Atlantic coast joint venture waterfowl implementation plan
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Figure 1.1. Administrative boundaries of NAWMP habitat joint ventures in the United States. 
Figure 1.2. Adminstrative boundaries of the Atlantic Coast Joint Venture. Original boundary circa 1988 depicted in panel A while current boundary, as of 2001, is depicted in panel B. acres) of wetland and upland buffer habitats and to improve or enhance an additional 67,169 ha (165,977 acres) of wetland habitats on federal and state-owned lands. In 1996, the Lower Great - Lakes St. Lawrence Basin Joint Venture was dissolved with the eastern part added to the Atlantic Coast Joint Venture. In addition, Georgia (1994), West Virginia (1996), Florida (1997), and Puerto Rico (2001) all became partners in the ACJV resulting in a joint venture boundary that matches the U.S. portion of the Atlantic Flyway boundary (Fig. 1.2b). The objectives for the ACJV (reflected in the 1998 NAWMP Update) increased to protection of 382,429 ha (945,000 acres), restoration of 35,633 ha (88,050 acres) and enhancement of an additional 49,267 ha (121,740 acres) of waterfowl habitat. The mission of the ACJV also has continued to evolve with the decision by the ACJV Management Board to embrace a more comprehensive approach that emphasizes all-bird conservation. It is important to note that although the Joint Venture has adopted the concept of all-bird conservation, the emphasis of this ACJV Waterfowl Implementation Plan revision is still on habitat conservation for waterfowl consistent with the objectives of the North American Waterfowl Management Plan. The purpose of this document is to step down the continental and regional goals of the North American Waterfowl Management Plan 2004 Update to the ACJV area, present a current status assessment of waterfowl and their habitats in the joint venture, update focus area narratives and maps for each state, and present habitat conservation goals and population indices for the ACJV consistent with NAWMP. The ACJV will integrate the information from this plan with information from the other continental, national, and regional bird conservation plans to determine integrated bird conservation goals at the eco-regional scale for all of the Bird Conservation Regions (BCR) partially or wholly within the Atlantic Coast Joint Venture (Fig. 1.3). 
Figure 1.3. Bird Conservation Regions (BCR) of the Atlantic Coast Joint Venture. BCR 13 - Lower Great Lakes / St. Lawrence Plain, BCR 14 – Atlantic Northern Forest, BCR 27 – Southeastern Coastal Plain, BCR 28 – Appalachian Mtns, BCR 29 – Piedmont, BCR 30 – New England / Mid-Atlantic Coast, BCR 31 – Peninsular Florida, BCR 69 – Puerto Rico and U.S. Virgin Islands (not officially recognized by NABCI) Directory: documents documents -> Concept stage documents -> Concept stage documents -> The great global switch-off documents -> Nonprofit grant application documents -> The Truth about the Rwandan Genocide documents -> Annual InStructional unit plan documents -> Chaos equipment included Download 9.54 Mb. Share with your friends:
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