Resources, Grants and Tools for Partners

Posted June 29th, 2010
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Announcements

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service launches Region 1 Partner Portal in the Conservation Registry
The portal tracks and maps the Cooperative Endangered Species Conservation Fund land acquisition projects in Region 1 states of Hawaii, Idaho, Oregon and Washington, as well as National Coastal Wetlands projects in Washington.

Western Hummingbird Partnership releases action plan, invites participation on committees
WHP is a developing network of partners collaborating to build a hummingbird conservation program.

• Read the new action plan: http://www.hummonnet.org/pdf/201006whp_actionplan.pdf
• Consider serving on committees associated with program sections: 1) Monitoring, 2) Research, 3) Habitat restoration/enhancement, and 4) Education/outreach. A fifth committee is needed to address the effects of changing climate on hummingbird communities and the distribution and availability of their nectar resources.
• More info: Susan Wethington

Funding

USFWS Challenge Cost Share—Pacific Northwest
Deadline: September 30, 2010
The Pacific Northwest Region invites the submission of proposals in support of natural resource management, emphasizing the inventory and control of invasive species, habitat restoration, conservation, outreach and environmental education. These proposals are accomplished in partnership with a USFWS field office such as a National Wildlife Refuge or a Partner for Fish & Wildlife office.

Land management and restoration

Institute for Applied Ecology announces the formation of the Estuary Technical Group
The Institute for Applied Ecology is a nonprofit corporation with a mission to conserve native species and habitats through restoration, research and education. The Estuary Technical Group (ETG) provides scientific decision support and on-the-ground resource management for estuarine restoration and conservation, with a focus on Pacific Northwest tidal wetlands.

Data tools and resources

New tools and updates from GAP (US Geological Survey Gap Analysis Program)
Gap Analysis gives land managers, planners, scientists, and policy makers the information they need to make better-informed decisions when identifying priority areas for conservation.

• The Protected Areas Database of the United States version 1.1(PAD-US 1.1) contains the most current information about publicly-held conservation lands in the US.
• GAP's national land cover viewer displays data on the vegetation and land use patterns of the continental United States. You can view this map and explore this data with GAP's online Land Cover Map Viewer.
• Northwest Regional Gap Analysis Project has completed an updated land cover map for Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana and Wyoming.

USFWS National Wetlands Inventory—new Web Map Services (WMS) now available

NOAA Coastal Services Center upgrades Digital Coast website
Updates include improved graphics, search functionality, and updated filters for narrowing content within pages. Other improvements include:

• Video tour of Digital Coast
• Coastal socio-economic data from Census and the Bureau of Economic Analysis
• Archive of "Recent Updates"
• More visible Digital Coast listserv sign-up.

USFWS launches two online scientific journals

• The Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management publishes original, high-quality, scientific papers on practical applications for conservation of fish, wildlife, plants, ecology, and land management in North America.
• North American Fauna began in 1889, and continued regularly through issue #76 in 1991. The Service is reviving this prestigious journal, which will publish monographs on an array of topics relating to North American vertebrates, invertebrates, and plants.

North American Shorebird Literature – 2009
This comprehensive bibliography was compiled by Brad Andres, National Coordinator of the U.S. Shorebird Conservation Plan.

Spanish version of "Saving Our Shared Birds: Partners in Flight Tri-national Vision for Landbird Conservation" is now available online

Conservation Biology journal offers three open-access, online issues
The journal publishes groundbreaking papers contributing to the science and practice of conserving biological diversity. In honor of the International Year of Biodiversity, three online issues are offered. Topics: Connectivity and Corridors, Climate Change, and Conservation Social Science.

Lasers Help Researchers Predict Birds' Preferred Habitat
A research team led by Scott Goetz of the Woods Hole Research Center in Falmouth, Mass., has helped bring habitat sensing into the 21st century. This study uses remote sensing to accurately predict which habitats birds prefer to use year after year, over many square miles of complex terrain.

Birds and energy development

Wind Turbine Interactions with Birds, Bats, and their Habitats: A Summary of Research Results and Priority Questions
This fact sheet, which is a product of the National Wind Coordinating Collaborative Wildlife Workgroup, summarizes what is known about bird and bat interactions with land-based wind power in North America, including habitat impacts, and what key questions and knowledge gaps remain.

Conferences

The Wildlife Society Annual Conference
October 2-6, 2010
Snowbird, Utah
Registration now open

Watchable Wildlife Conference 2010
October 5-7, 2010
Kearney, Nebraska

Restore America's Estuaries—5th National Conference on Coastal and Estuarine Habitat Restoration
November 13-17, 2010
Galveston Island, Texas
Registration now open

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