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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.
NatureServe update of Nature’s Network’s Imperiled Species Cores using new Map of Biodiversity Importance (MoBI) modeling methodology. For more information on MoBI visit https://www.natureserve.org/map-biodiversity-importance.
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The Science Issue and Relevance: Coastal wetlands are some of the most productive and valuable habitats in the world. Louisiana contains 40% of the United States’ coastal wetlands, which provide critical habitat for waterfowl and fisheries, as well as many other benefits, such as storm surge protection for coastal communities. In terms of ecosystem services, biological resource production, and infrastructure investments, the value of Louisiana’s coastal wetlands exceeds $100 billion. Thus, stakeholders are gravely concerned about sea-level rise which is causing coastal marsh habitat to convert to open water and resulting in the highest rates of wetland loss in the world, with nearly 1.2 million acres lost since...
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...
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Recently intensifying drought conditions have caused increased stress to non-native tamarisk vegetation across riparian areas of the San Carlos Apache Tribe (hereafter Tribe) and the Upper Gila River watershed in Arizona and New Mexico. This also increases wildfire risk in the area, making the removal of tamarisk vegetation a primary restoration and climate adaptation objective for the Tribe. The research from this project can improve the Tribe’s capacity to map tamarisk and other riparian vegetation, in addition to monitoring the relative condition and water stress of the vegetation in a timely manner. Specifically, the project will help identify where tamarisk is on the reservation and inform restoration actions...
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Many amphibian species are highly susceptible to changes in precipitation timing and volume because of their reliance on intermittently flooded surface water pools, which are primarily filled through snowmelt and precipitation runoff. ​With increasing evapotranspiration (i.e. transfer of water from land to the atmosphere) due to climate change, the timing and availability of water in key amphibian reproductive habitats will likely be altered. This project will assess the future risk to amphibian populations in the Midwest, identifying present and future richness hotspots and those wetland species and populations most at risk of habitat loss due to climate change. The research team will model landscape level changes...
The Chesapeake Watershed Investments for Landscape Defense (Chesapeake WILD) Grants program supports efforts to conserve and enhance wildlife habitats, sustain natural resources and benefit human communities throughout the Chesapeake Bay watershed. Goals: Advancing climate change adaptation and land-use planning by increasing science capacity to support improved strategic planning, conservation design, monitoring and applied science activities necessary to ensure resilience of natural ecosystems and habitats; Increasing capacity and support for coordinated restoration and conservation activities in the Chesapeake Bay watershed, particularly in historically and systemically under-resourced communities, through outreach,...
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.
The Delaware River Basin Restoration Program implements conservation, stewardship, and enhancement projects in four areas: conserving and restoring fish and wildlife habitat; improving and sustaining water quality; upgrading water management, and reducing flood damage; enhancing recreational opportunities and public access.Since 2018, the Program has awarded $40.4 million to 159 projects, which generated $59.7 million in match, for a total conservation impact of $100.1 million. These projects will collectively restore over 22 miles of riparian habitat and 76 miles of stream habitat, conserve and enhance 1,322 acres of wetland habitat, restore 255 acres of floodplain, improve 27,105 acres of forest habitat and open...
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...
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Many North American shorebird species are experiencing significant population declines, but we have incomplete information about the population sizes and trends for most species. Conservation efforts are underway throughout the Hemisphere to reverse these declines, but we cannot measure the success of those efforts until we have an accurate assessment of population sizes and trends. The Program for Regional and International Shorebird Monitoring (PRISM) is a broad-scale, multi-national effort to monitor both the sizes and trends of shorebird populations (https://www.shorebirdplan.org/science/program-for-regional-and-international-shorebird-monitoring/). PRISM also strives to describe the distribution and habitat...
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This layer represents fundamentally suitable and unsuitable habitat for freshwater mussels in the Meramec Basin as modeled by these authors on May 17, 2017 based on spatial data ranging from 1990 to 2014. Identification of habitat characteristics associated with the presence of freshwater mussels is challenging but crucial for the conservation of this declining fauna. Most mussel species are found in multi-species assemblages suggesting that physical factors influence presence similarly across species. In lotic environments, geomorphic and hydraulic characteristics appear to be important factors for predicting mussel presence. We used maximum entropy (MaxEnt) modeling to evaluate hydrogeomorphic variables associated...
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.
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Salmon runs are an important time when salmon migrate from the ocean to freshwater, swimming upriver to reach spawning beds. These annual events provide an important food source for both predators and for local communities. However, Recent declines in salmon runs have caused hardship in subsistence fishing communities throughout Alaska, particularly in the Yukon River Basin. To adapt to a changing climate, fishing communities, natural resource managers, and scientists need to measure and understand climate impacts onto salmon runs in this region. To monitor changes in salmon populations and manage fisheries, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game (ADFG), U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), and Tanana Chiefs...
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.


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