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Fish &Wildlife News U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Fall 2011 FishFish && WildlifeWildlife NewsNews SERVICE SPOTLIGHT CONSERVING THE FUTURE CONFERENCE Honor the Past, Plan for the Future / 6 Next Step: Implementation / 9 And more... what’s inside Departments From the Director / 1 News / 2 Around the Service / 20 Fish Tales / 26 Our People / 28 Features SERVICE SPOTLIGHT Honor the Past, Plan for the Future / 6 Conserving the Future conference engages thousands in Madison and far beyond by MARTHA NUDEL And more... Preserving Beauty in the Deep / 16 The search for Hawaiian coral reef management options in a changing climate by DEANNA SPOONER FIELD JOURNAL editors’ note: Publication of this edition A Girl and a Wolf Pack / 18 of Fish & Wildlife News was delayed What I learned from spending a day in order to include coverage of the with the wolves national Wildlife refuge system’s Vision Conference. by ROYA MOGADAM On the cover: Fall cypress trees in Noxubee National Wildlife Refuge in Mississippi. FLICKR / CREATIVE COMMONS LICENSE / FRANK PETERS from the director Relevant, Resilient and Relentlessly Focused: The Future of the Service hroughout its history, the Fish and Wildlife Service shared science capacities with our partners in a Thas been successful because it has been relevant, national network of Landscape Conservation resilient and relentlessly focused on the resource. Cooperatives. Through two world wars, the Great Depression and the transformation of American society in the postwar This vision will be reflected in our budget, in the work years, we have continually remade our agency to we do and in our training programs. You will hear respond to changing conservation challenges. more in the coming months about how we are beginning to take a strategic approach to the Service Now, the global challenges we face, as well as the budget, linking funding decisions to explicit biological current economic climate in which we operate, outcomes, and identifying representative species that demand that we again reinvent our organization to we believe will be the best indicators of these realize the vision I strongly believe we all share for outcomes. the Fish and Wildlife Service — to become an increasingly effective, relevant, science-driven The Conserving the Future document, which organization that will accomplish the Service’s mission Secretary Salazar and I signed at Pelican Island a few as never before. weeks ago, envisions a refuge system transformed by these principles. The vision it sets forth, which you When I speak about making our organization can read about in this issue, will help us create an relevant, I mean several things. First, we need to increasingly relevant, resilient and focused refuge recognize that America is changing — becoming more system. urban, more diverse, and less physically connected to the outdoors. As a result, it is increasingly difficult Secretary Salazar shares our vision and is challenging for many Americans to understand why conservation us to breathe new life and vision into landscape is relevant to their lives. They need to feel that what conservation. He knows, as do we, that our best work we do affects them personally — whether it’s by often occurs where the Service is the catalyst for providing recreational opportunities, or by conservation work on a broader scale than we could demonstrating the connection between healthy accomplish working individually. Projects like the wildlife habitat and a healthy economy. Dakota Grasslands and Flint Hills Legacy Conservation Areas, and the proposed new Relevancy is also tied to our efforts to make the Everglades Headwaters National Wildlife Refuge and Service, and its culture, more inclusive and diverse. Conservation Area are the centerpieces of the We must change with America by bringing new voices Secretary’s vision for America’s Great Outdoors, and and ideas into the agency and finding new ways to its emphasis on partnership-driven conservation. reach out to nontraditional audiences. The largest barrier to this transformation is our own We must increase our focus on resources by setting past success. Many will point to this success and ask, clear biological priorities and pursuing them “Why do we need to change?” We must change relentlessly, by putting our resources where the because America itself is changing. As Rachel Carson science tells us they will do the most good. We must once wrote, “Like the resource it seeks to protect, have the greatest impact possible — which requires wildlife conservation must be dynamic, changing as us to leverage our resources and work with state conditions change, seeking always to become more agencies and other key partners. effective.” We must continue to develop and employ the Service’s And I’ll end with one more quote, this one from science capacity, making resource management Mother Teresa: “Life is a challenge. Meet it.” I decisions driven by the best available scientific intend to, and if history is any window to the future, information. In order to accomplish that, we will so will the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. invest in the expertise of our employees and build Fall 2011 Fish & Wildlife News / 1 news Catalyzing Bird Conservation: The Neotropical Migratory Bird Conservation Act arlier this year, the Service enforcement and community Results of the U.S.-Mexico With the most recent grant, Eawarded more than $4.3 million outreach and education. By law, Grasslands partnership include: partners will conduct grassland in grants for projects supporting at least 75 percent of the money bird research and monitoring in neotropical migratory bird goes to projects in Latin America, n Long-term wintering bird Mexico to inform conservation conservation throughout the the Caribbean and Canada, while research and monitoring to and management of high-priority Western Hemisphere, funded the remaining 25 percent goes develop the first population wintering grassland bird species. under the Neotropical Migratory to projects in the United States. baseline for birds in regional They also will conduct training in Bird Conservation Act. Chihuahuan grasslands. Mexico to build local capacity for Among the projects that grassland bird conservation and Matched by more than $15.1 received fiscal year 2011 grants n Community outreach, including in Colorado to educate students million in additional funds from is the U.S.-Mexico Grasslands demonstration grazing projects and teachers about grassland partners, the projects will Conservation Project, the longest- and workshops, to train biologists birds and habitat. support habitat restoration, running Act-funded initiative. and give livestock producers, environmental education, This partnership has leveraged range managers and population monitoring and other more than $2.1 million in grants conservationists the tools they WS activities within the ranges of with nearly $7 million in partner need to enhance habitat for USF neotropical migratory birds in matches to support habitat grassland birds. the United States, Canada, protection and bird population Mexico and 13 Latin American recovery efforts on tens of n New public-private alliances and Caribbean countries. thousands of acres from the that focus on grasslands Rocky Mountain Front to the conservation research and Neotropical migratory birds Chihuahua desert. monitoring and growing the breed in Canada and the United conservation capacity of States during summer and spend partners. the winter in Mexico, Central America, South America or the (Below) the neotropical act grant helps to conserve the southern cone region’s Caribbean islands. The more grasslands. (Right) Brewers sparrows are among the more than 300 bird species that than 340 species of neotropical benefit from grants made through the Act. migratory birds include plovers, terns, hawks, cranes, warblers and sparrows. The populations of NTERNATIONAL many of these birds are presently I in decline, and several species are currently protected as threatened or endangered under the Endangered Species Act. / BIRDLIFE AL PARERA B NI A The Neotropical Migratory Bird Conservation Act of 2000 — or Neotrop Act — established a matching grants program to fund projects promoting neotropical migratory bird conservation in the United States, Canada, Latin America and the Caribbean. Funds may be used to protect, research, monitor and manage bird populations and habitat, as well as to conduct law 2 / Fish & Wildlife News Fall 2011 news American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Funds Successfully Another long-running and Obligated by the Service successful Neotrop Act-funded project is the Southern Cone Grasslands Alliance, which has united farmers, researchers, conservationists, rural and urban residents, and government agencies to conserve critical and increasingly threatened grassland habitat in South America. (Left): Willapa NWR YCC crew members dig a hole for a new art installation on the Salmon Trail at Refuge Headquarters. (Middle): More than $633,000 in Neotrop New energy efficient administrative and visitor center for the Eastern Massachusetts NWR Complex at the Assabet River refuge in Act funding and $2.6 million in Sudbury, Mass. (Right): The Service is using American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 funds to construct and install tornado partner contributions have shelters at refuges in the Mountain-Prairie Region. supported this large-scale, multi- national initiative. Partnership accomplishments include: he U.S. Fish and Wildlife entities. The projects include “We look forward to continued T Service
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