U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Conserving the Nature of America How does the surrogate species effort relate to other ongoing efforts? Birds of Management Concern Pose special management challenges Birds of Conservation Concern Likely to become candidates for ESA listing without additional conservation actions Focal Species Measure success in achieving bird conservation Migratory Birds

U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Conserving the Nature of America How does the surrogate species effort relate to other ongoing efforts? Develop practical and science-based methods for applying landscape level conservation Provide science support for selecting surrogates Establish monitoring protocols National Wildlife Refuge System Inventory and Monitoring (I&M) Program

U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Conserving the Nature of America How does the surrogate species effort relate to other ongoing efforts? Species Prioritization Process Goal: Achieve maximum conservation benefit for all of our (Service) listed or candidate species with available resources and prevent extinction of any of these species Ranking exercise to develop a priority list Considering factors such as representative species on the landscape, partnerships, energy development, tribal interests Ecological Services

U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Conserving the Nature of America How does the surrogate species effort relate to other ongoing efforts? Fisheries Restoration of the threatened Apache trout Effective public-private partnerships Strategic Habitat Conservation approach Developed biological objectives, identified needed water and habitat management practices to achieve objectives, implemented collaborative scientific monitoring

U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Conserving the Nature of America How does the surrogate species effort relate to other ongoing efforts? Landscape Conservation Cooperatives Applied conservation partnerships with two main functions: 1.Provide the science and technical expertise needed to support conservation planning at landscape scales 2.Promote collaboration among their members in defining shared conservation goals

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