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habitat-based management strategies. Program representatives assist installation natural resources managers in improving the monitoring and inventory, research and manage- ment, and education programs involving birds and their habitats. Te DOD PIF Strategic Plan identifes actions that support and enhance the military mission while also working to secure bird populations. Tese actions can be incorporated into installation Integrated Natural Resources Management Plans and Bird/Animal Aircraft Strike Hazard (BASH) plans. DOD PIF works beyond installation boundaries to facilitate cooperative partner- ships, determine the current status of bird populations, and prevent the listing of addi- tional birds as threatened or endangered. DOD PIF.
Conserving Shorebirds on DOD Lands http://DODpif.org/publications/shorebird-guidebook.php
For managers seeking to focus on a particular type of wetland and/or a particular species of shorebird, it is essential to know when management opportunities can be scheduled to properly coincide with targeted bird migration schedules. Tis booklet identifes important shorebird management opportunities by providing: (1) information on migration timing of various ‘habitat guilds’ and (2) information on the relative abundance of diferent species of shorebirds in diferent regions of the country during spring and autumn migrations.
Kirtland’s Warbler Recovery Team http://DODpif.org/kiwa/about.php
Te team represents the three managing agencies [Michigan Department of Natural Resources, USFS, and USFWS] involved in the recovery activities for the species. Te work of the Kirtland’s Warbler Recovery Team over the last 25 years successfully brought an endangered species back from the brink of extinction despite impossible odds. Te part- nerships, techniques and process are available through an inventory of information con- taining nearly 1,400 items, including articles, book chapters, cooperative agreements, cor- respondence, interviews, meeting minutes, maps, outreach, photos, policy, press releases, recovery and habitat management plans, reports, papers, sighting and banding records, theses and dissertations. Also contains an Access Database of all materials.
DOD Partners in Amphibian and Reptile Conservation (DOD PARC) http://www.DODnaturalresources.net/DOD-PARC.html
A network through which the DOD can work to avoid future mission restrictions while providing stewardship for threatened and endangered herpetofauna. DOD PARC focuses
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2015 NC Wildlife Action Plan
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