Integrating Bird Conservation Strategies into
Integrated Natural Resources Management Plans
For the current INRMP Handbook, visit the "Planning
Tools, Handbooks, and Guidelines" page on the DENIX
web site
1. Review the information on the
Comprehensive
State Wildlife Conservation Strategies web site. These strategies, also
known as wildlife action plans, guide each state to do proactive
planning for wildlife conservation. The web site contains state-by-state
contact information, guiding principles, required elements of the plans, and
links to each state's wildlife action plan. Establish a partnership with
your appropriate state contact. The state agency approves your installation
INRMP, so incorporating state action plan priorities in your INRMP will help
build cooperative conservation efforts.
2. Review the Partners in Flight Bird Conservation Plan that covers your installation. To
identify the physographic region in which you are located and download the
PIF plan, see the map of PIF Physiographic
Areas. Download the current plan for your region or state from the PIF
web site, or contact your
PIF
Regional Working Group Chair for a hard copy. The PIF web site has
species and habitat tables and maps for all regions, and will soon have all
plans available for download. Support the goals and objectives promoted in
this plan.
3. Compile a species prioritization list for your installation using the Partners in
Flight database at the Rocky
Mountain Bird Observatory. Also incorporate the list of
Species of Concern for your installation.
4. Incorporate the concept of Bird Conservation Areas (BCA) into your INRMP where
possible. BCAs are large areas that sustain or are capable of sustaining healthy
populations of birds. They may include multiple cooperating landowners who voluntarily
coordinate their management practices to provide a constant base of habitat needed by
birds.
5. Coordinate bird management recommendations and activities with the following national
and international bird conservation initiatives:
North American Waterfowl Management Plan
Division of Bird Habitat Conservation
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
4401 North Fairfax Drive, Mailstop 4075
Arlington VA 22203
email: dbhc@fws.gov
http://northamerican.fws.gov/nawmphp.html
U.S. National Shorebird Plan
Brad Andres, National Coordinator
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
PO Box 25486, DFC
Denver, CO 80225
email: brad_andres@fws.gov
http://shorebirdplan.fws.gov
North American Waterbird Conservation Plan
Jennifer Wheeler, National Coordinator
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
4401 North Fairfax Drive
Arlington VA 22203
email:
Jennifer_A_Wheeler@fws.gov
http://www.waterbirdconservation.org
6. Promote and participate in International Migratory Bird Day
(IMBD). Consider hosting an
IMBD event at your installation, and invite the local community. Announce
and register your event
through the IMBD web site (click
on Events Registry).
7. Implement avian monitoring programs. Following to the goals of the PIF Landbird Monitoring Strategy
will
facilitate incorporation of monitoring data into larger regional and national analyses.
Although funding of new Monitoring Avian Productivity and Survivorship (MAPS) stations is
no longer being provided through the Legacy Resources Management Program, new MAPS
stations are encouraged. MAPS provides more sophisticated data than simple point counts,
but required more effort and resources. Monitoring programs are useful in providing
single-season baseline population data, but are more useful if conducted annually to
provide population trend data.
8. Promote Information and Education programs focusing on migratory birds. Distribute the
DoD PIF brochure at meetings and conferences, and when giving talks to groups. Use the DoD
PIF logo
whenever appropriate.
DoD PIF Logos:
9. Check the DoD PIF web site frequently. This site will be updated with current
information about DoD PIF, the bird conservation planning process, and each
technical and regional working group. Submit information about activities
and projects at your installation in the
DoD Bird Conservation Database.
