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FWS | 2021
Accelerating declines and geographic shifts of salt marshes and species of conservation concern in the northeastern United States have prompted land managers to revise management objectives and…
FWS | 2021
Nearly 1 million Attwater’s greater prairie-chickens (Tympanuchus cupido attwateri) once occupied 6 million acres of coastal prairie grasslands in Texas and Louisiana. Loss and fragmentation of…
FWS | 2021
Preserving avian flyway connectivity has long been challenged by our capacity to meaningfully quantify continental habitat dynamics and bird movements at the temporal and spatial scales underlying…
FWS | 2012
The golden-cheeked warbler and black-capped vireo were listed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFS) as endangered in 1990 and 1987, respectively. In 1992 the 10,000 hectare Balcones…
FWS | 2012
In an attempt to assess the viability of using legacy lidar data of varying collection density to characterize avian nesting habitat by species at a landscape scale, the existing lidar data from the…
FWS | 2012
Vegetation mapping of the public access side of Desert National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) began in fiscal year 2011 and will be completed at the end of fiscal year 2012. The vegetation mapping is…
FWS | 2012
St. Matthew and Hall Islands are located within the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge. The Refuge led a research cruise to these islands for the first time in over 5 years. While there,…
FWS | 2012
As part of a soils survey for the Rose Atoll, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service worked with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and Photo Science to collect lidar data for…
FWS | 2012
The Eastern Population (EP) of Sandhill cranes is rapidly expanding in size and geographic range. The core of their breeding range is in Wisconsin, Michigan, and southern Ontario; however, the…
FWS | 2012
The Migratory Bird Program within USFWS is currently undertaking multiple research projects to evaluate the effects of climate change on migratory bird populations in North America. The goal is…
FWS | 2012
The 3.4 million acres of the Rainwater Basin wetland complex in south-central Nebraska serves as critical stopover habitat for migratory birds in the central flyway. The Rainwater Basin Joint…
FWS | 2012
Conservation planners associated with the Gulf Coastal Plains and Ozarks (GCPO) and Gulf Coast Prairie (GCP) Landscape Conservation Cooperatives (LCCs) require contemporary data on the distribution…