How Can Species be Protected in Your Watershed?

Historic Manistee!

Historic Manistee!

Historic Manistee!

Reading questions

What was interesting about the reading? Were you surprised about what species used to be here? What were the main factors responsible for population declines? Did the author’s forecast come true?

Endangered Species Act

What is its purpose?

How does it protect species?

Why is protecting a single species important?

What is mostly responsible for decline of species?

What species are most vulnerable?

Special Concern

Threatened

Endangered

Extirpated

Extinct

Why is “The List” Important?

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“The List”

Threatened, Endangered or Extirpated Species of the Big Manistee

River watershed.

Species Type Status

Bald Eagle Bird Threatened

Migrant Loggerhead Shrike Bird Endangered

King Rail Bird Endangered

Indiana Bat Mammal Endangered

Eastern Massasauga Reptile Threatened

Wood Turtle Reptile Endangered (Federal)

Pitcher’s Thistle Plant Threatened

Arctic Grayling Fish Extirpated

Lynx Mammal Extirpated

Wolf Mammal Extirpated

Elk Mammal Extirpated

Mammals

Fish

Reptiles

Plants

Birds

Unless???

Your GROUP Project

Answer five questions

Create species poster (in PowerPoint)

Give 5 minute presentation as biologists

Give details of your findings

1. What are specific habitat needs of your species?

2. What are the main threats to your species survival?

3. What is your species position in the food web? (ie: producer, specific level consumer, etc.)

4. If your species was removed how might it affect the other species within the web?

5. What actions could be taken or should be taken to ensure the survival of the species?

Big Manistee River Watershed

Michigan Grayling

Big Manistee River Watershed

High Gradient

Cool Temperatures

Long Migrational Corridors

Gravel for spawning, nursery habitat

Stream Cover