Remaining Wetlands as Percent of Historic Total North
Mid-Latitude South Setting the Stage for Planning
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Levees Dams Roads Railroad track Reservoirs Impoundment Land
use changes and the list goes on..
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Incised river channels Streams disconnected from floodplain
Flooding patterns have changed Existing wetlands overwhelmed by
system processes
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1. Mingo Basin (Duck Creek) 3. Otter Slough Conservation Area
8. Lower Grand River Wetlands (Fountain Grove) 16. Manitou
Floodplain (Eagle Bluffs) 24. Nodaway Valley Conservation Area 26.
Bob Brown Conservation Area 28. West-central Missouri River Bends
(Grand Pass) 31. Ted Shanks Alluvial Complex 32. Lincoln Alluvial
Complex (B.K. Leach) 35. Great Rivers Confluence (Marais Temps
Clair, Columbia Bottoms) 36. Osage River Bottoms (Schell Osage,
Four Rivers) 40. Southeast Missouri Bottomlands (Ten Mile Pond)
Audubon of Missouri: Important Bird Areas
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Grand Pass CA 4,000 hunters spent 22,000 hours hunting 600
anglers spent 1,500 hours fishing 4,000 non-consumptive users spent
5,500 hours on the area
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How do we meet the life history needs of wetland dependent
species on the 13% of wetlands that remain in a highly altered
system?
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Within Regions Among Regions Continental Local
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Lower Grand River COA Goals and Objectives Statewide Goals and
Objectives Upper Mississippi River and Great Lakes Joint Venture
North American Waterfowl Management Plan and other NABCI Plans
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Conceptual Models Assessment Objectives Strategies Monitoring
Competing Alternatives Based on Models Wetland reviews
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Introduction Shared framework of understanding (models)
Assessment of past, present, and desired conditions of Missouris
wetlands Goals and objectives Strategies Monitoring, evaluation,
and research Living Document
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HGM: Linking Ecosystem structure and processes to desired
habitat conditions Providing habitat for wetland dependent species
life history needs Public user participation model: Linking habitat
management to the social landscape
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Hydro-geomorphic model to define landscape setting and system
processes
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Oxbows Point Bars Ephemeral Pools Terraces Bluffs Abandoned
Channels Backswamp Active Channel
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What is the new desired state: A Comparison of Historical vs.
Current Conditions Can the site/region be restored to historical
communities and distribution? If not, can historic habitats be
restored in new locations? What processes must be restored to
sustain the community?
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HGM: Linking Ecosystem structure and processes to desired
habitat conditions Providing habitat for wetland dependent species
to meet life history needs Public user participation model: Linking
habitat management to the social landscape
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HGM: Linking Ecosystem structure and processes to desired
habitat conditions Providing habitat for wetland dependent species
to meet life history needs Public user participation model: Linking
habitat management to the social landscape
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What are assumptions our assumptions about the role the Lower
Grand COA plays in meeting life history needs of wetland dependent
species?
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Open Water River or Ditch Marsh WinteringMigration Breeding Wet
Meadow, Open BLH Managed BLH Moist Soil Unit
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Links to vital rates (non-breeding) Body Condition Habitat
Quality (Food kg/acre) Survival - + + Foraging Time Required
Surplus Energy - + - - + + Non-foraging Time - - Movement
Recruitment Population Density + - +/ - + Pairing Success Timing of
Breeding Breeding Propensity + + - - + + + - - - Predation Harvest
Disease Starvation - - + + + - Body Condition Habitat Quality (Food
kg/acre) + + Survival - Movement Recruitment Population Density - -
+/ - + +
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Truemet Model Other species models?
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How much habitat do I need to achieve a certain waterfowl
population objective ? Given the habitat on my area, what should my
waterfowl population objective be ?
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Population Energy Demand Deficit Enough Surplus Population
Energy Supply Population Objective Bird Energy Needs Habitat
AcresFood Densities
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Kcal x 10 6 Supply Demand
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Open Water River or Ditch Marsh Managed BLH Moist Soil Unit
Pre-SpawnPost SpawnSpawning (spring, summer) Winter Wet Meadow,
Open BLH
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Mallard satellite telemetry project to assess resource
utilization Marsh bird project testing assumptions about the links
between landscape setting, management, and presence Fish and
amphibian project to develop rapid assessment methods
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Proposed Hunter Participation Model Habitat Pop. Recruitment
Retention Turnover Attrition Capacity to Hunt Identity Formation
Decisions to Hunt Hunters
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Hunter Participation Model Capacity Building Identity
Production Individual Society Temporal Scale Decision to Hunt
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What is the appropriate amount of refuge? Can managed hunt
reservation systems influence participation? How does hunting fit
into Swan Lake objectives? How can this region connect people to
the outdoors through a variety of activities?
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HGM Assessment Assessing landscape conditions past, present,
and future Energetic Assessment/Meeting Life History Needs
Assessing food abundance and availability Apply species specific
energetic requirements Public Use Assessment Analysis of POS data
Green card data Other public use data sets
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Management Populations Ecosystem Processes Hunting Opportunity
Food Production Food plots Moist-soil Native Sanctuary Dispersion
of food & sanctuary Riparian Access to hunters / public I.
Local Objectives Within Regions Among Regions Continental Local
MoreLessEither
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Restoring system processes Emulating system processes Providing
resources for wetland dependent species Providing public use
opportunities
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Introduction Shared framework of understanding (models)
Assessment of past, present, and desired conditions of Missouris
wetlands Goals and objectives Strategies Monitoring, evaluation,
and research Living Document
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Identify goals, objectives, and strategies that enhance
coordination among wetland management units within 6 regions with
major wetland complexes. Develop goals, objective, and monitoring
systems that can be rolled up to state and broader scales.
1. HGM model/assessment 2. Truemet model/life history needs
assessment 3. Public use model/assessment 4. Regional Teams 5.
Monitoring, evaluation, and Research 6. Education 7. Wetland
Reviews
- Do we develop a state wetland plan or an MDC wetland plan
with partner input? - How do we get partner input at the local,
regional, and state levels? - - How do we connect a wetland plan
with plans with others dealing with adjoining ecological
communities? - - How do we coordinate MDC planning and management
activities with other agency plans and actions?
