1/5/15 - State Wildlife Action Plan Being Updated

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1/5/15 - State Wildlife Action Plan Being Updated

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I was fortunate enough to be on the state's Executive Committee that made these recommended changes.  The old Plan was more than a little bit cumbersome which rendered it largely useless.  We decided rather than focus on the individual needs of more than 400 individual separate animal species to rather look at imperiled habitat types that make up the majority of where these threatened and endangered species or species of special concern live.  Certain habitats like early successional forest encompass large numbers of song birds and other animals for example.  Same for coldwater habitat like trout streams which harbor some endangered fish species but also provide aquatic insects critical to the survival of our disappearing bats, freshwater muscles, bald eagles that eat the trout and suckers, otters that do the same and so on.  Native eelgrass habitat was yet another type to focus effort on as are others.

 

Not only are all states required to update their plans, but the Plan itself needs to be user friendly so that the Division and Parks and Forestry as well as conservation organizations can better focus our efforts to improve habitat for imperiled species.  

Edited January 6, 2015 by Bucksnbows