production at the Northeast Fishery Center in Lamar, Pennsylvania.
The Central Appalachian Mountains is a priority area for conserving golden-winged warbler, cerulean warbler and wood thrush. Funding will be targeted to the Appalachian Fish and Wildlife Conservation Office (AFWCO) to support projects implemented by the Partners for Fish and Wildlife Program (both AFWCO and WVFO) in West Virginia that support forest songbird conservation. Work will be conducted in partnership with the West Virginia Department of Natural Resources, Natural Resources Conservation Service, Appalachian Joint Venture, and others by providing non-NRCS cost share or by funding project that don’t qualify for Farm Bill funding.
The 2023 Diana fritillary West Virginia survey is a pilot study to determine presence and absence on or near a subset ofhistoric locations within the state of West Virginia. Included properties are restricted to West Virginia Department of Natural Resources and partnering forest landowners. Two modes of presence/absence searches will be tested. The first is an opportunisticmeandering search that will be implemented when suitable habitat is observed. The second type will besearches conducted within a randomized grid with structured habitat plots. In both cases, all observedbutterflies will be recorded as points. Data was collected using ESRI Field Maps.
Harrison Lake National Fish Hatchery will use at-risk species funding to support the salary for two tribal youth interns for 52 weeks, to raise three at-risk species of mussels and diadromous fishes, to monitor growth and survival in the hatchery, and assist with tagging and stocking mussels into rivers that are a priority for the State of Virginia as well as Tribes. At-risk species being raised at HLNFH are the alewife, blueback herring, brook floater, the yellow lampmussel, and the tidewater mucket. The tribal intern will also learn how to conduct host-fish suitability tests for freshwater mussels. Funding may be used to support overnight travel that could occur conducting stocking and broodstock collection activities.