scholarly journals Adaptive management in native grasslands managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service—Implications for grassland birds

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lawrence D. Igl ◽  
Wesley E. Newton ◽  
Todd A. Grant ◽  
Cami S. Dixon
Keyword(s):  
Adaptive Management ◽  
Grassland Birds ◽  
Native Grasslands ◽  
Fish And Wildlife Service ◽  
The U.S

Spatial Education: Improving Conservation Delivery Through Space-Structured Decision Making

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 199-210 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clinton T. Moore ◽  
Terry L. Shaffer ◽  
Jill J. Gannon
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Adaptive Management ◽  
Land Management ◽  
Natural Resource ◽  
Spatial Context ◽  
Biological Processes ◽  
Landscape Conservation ◽  
Structured Decision Making ◽  
Landscape Conservation Cooperatives ◽  
The U.S

Abstract Adaptive management is a form of structured decision making designed to guide management of natural resource systems when their behaviors are uncertain. Where decision making can be replicated across units of a landscape, learning can be accelerated, and biological processes can be understood in a larger spatial context. Broad-based partnerships among land management agencies, exemplified by Landscape Conservation Cooperatives (conservation partnerships created through the U.S. Department of the Interior), are potentially ideal environments for implementing spatially structured adaptive management programs.

scholarly journals Developing spatial models to guide conservation of grassland birds in the U.S. Northern Great Plains

The Condor ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 119 (3) ◽  
pp. 506-525 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neal D. Niemuth ◽  
Michael E. Estey ◽  
Sean P. Fields ◽  
Brian Wangler ◽  
Andy A. Bishop ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Great Plains ◽  
Grassland Birds ◽  
Spatial Models ◽  
Northern Great Plains ◽  
The U.S

THE PORT BOLIVAR, TEXAS OIL SPILL—A CASE HISTORY OF OILED BIRD SURVIVAL1

1983 ◽  
Vol 1983 (1) ◽  
pp. 521-523
Author(s):  
Allan J. Mueller ◽  
Carlos H. Mendoza
Keyword(s):  
Survival Rate ◽  
Road Construction ◽  
Coast Guard ◽  
Government Agencies ◽  
Aythya Affinis ◽  
Lesser Scaup ◽  
Fish And Wildlife Service ◽  
History Of ◽  
Local Use ◽  
The U.S

ABSTRACT On March 9, 1982 oil from an unknown offshore source began to wash ashore near Port Bolivar, Texas. Beach cleanup was coordinated between the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the U.S. Coast Guard, and local authorities. Oiled sand was removed from the beach and stockpiled for local use in road construction. Oiled lesser scaup (Aythya affinis) appeared on the beach almost as soon as the oil did. The Fish and Wildlife Service coordinated volunteer efforts at capturing and cleaning the scaup. A total of 37 birds were captured, with 19 brids being taken in one night outing. Oiled bird cleaning began on March 10 and was completed on March 12. Procedures followed those described by Williams.3 Five scaup were washed three times, 31 washed twice, and one washed once. Thirty-five scaup were released on March 15 and two on April 27. No birds died during cleaning and the survival rate of the released birds is estimated to be 89 to 97 percent. Three factors were responsible for this successful oiled bird cleanup: advance preparation in the stockpiling of supplies and the training of volunteers; the availability of an adequate cleanup station; and the cooperation of volunteers and government agencies.

Conserving Conservation: Field Notes from an Animal Archive

2004 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 145-156 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Madison
Keyword(s):  
West Virginia ◽  
Education Program ◽  
Training Center ◽  
Fish And Wildlife Service ◽  
History Of ◽  
Field Notes ◽  
The U.S

In 1997 the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) opened a museum, archive, and history office at the National Conservation Training Center in Shepherdstown, West Virginia. FWS staff have tried simultaneously to chronicle the history of the agency in an education program and a new archive/museum. Working with artifacts from the history of wildlife biology has reinforced the connections between conserving creatures and conserving history. Both the history of the FWS and the value in sharing this history are slowly coming into focus.

scholarly journals Accuracy of aging ducks in the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Waterfowl Parts Collection Survey

2013 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aaron T. Pearse ◽  
Douglas H. Johnson ◽  
Kenneth D. Richkus ◽  
Frank C. Rohwer ◽  
Robert R. Cox ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Fish And Wildlife Service ◽  
The U.S

scholarly journals Aethodelphax prairianus gen. et sp. nov. (Hemiptera: Delphacidae) and seven congeneric species from North American Delphacodes

Zootaxa ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 2837 (1) ◽  
pp. 48 ◽  
Author(s):  
CHARLES R. BARTLETT ◽  
K. G. A. HAMILTON
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
New Mexico ◽  
North American ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Identification Key ◽  
Congeneric Species ◽  
Native Grasslands ◽  
One New Species ◽  
The U.S

The new genus Aethodelphax gen. nov. is described to include one new species, Aethodelphax prairianus sp. nov. and 7 species transferred from Delphacodes: Aethodelphax aetocephalus (Beamer, 1948), comb. nov., A. alatus (Beamer, 1948), comb. nov., A. caninus (Beamer, 1947), comb. nov., A. concavus (Beamer, 1948), comb. nov., A. megadontus (Beamer, 1951), comb. nov., A. paraparvulus (Beamer, 1948), comb. nov., and A. sagittatus (Beamer, 1947), comb. nov. A diagnosis for all species, illustrations and an identification key is provided. All species are found in the midwestern and southeastern states of the U.S., except A. caninus which is recorded from Arizona and New Mexico, and are all associated with native grasslands.

Invasive Asian Carps in North America

2011 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Grass Carp ◽  
Silver Carp ◽  
Federal Agencies ◽  
Bighead Carp ◽  
Commercial Fish ◽  
Fish And Wildlife Service ◽  
In The Wild ◽  
Asian Carps ◽  
The U.S

<em>Abstract</em>.—Numerous natural resource agency and media reports have alleged that Asian carps were introduced into the wild through escapes from commercial fish farms. This chapter traces the chronology associated with importations of Asian carps to North America and discusses the likeliest pathways of their introduction to the wild. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service first imported an Asian carp species, grass carp <em>Ctenopharyngodon idella</em>, in 1963. Since then, state and federal agencies, universities, and private fish farmers have interacted to import Asian carps, to develop production technologies, and to promote their use in both public and private sectors in a number of different states. These importations and stocking, whether in confinement or, in the case of the grass carp, sometimes in open waters, were purposeful and legal. Asian carps were introduced to take advantage of their unique food preferences (planktivory by silver carp <em>Hypophthalmichthys molitrix </em>and bighead carp <em>H. nobilis</em>, herbivory by grass carp, and molluscivory by black carp <em>Mylopharyngodon piceus</em>). The first known accidental release of diploid grass carp was in 1966 by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in Stuttgart, Arkansas. Other early reports of grass carp in the wild were from waters in Alabama, Georgia, and Florida. Grass carp were reported from the wild in 1970, 2 years before the first private hatchery received grass carp. By 1972, grass carp had been stocked in open water systems in 16 different states. Silver carp and bighead carp were first imported purposely by a commercial fish producer in Arkansas in 1973. All silver and bighead carps were transferred to the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission by March 1974 where they first successfully spawned silver carp and bighead carp later that year. The first report of silver carp in the wild was in Arizona in 1972, although strong evidence suggests that this may have been a misidentification, followed by reports in Arkansas in the wild in 1975. The Arkansas report occurred 2 years before bighead carp and silver carp were returned to private hatcheries for commercial production. By 1977, silver carp and bighead carp had been introduced to Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Illinois, and Tennessee. Research and stockings of silver carp and bighead carp were conducted by at least six state and federal agencies and three universities in seven states in the 1970s and 1980s. Public-sector agencies, which were successful in encouraging development and use of Asian carps that today are in commercial trade, are the likeliest pathways for the earliest escapes of grass carp, silver carp, and bighead carp.

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