JFK/LGA MEETING SUMMARY NOTES - November 20, 2013

JFK_LGA Wildlife Hazard Task Force Meeting Summary notes 11/20/13

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JFK-LGA Wildlife Hazard Task Force Meeting

John F. Kennedy International Airport, Building 14

November 20, 2013 (10am to 2pm)

Committee Chair: Christopher A. Nadareski (DEP)

Notes: DEP and USDA

10:10 Introductions

10:15 Review of Minutes from March 13, 2013 Meeting (Hand-out for review)

Correct spelling for Laura’s Name

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Minutes approved

10:20 Port Authority (L. Francoeur) - 2013 JFK, LGA, EWR Program Plans and Wildlife Strike

Trends

On-airport damaging strike trends at JFK (January – October 2013): 0.12 compared to 0.13 from

2012. Many more strikes than damaging strikes.

o January 2014: Boeing 767 engine strike, Western Sandpiper (13 carcasses) aircraft taken

out of service.

o January 2014: European Starling strike at 300’ with A320. Aircraft made precautionary

landing and switched aircrafts.

o January 2014: Strike with 14 Horned Larks ingested into Boeing 767 engine; engine

boroscoped.

o A323 struck starlings.

o October 2013: Strike with Canada Geese at 100’ but not sure how many with Boeing

757. Pilot reported seeing a flock of 20-30 geese. Damage to left wing fuel dump nozzle

and engine compressors stages 1-12. Strike at 300 feet is near the airport border?

Off-airport damaging strikes:

o January: Great Black-backed Gull strike at 600 feet. Aircraft made precautionary

landing.

o February: Great Black-backed Gull at 500 feet. Damage to nose wheel assembly and

second strike with Mallard.

Summary:

o Gull strike rate. Started in 1979 with JKF wildlife strike database began. In 2012 it was

the lowest for all gulls combined.

o Striking more raptors than gulls in present day.

o Strikes in 2013 were as follows: 10 Herring Gulls, 9 Barn Swallows, 8 DBTE, 7 Horned

Lark, 5 Mourning Dove, 5 Osprey, 5 Rock Dove, 4 American Robin.

Depredations

o Numbers down in 2013 possibly due to Hurricane Sandy with reduction of gulls

depredated. Height of activity is from May to September. Total 4,341 animals

depredated at JFKIA (below average). Hurricane Sandy may have played a role with the

rabbit depredations; Cottontails and Jackrabbits. Largest number of birds is blackbirds

(starlings, etc.)


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2,262 gulls depredated (below average)

Birds: 450 European Starlings, 390 Brown-headed Cowbirds, 510 Mourning

Doves, 150 Atlantic Brant, and 60 Canada Geese

Mammals: 5 Black-tailed Jackrabbits, 5 Eastern Cottontails, 2 Opossums, 1

Norway Rat, 1 Muskrat

Future Plans

o Terrapin deterrent installation – 90% completed

o Barn Swallow nest removals – completed

o Summer terrapin intern – completed

o Mute Swan, Canada Goose nest and egg removal off-airport – completed

o Off-airport Canada Goose capture and removal – completed

o Trapping of birds: Rock Dove, European Starling, House Sparrow, and Mourning Dove

trapping – completed

o Volacom testing is postponed. Auditory deterrent equipment proposed for JFK and LGA

– company take-over.

o Research rabbits – necropsy, age size difference research with National Wildlife

Research Center (NWRC)

o Laughing Gull nest survey – NWRC – reproductive status of gulls depredated. Results

by next meeting.

o Significant vegetation removal/trimming, east of runways 4L and 4R, Thurston Basin,

Bergin Basin – completed

o Eliminated gaps in FAA buildings (electrical) to prevent European Starling and Atlantic

Brant loafing – completed

o Shooting and Airfield monitoring program - completed

o Laughing Gull ground truth survey completed in 2013.

o FAA shacks – will require European Starling management

o Breakup of turf grass for Atlantic Brant and Canada Goose management near building 14

and near Airtram, exit off the VanWyck Expressway, Federal Circle, North Boundary

Road (removed fruiting tree species and replaced with others)

10:45 Port Authority (Jeff Kolodzinski) - 2013 LGA Program Plans and Wildlife Strike Trends

On-airport Damaging Strikes at LGA (January – October)

o Only 3 damaging strikes in 2013.

American Kestrel strike caused a precautionary landing. Aircraft was taken out

of service. No damage.

White-headed Gull? (Smithsonian unable to identify exact species). Small dent

on aircraft wing.

Off-airport Damaging Strikes

o October – Multiple Double-crested Cormorant engine ingestion at 400 feet. Severe

engine damage

o Hermit Thrush – aircraft taken out of service for 60 hours and no damage reported

Summary

o 158 bird strikes on-airport compared to163 in 2012


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o Gulls (9); White-throated Sparrows (8), American Kestrels (7); Canada Geese (2) did not

cause damage, Yellow-rumped Warbler (5), Red-eyed Vireo (5), Ruby-throated

Hummingbird (2- first time), Song Sparrow (5)

o Off –airport 55 strikes versus 66 in 2012. 3 damaging compared to 2 in 2012. One for

gulls

LGA Bird depredations: Down from 5-year average in 2013 might be due to Hurricane Sandy.

o January 1, 2013 through October 31, 2013

Ring-billed Gulls 143

Herring Gulls 136

Mourning Doves 68

Rock Doves 57

Atlantic Brant 53

Canada Geese 50

Double-crested Cormorants 34

European Starlings 28

Bird Harassment data 2013

o 24,534 harassments; 761 depredations; 97% non-lethal control

2013 Plan

o New USDA biologist trained (Erica Santana) - completed

o Wildlife Hazard Management Plan review – completed. DEP (C. Nadareski requested

new version early in 2014)

o LGA Redevelopment – redesign of parking garages – in progress

o Volacom test - postponed

o Canada Goose and Mute Swan egg and nest treatments (off-airport) – completed

o NYC Canada Goose capture and removal - completed

o Barn Swallow removal - completed

o Rock Dove & European Starling trapping - completed

Newark International Airport (EWR)/NJ update

o Canada Goose egg and nest treatments at JY/NJ Marine Terminals

o Canada Goose management in New Jersey and Staten Island

o No CAGO strikes

10:55 United States Department of Agriculture – 2013 JFK USDA Management by Jennifer

Mastantuono

Canada Goose and Mute Swan egg and nest treatments at off-airport properties

o Gateway – Canada Geese: 4 nests/16 eggs

o Baisley Pond Park – Canada Geese 0 nests/0 eggs; Mute Swan 1 nest/6 eggs

o Milburn Pond Park – Canada Geese 9 nests/37 eggs

o North Woodmere – Canada Geese 0 nests/0 eggs

o No nests found near LGA

Laughing Gull nest count

o Occurred on June 14, 2013

o Aerial flyover was next day

o Results pending; gov’t shutdown delays


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Gull Management Program (May 1 to October 31, 2013)

o 2 stations Monday through Friday, alternating morning and afternoon. One station on

Saturday morning and Sunday afternoon.

o Researching shooting program on weekends.

o Presence of birds and numbers of bird removed was low.

o Hurricane Sandy depredation-related reductions. 118 Atlantic Brant, 79 Double-crested

Cormorants, 1 Mute Swan, 9 Mallards

o Added Common Grackle, Boat-tailed Grackle, American Crow, and Fish Crow due to

amount of presence from previous year.

Air-field Monitoring Management Program May 1, 2013 to October 31, 2013 – year-around

monitoring continues.

o 2 trucks operated on field on 2 shifts/day (dawn to dusk), 7 days/week

o 2,107 individuals removed by USDA only

o 15,067 harassed off airfield by USDA only

o European Starling, American Oystercatcher, and Killdeer nest removals

o Rock Dove and Blackbird trapping

o Depredations

Species with increasing presence

o Grackles (boat-tailed)

o Crows (American Crow and Fish Crow)

o Great and Snowy Egrets (1 egret strike in 2013)

Spotlight surveys

o 4 Black-tailed Jackrabbits, 1 rodent, 2 raccoons, 1 Short-eared Owl, 6 Killdeer (check

with Jeff on species and numbers)

Increased observations of adult and juvenile Bald Eagles on LGA and on Riker’s Island in 2013

Martin Lowney (USDA) – USFWS may be revising depredation permits

11:05 2013 NYC Goose Management – DEP/PA Contract CRO-523 (Martin Lowney, USDA)

Objective: Improve aircraft safety for JFK, LGA and EWR stemming from Flight 1549

Goal: Manage resident Canada Geese within 5 miles of airports increased to 7-mile management

around airports in 2010 to reduce bird strike risk.

Overview:

o 5th year of roundups

o NYC owned properties within 7-miles of airport were surveyed for Canada Geese

o Included Jamaica Bay National Wildlife Refuge due to close proximity to JFK – not

included in DEP Contract CRO-523

o Captured Canada Geese are processed by a New York State inspected facility and

donated to Northeast Food Bank. According to the NY Times there is 70% public

support for the goose management program.

2013 Summary

o 57 properties surveyed

o 11 properties were targeted for round-ups of Canada Geese

o 543 Canada Geese removed

281 Canada Geese removed from NYC (parks) through DEP contract CRO-523


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262 Canada Geese removed from Jamaica Bay

9 Canada Geese had identification bands

A total of 400 lbs. of meat was donated to food banks

Issues

o Geese are local - banding

o 95% of marked Canada Geese stayed within 7-miles from molt location

o 72% of marked Canada Geese stayed within 0-7 miles of the airport

o 28% of marked Canada Geese were found at distances greater than 7 miles from the

airport

o Other issues why there is a need to manage Canada Geese – collateral costs/management

issues

Salt marsh restoration projects – appears to be an increase of Canada Geese and

Atlantic Brant feeding on salt marshes. Approximately 1/3 of the cost of NYC

salt marsh restoration goes towards Canada Goose exclusion.

Exclusion devices

o Issue – Following Canada Geese removals then others will fill void.

Pelham

Since 2009 252 Canada Geese removed (check with Martin Lowney on

data)

o How many geese in NYC?

Begin with NYC-owned lands to answer question

Begin first part survey to begin December 2013

o DEP (C. Nadareski) question: Consider development of

methodology with DEP, DPR, PA with USDA

Port Authority (L. Francoeur) – Suggested obtaining a maximum and

minimum number of Canada Geese seasonally

American Littoral Society (D. Riepe) – where are food banks located?

o Number of Canada Geese on NYC Properties has declined which has resulted in a lower

number of strikes and overall decreased risk to aircraft.

o LaGuardia Canada Geese aircraft strikes down 75%

10:20 Riker’s Island bird management (Erica Santana, USDA)

Currently 9 months in position

Gull management

o Gulls (Herring, Great Black-backed, Ring-billed and Laughing) and Canada Goose most

present and primary species of concern

Herring and Great Black-backed Gulls are most significant hazard due to

breeding on island. Majority are Herring Gulls. Riker’s 1 of 7 off-airport sites

for LGA.

o LGA (RWY22) is 265 feet from Riker’s shoreline

o LGA gulls strikes – mostly Herring Gulls

Downward trend at LGA from 2006 to 2013 – majority of strikes are from

Herring Gulls

o Reproductive Depredation includes Herring and Great Black-backed Gull egg addling.


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Egg depredation 2009 to 2013

Goal to discourage breeding

Increased vigilance

o Reduce colony

o Discourage breeding with a negative reproductive experience, encouraging colony

relocation?? (Check with Erica on this statement)

2013 field season

o Treated a total of 667 nests 1,510 eggs (mostly Herring Gulls). Gull nest preference on

gravel rooftops.

Punctured versus oiling – switched in 2013

Chicks removed

All ten jail complexes treated

o Decrease in number of Gull strikes at LGA possibly due to management (data analysis

ongoing) and actions from airport operations staff on airfield.

o Increase yearly

Access to facilities for gull management has increased

Population increase?

DEP question: 100% treatment? – Erica yes 100%

Don R. – green roof ideas

o Comparing efforts of various locations through the years

Stone substrate/gravel rooftops seemed to be preferred for gull nesting

DEP (C. Nadareski) question: survey schedule – Erica 2 times/season

o Question/comment DEP (C. Nadareski) – early 2000 North Shore Marine Transfer

Station plant closed and gulls strikes at LGA seems to have increased

o USDA (Martin Lowney) question – egg oiling and strikes at LGA for Ring-billed Gulls

o Damaging gull strikes

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Summary:

o Herring Gulls are most significant gull hazard

o Reproductive depredation – data are inconclusive

o Decrease in gull strikes

o 2014 critical year –

o Trash Management/transfer facility on Riker’s

Exclusion options

Comment by DOC (P. Feeney) – please notify department when observations of

bird feeding are conducted

Trash locations do attract large gull feeding

o Comment by FAA (E. Martinez) – Riker’s Management Plan development

o Question by DEP (C. Nadareski) – requested data from USDA on observations conducted

on Riker’s Island for review

o Lethal removal

Comment by DOC (P. Feeney) – cannot occur on Riker’s


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Capture/euthanize – will continue with geese and gulls

o Continue reproductive suppression

o Research Potential

Site fidelity

Dispersal/migration

Local movements

Reproductive suppression techniques

11:50 NYC Department of Corrections update on Riker’s Island contract (Patricia Feeney)

Submitted contract to management

o Question – legal department should PA pay for Riker’s management activities?

o Cas Holloway (Deputy Mayor) said yes but will wait until new mayor makes decision

o Port Authority (L. Francoeur) – suggest to bring to NYC Steering Committee discussions

with new administration in late winter or early spring 2014

o DEP (C. Nadareski) – New 2-year contract being reviewed for CRO-523 which will

include Riker’s Island.

*Reiterate need for USDA to speak to DOC routinely about bird management issues

12:00 – 12:35 Meeting Adjourned for Lunch

12:25 Lowney USDA – Bird Management at Fountain and Pennsylvania Landfill Summary

Goal:

o Measure bird abundance and species to determine if there is a risk to aviation

Preliminary findings:

o Bird surveys

Population trend downwards

Habitat change

Harassment activities

1,004,812 birds surveyed from July 2007 to January 2013.

80% birds along shoreline, 2.5% on landfill, and the rest on roads and structures

Atlantic Brant most numerous 41%

Scaup Spp. 34%

Herring Gulls 7%

Laughing Gulls 6%

Canada Geese 3%

Ring-billed Gulls?

Most common Raptors – Northern Harrier, American Kestrel, Osprey, Red-tailed

Hawk, Peregrine Falcon, Cooper’s Hawk, and Merlin

o Bird hazing

Protocol: Harass if birds on landfill but if in the water leave alone

Methods:

Car honk 46%

Vehicle present 29%


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Paintball 11%

Clapping/Yelling 8%

Chasing on foot 4%

Rest includes dog chasing, pyrotechnics, effigies

Successful Harassment is measured if the bird flies off the landfill and continues

to fly or land in surrounding Bay

Maturing of habitat – may be largely responsible for hazing reductions over time.

Avian Guilds

# birds hazed – waterfowl and Canada Geese

Blackbirds – starlings

Gulls – mostly flyovers from Bay

About 350,000 hazed at the two landfills from 2007 to 2013

Caught 250 Canada Geese off landfills with culling contract (CRO-523) over the

years

Birds are primarily loafing, some foraging on landfill slopes and roadways.

Habitat types birds using: 48% on landfill slope

o Small Mammal Surveys

Trees dying due primarily meadow voles (about 90% of trees planted were

impacted by voles)

Vole declines in early February – rodenticide applications

Voles may not have attracted any important raptor populations

o Suggest continue monitoring site over the years

o Small Mammal Population Management

Summary: Long-term habitat maturation resulted in the reduction in bird abundance. No longer a

concern at this time to aviation. Continuation of monitoring recommended.

1:00pm USDA/DSNY – Update on Bird Management Activities at North Shore Marine Waste

Transfer Station (Stephan Beffre, USDA)

Status of plant – nearly completed. Currently testing electrical equipment. By Fall 2014 should

be fully operational

Avian Monitoring – 3 point count surveys/week at dawn, midday, and dusk with 5-off-site

properties

o Old flushing airport

o Strip mall

o Home Depot? (Check with Stephan)

o World’s Fair Marina

o City field

o Birds observed for last 6 months

Doves

Starling

Passerines

Gulls

Waterfowl/cormorants

o North Shore Facility has lowest population of all sites surveyed


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Integrated Hazard Management Plan was completed for operational phase– Question: DEP (C.

Nadareski) requested a copy of the plan

Mitigation measures

o Daddi-long legs

o Electric bird wire

o Bird spikes

“Do Not Feed Signs” – consult with PA

Salt shed – attracted pigeons

o Industrial vinyl strips will be installed by end of 2013

o Sound barrier fencing – vertical top protrusion to prevent birds roosting

All permits in place

Methods for bird dispersals

o Firearms

o Pyrotechnics

Stephan will be going on roof to investigate for gull nesting in the near future

North Shore Marine Transfer Station has low populations

DSNY will install all anti-perching equipment

Feral Cat Trapping

o Question: Port Authority (B. Malione) – Are there feral cat problem at the North Shore

facility? Stephan has only conducted 1 week of trapping.

Canada Goose roundups if necessary

Future Management: lethal control and pyrotechnics

Question: DEP (C. Nadareski) – who is new contact – Dennis Diggins, Assistant Commissioner,

DSNY

Question/Comment DEP (C. Nadareski) – propose to use security camera on Sanitation building

for remote monitoring?

1:15pm Proposed Update of Permits for 2014 (L. Francoeur, PA) – no new update

1:15pm JFK SEIS update and Mute Swan Management by USDA (M. Lowney)

June 2012 published Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement for JFKIA

o National Parks Service (NPS) issued permit for Mute Swan egg oiling

o NPS oiled eggs in 2013

o Supplemental to Supplemental of the EIS concerning Rulers Bar Hassock for Mute Swan

management

o Management plan being developed

o Possible Mute Swan adoption program for private ponds

o Received 1,500 comments of which most were a form letter from “GeeseWatch”

Mute Swan plans for 2014

Awaiting to receive information from public

Population reduction/eradication; trap/euthanize

Adoption program in NYS DEP question: suggested by NYSDEC (yes)

Federal gov’t initiative to eradicate swans


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Mute Swan Management by National Parks Service (G. Frame)

East Pond: 9 nests relocated, of which only 3 had eggs. A total of 3 nests with 14 eggs punctured.

No cygnets observed in 2013

Gateway Marina on Flatbush had only 1 successful nest with 5 or 6 cygnets observed.

Comment by American Littoral Society (D. Riepe) – Mute Swan nest observed

nest in Broad Channel. Lots of swans in Sheepshead Bay observed in 2013.

1:25pm Army Corp of Engineers (L. Houstan)

Corps projects in Jamaica Bay: Post Storm Update ACOE wants to solicit input from the JFK

committee for aircraft safety

Ongoing efforts

o Storm Damage Reduction Studies

o Navigation Projects

o Jamaica Bay Ecosystem Restoration Sites

o CAP Restoration Projects

Marsh Island Restoration projects (2014/2017) - Marsh Island Projects in Jamaica Bay – restore

back to pre-1972 state

Elders Point Marsh Island – allowed to restored to 1970’s condition

o Elders East completed 2006 – 43 acres salt marsh – 14 million dollars

o Elders West completed 2010 - 40 acres; 17 million dollars

o Both survived Hurricane Sandy in good condition without major damage

Yellow Bar Marsh Island

o Dredge pumped to develop island. In conjunction with DEC/DEP. Used existing plants

for new habitat

o Completed 2012

o 44 acres; 19.6 million dollars

o Survived storm in good condition

Black Wall and Rulers Bar

o Used sand/graded; DEC/DEP funded NGO’s planted the islands

o Initiated in 2012

o 22.2 acres in Blackwall 1.3million

o 12.2 acres Rulers Bar for 2.1 million dollars

Gerritsen Creek

o Worked with NYCDPR

o Removed old fill and capped with clean material

o DPR wanted coastal grassland developed well

o Completed 2010; 20 acres marsh 20 acres of coastal grassland

o 8 million dollars

Spring Creek (CAP 1135)

o Proposed: removal of Phragmites and other material

o Funding was reduced then Hurricane Sandy occurred and currently in discussion where

plan will go forward

o Proposed for 12 acres salt marsh and 10 acres upland buffer for 6.5 million dollars.

ACOE working with City Parks


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Plumb Beach Shoreline Protection

o Almost completed when Sandy hit. Some same ended up on Parkway.

Plantings of trees and small shrubs have occurred

o Mostly complete

o 2000 feet beach at 3.5 million dollars

Jamaica Bay Ecosystem Restoration

o Proposed ACOE and DEP

o 203 acres from 8 sites of salt marsh habitat

o 218 acres maritime upland

o 71 acres beach/dune

o 224 acres shallow water habitat

o 250 million dollars

JBERP – mainland restoration sites

o Bayswater State Park

5 acres for 4.8 million dollars

Wetland restoration

o Brant Point

7.5 acres; 7.8 million dollars

o JBERP – Hawtree

2 acres for 1.5 million dollars

o Dead Horse Bay

131 Acres marsh/dune

o Fresh Creek

93 acres at 37.9 million dollars marsh, coastal shrub

o Spring Creek South

152 acres marsh/beach/coastal forest at 60.2 million

o Flushing Bay and Creek Restoration

Complaints about smell from marsh from local community

Build marsh and coastal habitat

o Larger Vision

Hudson-Raritan Estuary

Jamaica Bay Comprehensive Restoration Plan

Feasibility Study to identify recommended plans to implement in 2014

Looking for input on discussion on the plans

Question: DEP (C. Nadareski): can ACOE place link for projects. Len will provide PowerPoint

and link to website

Comment: FAA (E. Martinez) – suggests meeting with Port Authority biologists. Comment: Port

Authority (B. Malione) – works with ACOE

1:55pm Port Authority (L. Francoeur) - Terrapins and Barrier Installation at JFK

June/July females on land nesting and emerge at high tide. Nest in loose sand and above the high

tide mark.

A total of 8 terrapin strikes were recorded at JFK in 2013

Hatchlings live on land for a year or two after hatching


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May be a gull food source but unlikely

Most predation is from raccoons

Strikes at several airports across the country

o JFK – 37 strikes

o RSW – 24 strikes Fort Meyers, FLA

o TEB – 15 strikes (Tetterboro)

Critical time is summer (June and July). About 1300 flights/day during this time of year.

Terrapins landing on all sides

Gaps under fences

PA/USDA assisting

Data – started in 2009. Working with Russ Burke

Tracking studies. Using microchips/pit tags; filing

Relocation site: east side where habitat is available

Barrier test:

o 2 types based on recommendations Wetlands Institute

o Fencing falls apart in about 2 years

o Corrugated tubing works well

o Installed wildlife cameras to monitor activity

o Flooding is a concern lifting the tubing and terrapins can crawl under

o 2013 installed tubing and installed new fencing partly underground

o 8” diameter tubing

o Gates a problem – working on problem in spring 2014 before nesting season

o Question DEP (C. Nadareski) – could there be a saturation in relocation habitat?

o Recapture rate – only 14% previously marked in 2012 and 46% in 2013.

o 6 inch range at JFK at smaller end.

o Plans for 2014 – complete barrier installation; continue to collect and mark and education

and outreach

o In the Jamaica Bay Refuge raccoons consume about 95% of terrapin nests according to

Don Riepe (ALS)

2:15pm Mudflat Issue Port Authority (J. Kolodzinski)

Data collected during hazard assessment

o Low time and high tide

o Comment DEP (C. Nadareski) suggested overnight roosting data – PA will investigate

o Jeff spoke to USDA to develop a plan

o More detail needed

2:20 Round Robin – from all agencies present

FAA – no new issues

PA – no updates. City Parks to discuss North Brother Island reforestation project propose for

March 2014 meeting. Also access issue for Canada Geese/Mute Swan

DEP – Request copies of monthly report summarizing observations and report from USDA on

City properties including Riker’s Island.


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DOC – no new updates. Question: Address issues/concerns with Riker’s directly to DOC.

DEC – post Hurricane Sandy phase – receiving project proposals. Data for wildlife observations

for pre-storm and now looking for post-storm conditions or data. Send directly to Joe Pane at

Long Island City Office (Region II). Raptor trapping proposal – USDA and PA discussing for

American Kestrel relocation. Put on agenda March 2014 meeting

NPS – Revisions to park management plan and will be finalized by December 2013.

Alternatives: increase camp sites and hiking trails. Might need Environmental Assessment if

developed in bird areas or other sensitive areas. West Pond is intertidal and there will be

soliciting public input on future of West Pond. East Pond is being returned to fresh water system.

80 Mute Swans observed in 2013. May increase swan activity in near future. Aquatic vegetation

killed by salinity. Needs monitoring.

USDA – Need to fill jobs. Albany airport biologist; Jenny resigning at JFKIA; 6 seasonal

vacancies in February 2014. Martin will send postings. USFWS to speak about Bald Eagle

proposed regulations. NYC CAGO.

NYCDPR – no new issues

USFWS – not present

American Littoral Society - Jamaica Bay Task Force meeting December 3, 2013. Refuge at

6:30pm. Gateway has new superintendent and will be speaking.

USACOE – Will provide PowerPoint copy of the presentations

Nassau County/Others – not present

Next Meeting: Proposed: Wednesday, March 19, 2014 10 – 2pm. Changed to: Wednesday, March

26, 2014 from 10am to 2pm. LGA, Hanger 7, Marine Air Terminal.

New Committee Chair: Patricia Feeney, Assistant Commissioner, NYC Department of

Corrections. Assistant Chair: Christopher A. Nadareski, Research Scientist IVA, NYC

Department of Environmental Protection

Meeting Adjourned!

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