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PHJV Implementation Plan Prairie PLANNING FOR THE FUTURE Prairie Habitat Joint Venture: The Prairie Parklands IMPLEMENTATION PLAN 2013-2020 North American Waterfowl Management Plan Plan nord-americain de gestion de la sauvagine Plan de Manejo de Aves Acuaticas de Norteamerica Figure 1 Prairie Habitat Joint Venture area LEGEND Prairie Habitat Joint Venture Area Prairie Parkland Prairie 1 Prairie 2 Aspen Parkland 3 Peace Parkland Western Boreal Forest Whitehorse ^Whitehorse Yellowknife ^Yellowknife 3 Edmonton ^Edmonton 2 ^Victoria Regina ^ 1 ^Regina ^ 1 ^ Winnipeg ^ ^Winnipeg Helena ^Helena Bismarck ^Bismarck 0 500 1,000TorontoKilometers 0 500 1,000^TorontoKilometers ^ ^ ^ On the cover: Large Photo: Mallard Hen with Ducklings/©Ducks Unlimited Canada /Brian Wolitski Left to Right: Blue-winged Teal Nest/©Ducks Unlimited Canada Wetland Habitat/©Ducks Unlimited Canada Blue-winged Teal Drake/©Ducks Unlimited Canada/Tye Gregg This document was prepared by the Prairie Habitat Joint Venture Science Committee: Bob Clark (Chair) Michael Barr (Alberta PHJV contact) Blake Bartzen Pauline Bloom Stephen Carlyle (Manitoba PHJV contact) Jason Caswell Jim Devries Kiel Drake Dave Howerter Joel Ingram Ann McKellar Stuart Slattery Mike Watmough Corie White (Saskatchewan PHJV contact) Scott Wilson Deanna Dixon (ex-officio, PHJV Coordinator) Contributors: Prairie Habitat Joint Venture Advisory Board: David Ingstrup (Chair), Ron Bjorge, Jim Duncan, Glen McMaster, Lyle Saigeon, Tim Sopuck, Scott Stephens, Kevin Teneycke Prairie Habitiat Joint Venture Associates: Mike Anderson, Ron Bennett, Dave Duncan, Shane Gabor, Peter Joyce, Brian Kazmerik, Pat Kehoe, Dave Kostersky, Dave Phillips, Dean Smith Recommended Citation: Prairie Habitat Joint Venture. 2014. Prairie Habitat Joint Venture Implementation Plan 2013-2020: The Prairie Parklands. Report of the Prairie Habitat Joint Venture. Environment Canada, Edmonton, AB. On the cover: Large Photo: Mallard Hen with Ducklings/©Ducks Unlimited Canada /Brian Wolitski Left to Right: Blue-winged Teal Nest/©Ducks Unlimited Canada Wetland Habitat/©Ducks Unlimited Canada Blue-winged Teal Drake/©Ducks Unlimited Canada/Tye Gregg PHJV: THE PRAIRIE PARKLAND REGION IMPLEMENTATION PLAN 2013-2020 Table of Contents Acknowledgements ..........................................................1 F. Developing New Objectives for People: Building Support for Conservation ............................................34 List of Tables .....................................................................2 1. Human Dimensions ......................................................34 List of Figures ...................................................................2 2. Ecological Goods and Services: List of Appendices ............................................................3 Case-studies of the Socioeconomic Benefits of Conservation Programs ................................................36 Preface ..............................................................................4 Executive Summary ..........................................................6 G. Conservation Programs and Partnerships ................. 39 1. Direct Programs ............................................................ 39 Introduction .....................................................................8 2. Stewardship Programs ..................................................39 The Prairie Parkland Region ..........................................10 3. Policy Initiatives — Agriculture, A. Status of Bird Populations .............................................. 10 Wetlands and Native Grasslands .................................40 1. Status of Waterfowl ....................................................... 10 4. Management .................................................................. 42 2. Status of Shorebirds, Waterbirds and Landbirds .......12 5. Communications and Education ................................ 43 6. Coordination.................................................................. 43 B. Status of Waterfowl Habitat .........................................15 7. Partnerships ................................................................... 43 1. Upland Habitat .............................................................. 15 2. Wetland Habitat .............................................................18 H. Research and Evaluation — Biological Foundations, Policy and Human Dimensions .................................. 44 C. Accomplishments .........................................................21 1. Waterfowl Habitat and Duck Productivity ................ 21 I. Expenditure Forecast .................................................... 45 2. Shorebirds, Waterbirds and Landbirds .......................24 J. Literature Cited ..............................................................48 D. Setting Habitat Objectives — Appendices .....................................................................50 Biological Foundations ................................................25 1. Waterfowl Target Landscapes ......................................25 2. Waterfowl Habitat Objectives — Notes: Updating Process ...........................................................25 The Western Boreal Forest component of the PHJV Habitat 3. Shorebird, Waterbird and Landbird Objectives ........ 26 Implementation Plan is a separate document. E. Habitat Objectives ........................................................ 26 Area measurements are shown in acres in this Plan; to convert 1. Waterfowl Habitat Restoration Scenarios acres to hectares, divide acres by 2.47. and Objectives .....................................................................26 All dollar amounts are shown in Canadian currency (CDN $). 2. Waterfowl Habitat Retention Objectives .........................28 3. Projecting Reductions in Hatched Nest Deficits ............28 4. Shorebird, Waterbird and Landbird Habitat Objectives .............................................29 5. Special Wetlands and Large Marsh Acquisitions ........... 34 Acknowledgements The Prairie Habitat Joint Venture (PHJV) Implementation various ways, as did Danica Hogan and John Conkin of Bird Plan 2013-2020: The Prairie Parkland Region was prepared Studies Canada and Bruce MacDonald and Ron Bennett by the PHJV Science Committee. The three provincial of the Canadian Wildlife Service. Zhong Li and Gillian implementation leads — Michael Barr (Alberta), Corie Turney of the Canadian Wildlife Service assisted with White (Saskatchewan) and Stephen Carlyle (Manitoba) land-use change analyses and the production of associated and their respective teams made substantial contributions. map products. Aquila Samson and Peter McCartney Primary authors of various sections include Pauline Bloom, provided photographs. Barbara Robinson’s role as publishing Bob Clark, Jim Devries, Deanna Dixon, Kiel Drake, Dave coordinator and editor greatly improved the document. Duncan, Shane Gabor, Dave Howerter, Joel Ingram, Peter The PHJV’s accomplishments would not be possible Joyce, Dave Kostersky, Ann McKellar, Dave Phillips, Stuart without the ongoing commitment of more than 300 partner Slattery, Dean Smith and Scott Wilson. organizations and 17,000 landowners who have supported Brian Kazmerik, Lyle Boychuk, Llwellyn Armstrong and wetland-habitat conservation projects across the Canadian Glenn Mack of Ducks Unlimited Canada contributed in Prairies for nearly 30 years. PHJV: THE PRAIRIE PARKLAND REGION IMPLEMENTATION PLAN 2013-2020 1 List of Tables List of Figures Table 1. Ten-year average duck and pond counts in the Figure 1. Prairie Habitat Joint Venture area, showing the Prairie Habitat Joint Venture’s Prairie Parkland Region Prairie Parkland Region and the Western Boreal Forest. (2005-2014), revised NAWMP goals for the PHJV, and Figure 2. Importance of Prairie Habitat Joint Venture percent difference between recent average count and Region to North American breeding populations of both long-term average (1955-2014) and 80th percentile dabbling and diving ducks. (aspirational NAWMP goal) counts. Figure 3. Distribution of survey locations for waterfowl in Table 2. Estimated change in three primary land-use types Canada and the United States. composing the land base within the majority of the Prairie Habitat Joint Venture planning area, 1971, 1986, 2001, 2006 Figure 4. Trends in 10-year running average breeding and 2011 (source: Statistics Canada Census of Agriculture, populations for the seven most common dabbling duck Saskatchewan and Manitoba Crop Insurance). species, three most common diving duck species, and ponds from the Waterfowl Breeding Population and Habitat Table 3. Estimates of historical wetland area loss (2001- Survey conducted annually across the Prairie Habitat Joint 2011), and remaining wetland areas within Prairie Habitat Venture area, 1955-2014. Joint Venture Target Landscapes of Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. Figure 5. Comparison of northern pintail population trajectories in Alaska/Northern Canada, Northern U.S. Table 4. Habitat restoration and retention accomplishments states and Prairie Canada, 1961-2012 (source: USFWS/ within the Prairie Habitat Joint Venture area, 2007-2012, CWS). relative to initial 25-year projections. Figure 6. Statistics Canada Census of Agriculture units Table 5. Estimated number of hatched nests (± standard (municipalities) used to characterize landscape change in deviation) produced by nesting dabbling ducks in the the Prairie Habitat Joint Venture area. Prairie Habitat Joint Venture area. Figure 7. Changes in acres of
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