ON THE HORIZON: February 2018, Issue 10
Posted by WAFWA on February 1, 2018
![]() “The management of CWD in our free-ranging deer and elk populations will require a coordinated approach from agencies so we can all learn from each other what is effective and what is not,” said Bob Broscheid, Colorado Parks and Wildlife Director, who is the director sponsor of WAFWA’s Mule Deer Working Group. “For agencies that would like to experiment with different population management options to slow or stop the spread of CWD, this document provides a template that will allow us to learn together in a coordinated way.” ![]() “Everyone at the table during the meeting shares the same goals of improving habitat and ultimately increasing populations of the lesser prairie-chicken across its range,” said J.D. Strong, Director of the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation and Chairman of the Lesser Prairie-Chicken Initiative Council. “Now comes the real work of executing our action items, and I am confident that we can make a real difference for long-term health of the prairie chicken population and the working landscape where it lives.” ![]() ![]() The Sage Grouse Initiative, led by the Natural Resources Conservation Service, has released the newest component of the SGI Interactive Web App, called the Songbird Abundance layer. These custom maps represent the predicted abundance of nine species of sagebrush- and woodland-obligate songbirds within the U.S. distribution of sagebrush-steppe ecosystems. The new songbird abundance maps aim to bolster multi-species conservation across the American West. The innovative new songbird mapping tool — created by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Habitat and Population Evaluation Team with the support of WAFWA’s Sagebrush Science Initiative — will help partners target conservation practices to benefit declining songbird populations. |
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