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Next Steps for a Healthy Gulf of Mexico Watershed U.S U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Overview Next Steps for a Healthy Gulf of Mexico Watershed U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service staff representing all 31 states in the Gulf Introduction watershed, the Service has long provided The greater Gulf of Mexico ecosystem a combination of planning and on-the- contains a variety of habitats that support ground contributions to natural resource an amazing range of wildlife and provides protection and conservation. Americans with abundant seafood, valuable energy resources, extraordinary Countless stressors have been altering outdoor recreational activities, and a rich and degrading the Gulf ecosystem cultural heritage. for decades. The degradation of this monumentally important watershed was The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service made even worse after the Deepwater The Gulf watershed is home (Service) has a deep and enduring Horizon oil spill in 2010. The Service commitment to the Gulf watershed. For developed and released its “Vision for to more than 500 federally example, starting with the establishment a Healthy Gulf of Mexico Watershed” of Breton Island National Wildlife Refuge (Vision) in 2013 in response to the listed species, of which more in 1904, the Service has been managing restoration challenges facing the Gulf than 350 are endangered. 45 national wildlife refuges along the Gulf following the Deepwater Horizon Coast and an additional 190 in the rest disaster. Vision set the stage for a of the Gulf watershed for years. These restoration approach that considers not make up a Service-managed conservation only the Gulf Coast, but also the entire landscape of many million acres, with watershed that feeds the Gulf. The 2.15 million acres located along the Service’s “Next Steps for a Healthy Gulf Gulf Coast alone. The Service also has of Mexico Watershed” (Next Steps) is important responsibilities defined by the companion document to our Vision. legislation, treaty or similar authority Next Steps grows out of and refines for endangered and threatened species, themes and action items raised in the as well as for migratory birds, certain Vision. It reflects our commitment to marine mammals, and fish species that taking action in a deliberate way that move across boundaries of states and Many bird species call Breton Island home; builds upon existing and ongoing efforts credit: USFWS/Greg Thompson nations (“interjurisdictional fish”). With (e.g., Southeastern Aquatic Resources 2 U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Partnership (SARP), Migratory Bird additions to the earlier document, such Joint Ventures and others). It is intended as two new focal areas in Florida. The 18 to put on paper the perspectives, focal areas in Next Steps are: priorities and preferred courses of action held by the Service and partners for n Laguna Madre and Lower Rio Grande the restoration of the Gulf watershed Valley; and is founded on the key principles of n Coastal Bend; leveraging the power of partnerships and utilizing the best available science. n Texas Mid-Coast; n Chenier Plain; Gulf restoration received a significant boost on April 4, 2016, through a n Atchafalaya Basin; global legal settlement with BP and its subsidiaries, the parties primarily n Mississippi River Coastal Wetlands responsible for the Deepwater Horizon and Barrier Islands; oil spill. The settlement adds $20.8 billion n Mississippi Alluvial Valley; to state and federal efforts over the next two decades to rehabilitate and improve n Central Gulf Lands; the natural resources of the Gulf region. The Service believes the unprecedented n Central Gulf and Florida Panhandle amount of funding and the enormity Coast; of the challenge requires a level of n Florida Panhandle Lands; collaboration and coordination never before seen in an ecosystem restoration n Greater Apalachicola Basin; effort. By pooling our financial and human resources, expertise and experiences, we n Florida’s Big Bend; can find efficiencies, avoid duplication of n Tampa Bay (new); efforts, meet larger landscape-scale goals and maximize outcomes. This is the time n Southwest Florida; to build upon existing efforts to address ongoing needs, reassess conservation and n Florida Keys (new); restoration needs, and generate fresh n Upper Mississippi River Watershed; ideas and innovative approaches for long- term restoration. n Rainwater Basin; and n Prairie Potholes. Focal Areas While focal areas are useful in continuing In the Vision, the Service articulated discussions with partners, the Service is overarching restoration and conservation transitioning to the use of more distinctly strategies for sustaining fish and wildlife delineated Biological Planning Units resources and thriving communities for in reference to restoration of the Gulf future generations. The Service also watershed. This is because explicit and identified geographically based high- quantitative biological objectives are priority focal areas and actions to help essential for making more strategic Young angler with her catch of the day; align the efforts of the Service with its credit: Robert Smith investments; likewise, clear geographic partners and other stakeholders. Vision boundaries are essential for calculating introduced 16 focal areas, sections of the these objectives. A team composed of Gulf watershed with indistinct boundaries individuals from across the Service in which the Service has a particular worked in concert with experts in interest with respect to Gulf restoration. Landscape Conservation Cooperatives Among the factors we considered in (LCCs), Migratory Bird Joint Ventures, choosing these focal areas were unique Fish Habitat Partnerships (e.g., SARP) ecological features, regional conditions and the U.S. Geological Survey in and trends, the Service’s and our describing both objectives and boundaries partners’ existing conservation and/or through the Biological Objectives Project restoration plans and collaborative efforts. in the Gulf states. All of our partners, Next Steps highlights more specific including state fish and wildlife agencies, courses of action for the development have influenced these efforts. Working and implementation of conservation from ongoing collaborative processes, and restoration initiatives in each of the the Biological Planning Unit boundaries original focal areas. It also reflects the rely upon lines already in use by these evolving Gulf conservation landscape by partners and others in planning efforts updating and including refinements and across the Gulf. 3 U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service The Service’s Biological Planning Units are derived from partners’ existing planning Target Species boundaries. In Next Steps, the Service discusses target species for each focal area (i.e., migratory birds, species listed as threatened and endangered under the Endangered Species Act, interjurisdictional fish, and certain marine mammals). These are species on which the Service is currently concentrating its science and on-the- ground restoration efforts due to their vulnerability and/or ability to act as indicators of improved habitat conditions on the landscape. These species were identified by collating the plans and priorities of a wide range of partners within each focal area. In the Gulf states, most of the species highlighted are based on the Biological Planning Units, but target species in the upper watershed were derived from other collaborative Kemp’s Ridley; credit: USFWS/Adrienne McCracken planning processes. The Service believes that by identifying target species and biological objectives, it can more clearly connect restoration actions with desired outcomes on the landscape or in the watershed and also will benefit other species. Similarly, while these species are the focus of current Whooping crane; efforts and immediate next steps, there credit: USFWS/Diane Nunley 4 U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service may be other species with conservation There is no need to reinvent the wheel. needs as issues evolve, landscape changes Many of the recommended actions occur and knowledge increases. The resemble or reinforce recommendations Service’s fundamental approach to from other efforts, initiatives or plans. Gulf restoration includes crosscutting These include Migratory Bird Joint awareness of collateral benefits, and Venture strategies, state-based Gulf strives to find restoration actions that restoration plans (e.g., the Louisiana will help a wide range of species. For Coastal Master Plan), State Wildlife example, by promoting the conservation Action Plans, Comprehensive The Gulf watershed is home of freshwater inflow into coastal wetlands Conservation Plans for National of the Coastal Bend Focal Area to Wildlife Refuges, National Estuary to some of America’s beloved benefit endangered whooping cranes, Program Comprehensive Conservation and iconic species — from we highlight recommended actions that and Management Plans, and the will provide habitat for commercial and Deepwater Horizon NRDAR Trustees’ the West Indian manatee, recreational species important to our Programmatic Damage Assessment partners such as the blue crab, red drum and Restoration Plan/Programmatic an aquatic relative of the and speckled trout. Environmental Impact Statement to elephant, to the whooping name a few. Each of these efforts has Next Steps (Recommended Actions) specific planning processes, stakeholder crane, North America’s The recommended actions for each engagement and implementing features focal area in Next Steps represent the that will determine lead agencies tallest bird. Service’s efforts to date to pull together
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