Platte River Recovery Implementation Plan

U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Platte River Recovery Implementation Plan

Piping plover / USFWS Background The Platte River Recovery signatories to the program Implementation Program (PRRIP) agreement, and a diverse group of is a comprehensive, basin-wide water-user interests and program with the goal of enhancing environment groups are involved in the recovery of four federally listed governance of the Program and in species, the whooping crane its advisory committees. (endangered), interior least tern (endangered), the Northern Great The PRRIP is being implemented Plains population of the piping in an incremental manner, with the plover (threatened), and the pallid First Increment covering the sturgeon (endangered), while 13-year period from 2007 through accommodating continued water 2019. There are ambitious goals development in the Platte basin. during the first increment of the Program, including major water Pallid Sturgeon / USFWS The states of Wyoming, Colorado, management changes (e.g. re- and Nebraska, and the U.S. regulating existing flows and adding Department of Interior are to flows through conservation and acquisition), acquisition and restoration of 10,000 acres of Central Platte River habitat for the species in Nebraska, and a robust Adaptive Management component of the Program to learn more about species recovery needs. Piping plover chick / USFWS

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Program Area U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service The land acquisition and management Region 6, NWRS for the target bird species will occur Mike George in the central Platte River region Nebraska Field Supervisor (Lexington to Chapman, Nebraska). Program water activities will be U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service designed to provide benefits for the PO Box 25486 target bird species in the central Denver Federal Center Platte region and for the pallid Denver, Colorado 80225 sturgeon in the lower Platte River USFWS 308 / 382 6468 stretch (below the Elkhorn River [email protected] confluence). These areas are generally known as the “associated habitats.” Jerry Kenny, Executive Director PRRIP and Headwaters Corp. 308/237-5728 [email protected]

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