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RaBET (Rangeland Brush Estimation Toolbox for Major Land Resource Areas (MLRAs)) is an online ArcGIS toolbox that generates accurate geospatial and tabular data describing canopy cover at the tract level to streamline landowner agreements (USFWS Partners for Fish and Wildlife PFW) and/or NRCS Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) contracts for brush management. Priority MLRAs cover 33.8 million acres with 20.6 million acres of grasslands. This project supports the integration of RaBET into project planning and contract development and is projected to increase the number of contracts and acres impacted by 25% (23,750 acres) in these MLRAs in Kansas and Nebraska through NRCS EQIP alone, based on 2020 enrollment....
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Pilot Aquatic Grassland Prioritization Tool Focused on Topeka Shiner and Cogeners. Objectives: 1) Identify data sets and develop methodology building on existing analyses of priority watersheds and fish habitat selection criteria across grassland ecosystem 2) Assess need and feasibility to develop decision tool for strategically addressing measureable, cross-programmatic conservation aquatic grassland benefits. Programs (Fish Habitat, Fish Passage, Partners and FAC, ES and NWR) and partners (Midwest Landscape Initiative and Great Plains FHP) can use this tool to support decisions for committing resources within and across grassland ecosystems to priority areas with multi-species benefits (initial focus on Topeka...
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Pollinator surveys are currently being conducted in North Dakota, but we are lacking data in other areas. Given likely petitions on the horizon, having baseline data for pollinators will be essential for an informed response. Additionally, these data will be important for habitat prioritization. Given the complexity and difficulty for comprehensive identification of all key pollinators and the urgency of threatened petitions, initial projects should likely focus on bees and butterflies. Results of these surveys will also help guide where and how to sample several at risk species in different habitat types across several states. Ultimately this information could inform a national pollinator survey database development.PI:...
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The GET is a cross-programmatic, cross-regional team consisting of US Fish and Wildlife Service grassland ecosystem conservation practitioners.GET mission: We will work within and across US Fish and Wildlife Service programs and with external partners and partnerships to deliver strategic conservation actions and information for the grasslands biome and FWS trust species within the biome.GET vision: Our vision is a healthy, functional grasslands biome that supports wildlife and people.GET Principles: We bring people together for conservation - we engage people with diverse perspectives; listen to understand past and present circumstances, and then work together to address challenges; we co-develop and acquire science...
The American sand lance (Ammodytes americanus, Ammodytidae) and the Northern sand lance (A. dubius, Ammodytidae) are small forage fishes that play an important functional role in the Northwest Atlantic Ocean (NWA). The NWA is a highly dynamic ecosystem currently facing increased risks from climate change, fishing and energy development. We need a better understanding of the biology, population dynamics and ecosystem role of Ammodytes to inform relevant management, climate adaptation and conservation efforts. To meet this need, we synthesized available data on the (a) life history, behaviour and distribution; (b) trophic ecology; (c) threats and vulnerabilities; and (d) ecosystem services role of Ammodytes in the...
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Bumble bee populations have decreased rapidly in the past 25 years resulting in the IUCN Red List identifying 12 species, more than 25% of all species in America north of Mexico, as species of conservation concern. The Great Plains is the mixing pot for eastern and western species, with historic records for 22 bumble bee species (nearly 50% of the North American fauna), including eight species identified as threatened by the IUCN Red List and four species currently listed as threatened, endangered, or petitioned for T&E status and at least two more that may be petitioned in the near future. The FWS relies on the best available science to make listing and conservation decisions, yet existing data sets are outdated...
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This project will partially support a PhD student at South Dakota State University (SDSU) advised by a diverse partnership engaged in wetlands conservation in SD (e.g., USFWS, SDGFP, NRCS, PPJV, NGOs). It will use recent advancements in remote sensing technology and analytical frameworks to identify the location and type of drained wetlands in the Prairie Pothole Region of eastern South Dakota. There will be multiple practical uses of these data, with the following hierarchical objectives, which may be expanded as resources allow: 1) quantify, spatially delineate, and classify drained wetland basins in eastern South Dakota and compile them in a format useable by habitat delivery constituents (e.g., USFWS, USDA-NRCS,...
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The objective of this project will be to combine and analyze existing GIS layers describing the known and modeled distribution of the highest priority declining grassland bird species with newly-developed layers of the potentially undisturbed lands (PUDL) and plowprint information to identify those places on the landscape where conservation delivery is likely to bring about the most progress toward meeting population trend goals for the species. These are the highest priority tasks identified by the JV Tech Committee.Science-based conservation design informed by the best current spatial tools available for the NGPJV landscape. Sets the stage for a true SHC approach to delivery of conservation for the grassland species...
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This project will revise existing priority protection and restoration watersheds for 5-7 aquatic guilds and 4-8 priority aquatic species across the Grassland Ecosystem. The project will utilize and update the original model platform used to create the first priorities for the Great Plains Fish Habitat Partnership (GPFHP) in 2011 and utilize input from the Partners Council fishery experts of the GPFHP, which is composed of twenty state and federal agencies and nonprofits focused on aquatic conservation in the Great Plains. Benefits of the proposed outcome will be a broad consensus on input data for the analysis and locations for focused implementation of habitat conservation and monitoring to address the multiple...
    map background search result map search result map Expansion of pollinator surveys in grassland states Spatial Prioritization for Grassland Bird Conservation on Undisturbed Grassland and Adjacent Tracts in the Northern Great Plains Joint Venture Developing a restorable wetlands database with partners in eastern South Dakota to support strategic wetlands conservation Amplifying Brush Management for the Birds - RaBET tool development in collaboration with NRCS and ARS Update GPFHP information used to develop priority watersheds Bee Atlas Regional Landscape-scale Prioritization and Decision Tool for Aquatic Habitat Restoration and Conservation Opportunity in LR6 Grassland Ecosystem Grassland Ecosystem Team (GET) Developing a restorable wetlands database with partners in eastern South Dakota to support strategic wetlands conservation Bee Atlas Amplifying Brush Management for the Birds - RaBET tool development in collaboration with NRCS and ARS Expansion of pollinator surveys in grassland states Spatial Prioritization for Grassland Bird Conservation on Undisturbed Grassland and Adjacent Tracts in the Northern Great Plains Joint Venture Update GPFHP information used to develop priority watersheds Regional Landscape-scale Prioritization and Decision Tool for Aquatic Habitat Restoration and Conservation Opportunity in LR6 Grassland Ecosystem Grassland Ecosystem Team (GET)