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The South Central Climate Adaptation Science Center (CASC) has several Communities of Practice (CoPs) focused on resource manager needs across the region (e.g. understanding at-risk species and ecosystems, building resilient coastal ecosystems, extreme weather and climate change, etc.). Each CoP has expertise in the subject matter and has been working on projects that are relevant to the resource community, including conducting literature reviews and small-scale pilot projects. The current research project will leverage the expertise of the existing CoPs to enhance the content available through the Conservation and Adaptation Resources Toolbox (CART) as identified through the partnership between the South Central...
Fishes of the Upper Colorado River Basin have one of the highest levels of endemism in the United States. The range and abundance of these fish has declined over the last century and continues to decline as a result of legacy impacts from past management practices, current water management, interactions with non-natives, and other impacts. Seven of these fish are considered imperiled by the American Fisheries Society and four are listed as endangered by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. We applied a complementarity-based approach to develop priority ranks (0 – 1; low to high) for catchments in the Upper Colorado River Basin. We used methods and a framework that we had previously developed for the Lower Colorado...
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Oral sylvatic plague vaccine baits (SPV) and placebo baits were distributed once annually from 2013-2016 on treated and non-treated paired plots from 2013-2016. Black-tailed prairie dogs (BTPD) were live-trapped and permanently marked with passive integrated transponders and ear tags on 4 pairs of plots each year from 2013-2017 to provide capture/recapture data for use in estimating BTPD survival. The first data set (CMR_SPV_RAW_CAPTURE_DATA.csv) lists all captures and associated covariates with each line representing data from a single prairie dog. The second data set (CMR_BTPD_WEIGHTS.csv) lists the weight and associated information for each prairie dog at each handling. The third data set (CMR_FLEAS_BY_HOST.csv)...
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As climate change progresses, profound environmental changes are becoming a widespread concern. A new management paradigm is developing to address this concern with a framework that encourages strategic decisions to resist, accept, or direct ecological trajectories. Effective use of the Resist-Accept-Direct (RAD) framework requires the scientific community to describe the range of plausible ecological conditions managers might face, while recognizing limits to our ability to predict precisely where or how specific climatic changes may unfold or how complex environmental systems will respond - the climatic future does not fully determine the ecological one. Recent advances have improved development and delivery...
FOREWORD The abundance and distribution of Pacific lamprey (Entosphenus tridentatus, formerly Lampetra tridentata) has significantly declined throughout its range over the past three decades. Many factors have contributed to this decline, including: impeded passage at dams and diversions, altered management of water flows and dewatering of stream reaches, dredging, chemical poisoning, poor ocean conditions, degraded water quality, disease, over-utilization, introduction and the establishment of non-native fishes, predation, and stream and floodplain degradation (Luzier et al 2009). Mitigation and restoration actions focused on habitat restoration of salmonid species within tributary habitats may also have contributed...
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The Long Term Resource Monitoring Program is being implemented by the Environmental Management Technical Center, an office of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, in cooperation with the five Upper Mississippi River Basin System states (Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri and Wisconsin), with guidance and overall Program responsibility provided by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The mission of the Long Term Resource Monitoring Program is to provide decision makers with information to maintain the Upper Mississippi River System as a viable large river ecosystem given its multiple use character. The long term goals of the Program are to understand the system, determine resource trends and impacts, develop management...
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The first Annual Report of the Long Term Resource Monitoring Program for the Upper Mississippi River System covers the period from September, 1986 through January 1989. The report includes: program activities information concerning cooperation between member states and agencies; a summary of the past year's data collection effort for water quality; deviations from the Operating Plan; critical paths and funding requirements through 1999; plans for the coming year, and; management of the Environmental Management Technical Center. Technical Center Staff are divided between Ecology and the Computerized River Information Center. Ecology is responsible for the analysis of significant resource problems and for long term...
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Species Status Assessments provide vital information to US Fish and Wildlife for improving considerations for climate change impacts. In the constrained timeline of species listing decisions, it is not always feasible to conduct lengthy quantitative analyses so there is a need for better resources to provide input for rapid decision-making. In this project, the team will work with species status assessment teams to address direct and indirect effects of climate change on priority species chosen through conversations with US Fish and Wildlife regional offices. This project aims to provide an overview of the direct and indirect effects of climate change on species life cycle, survival, species interactions, and habitat...
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Stretching almost 1,900 miles from Colorado to the Gulf of Mexico, the Rio Grande/Río Bravo Basin (RGB) supplies drinking water for more than 6 million people and irrigation for about 2 million acres of land. The river also supports habitat for many at-risk and endangered species. Because of its size and diverse ecosystem services, the RGB faces complex shared-management challenges that will require coordination among many players. This project will provide opportunities for water managers and users across the basin to collaborate to prevent future conflicts and foster innovative water management in the face of a changing climate. The project leaders will design and convene one tribal RGB forum and will design...
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Description of Work The first objective of this project is to restore Atlantic salmon in Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River through development of new and innovative restoration techniques and evaluation of multiple salmon strains to determine their suitability for restoration. A primary focus of Atlantic salmon restoration is to evaluate survival of new strains of salmon stocked into Lake Ontario. As part of this project, the Sebago strain is being stocked into the lake and other strains are being considered for use based on life history characteristics and egg availability. This approach includes acquisition of Atlantic salmon eggs, rearing of salmon to various life stages (fry, fingerlings, smolts), marking,...
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Lake sturgeon are a fish of strong subsistence, cultural, and spiritual importance for many Tribal nations. But lake sturgeon are especially vulnerable to climate change given their unique life history and historical mass declines. Therefore, there is a great need to incorporate Tribal perspectives on lake sturgeon shifts and information needs into adaptation planning to conserve these fish in a changing climate. This project aims to synthesize documented and projected potentiall effects of climate change on lake sturgeon; synthesize Indigenous perspectives and experiences with lake sturgeon in a changing climate; and identify information needs, future research avenues, and potential adaptation options to support...
This map service layer provides information for projects funded by the 20 regional fish habitat partnerships through the National Fish Habitat funds. Projects funded since 2006 are represented in the service layer and the data are expected to be updated annually. Projects in the database range from on-the-ground restoration, partnership coordination, outreach and education events, and species distribution and habitat assessments.
This tool was developed by the State Climate Office of North Carolina with support from the Southeast Climate Adaptation Science Center to provide climate insights for U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service biologists creating species status assessments. CAnVAS offers localized information about weather parameters known to impact a selection of priority-level endangered species across the southeastern United States. Whether it's exploring increases in summertime temperatures or drilling down to how annual average precipitation is projected to change for local habitats, the unique CAnVAS interface offers the best available scientific assessment of climate-based vulnerabilities and variability.
To determine the current spatial distribution of waterfowl nesting areas and understand the importance of environmental variables in the selection of nest locations, we modeled nest densities for six species of geese and eiders that commonly breed on the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, including cackling goose ( Branta hutchinsii minima), emperor goose ( Chen canagica), black brant ( B. bernicla nigricans), greater white-fronted goose ( Anser albifrons frontalis), spectacled eider ( Somateria fischeri), and common eider ( S. mollissima). The data used were from U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's long-term waterbird monitoring program in which single-visit nest searches were conducted during incubation (typically from early...
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Overview This project examines the ecological impacts of several introduced and expanding forest insects and diseases on forest habitats across the northeastern US and upper Lake States region. To address these novel threats, this work applies large-scale, co-developed experimental studies documenting impacts of ash mortality from emerald ash borer on lowland black ash communities in the Lake States and northern hardwood forests in New England; regional assessments of the impacts of the climate change-mediated expansion of southern pine beetle into northeastern pine barren communities; and ecological characterizations of areas experiencing suppression efforts to reduce the spread of the introduced Asian long-horned...
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This manual describes why, how, when, and where data are collected under the Long Term Resource Monitoring Program for the Upper Mississippi River System
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The Second Annual Report of the Long Term Resource Monitoring Program for the Upper Mississippi River System covers the period from January through December 1989. The report summarizes program activities; information concerning cooperation between member states and agencies; program management information concerning staffing and budgeting; variances from the Annual Work Plan and task scheduling for current and future fiscal years. Environmental Management Center and Field Station operations are described and accomplishments for the year are summarized. A listing of completed publications is provided.
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Conservation rank data for each drainage catchments in the Upper Colorado River Basin. Some smaller catchments were not ranked. Catchments are the drainage area (local watersheds) for each individual stream segment within the 1:100,000 scale National Hydrography Plus Version 1 (NHDPlusV1) dataset. The NHDplus catchments have been ranked (valued) based on the representation of native fish species given the threats to their persistence (i.e., non-native fish species, land use, and habitat fragmentation). The ranking process placed importance on areas with several native species as well as areas important to individual species with restricted distributions and so is not simply a species “hot spot” assessment. Catchments...
These map service layers provide information for projects funded and supported by the 20 regional fish habitat partnerships. Projects funded and supported since 2006 are represented in the service layer and the data are expected to be updated annually. Projects in the database range from on-the-ground restoration, partnership coordination, outreach and education events, and species distribution and habitat assessments.
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This conservation assessment of the U.S. Rio Grande Watershed identifies target areas for the implementation of habitat-related projects and priority areas, stream segments, and watersheds to improve ecological condition, restore natural processes, and prevent the decline of intact and healthy systems. Through systematic conservation planning, this assessment addresses multi-species and multi-jurisdictional concerns; work that complements and extends analogous conservation assessments completed for much of the Desert Landscape Conservation Cooperative’s (DLCC) extent. In doing so, it provides a flexible working model into which priority taxa and habitats can be easily incorporated in the future.
map background search result map search result map Procedures Manual of the Long Term Resource Monitoring Program for the Upper Mississippi River System. First annual report of the Long Term Resource Monitoring Program for the Upper Mississippi River System Second annual report 1989 Information Management Plan. Upper Colorado River Basin Catchment Conservation Ranks Final report: Conservation Assessment and Mapping Products for Rio Grande Fishes National Fish Habitat Partnership Projects Black-tailed prairie dog capture data from plots treated and not treated with oral plague vaccine from 2013-2017 in Montana Crafting Ecological Scenarios to Implement the Resist-Accept-Direct (RAD) Framework Expanding the Conservation and Adaptation Resources Toolbox (CART) to the South Central United States Characterizing Climate Change Impacts on Species Ecology to Support Species Status Assessments Indigenous Perspectives on Lake Sturgeon and the Potential Impact of Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation Strategies for Invasive Forest Insects and Diseases in the Northeast Developing a Rio Grande-Río Bravo Basin International Research Conference First annual report of the Long Term Resource Monitoring Program for the Upper Mississippi River System Upper Colorado River Basin Catchment Conservation Ranks Procedures Manual of the Long Term Resource Monitoring Program for the Upper Mississippi River System. Second annual report 1989 Information Management Plan. Final report: Conservation Assessment and Mapping Products for Rio Grande Fishes Indigenous Perspectives on Lake Sturgeon and the Potential Impact of Climate Change Expanding the Conservation and Adaptation Resources Toolbox (CART) to the South Central United States Crafting Ecological Scenarios to Implement the Resist-Accept-Direct (RAD) Framework Impacts and Adaptation Strategies for Invasive Forest Insects and Diseases in the Northeast Developing a Rio Grande-Río Bravo Basin International Research Conference Characterizing Climate Change Impacts on Species Ecology to Support Species Status Assessments National Fish Habitat Partnership Projects