1. Planning and Monitoring What is a habitat management plan? Why prepare a management plan? What sections comprise a management plan? How is each section of a management plan prepared

2. Planning and Monitoring Potential to Benefit & Damage –Need to consider What you want to achieve (objectives) How you intend to achieve it (prescriptions) How you will know if you are achieving it (monitoring)

3. Planning and Monitoring What is a Habitat Management Plan? –Written guide detailing Why How When Where Implement habitat management practices Credit: awm.delaware.govCredit: csbsju.eduCredit: shawnature.org

4. Planning and Monitoring What is a Management Plan? –Written guide that Promotes a logical decision-making process Informs people what needs doing at a site Facilitates communication Details monitoring and re-evaluation activities Adaptive Management

5. Planning and Monitoring The Process of Monitoring & Re-evaluation –Adaptive management Management Plan Implement the actions set out in the management plan Record the actions undertaken Monitor the effects of these actions New external information Disseminate information to others Evaluation and Review

6. Planning and Monitoring Management Plan –Key decisions Stakeholder involvement Credit: bayviews.comCredit: A. Willcox

7. Planning and Monitoring Management Plan Format –Summary –Introduction & Inventory –Objectives –Prescriptions –Monitoring Protocol –Useable & Flexible

8. Planning and Monitoring Section 1: Summary –Used to communicate key elements of plan Description of the site and why it is special Site objectives Site prescriptions Monitoring protocol

9. Planning and Monitoring Section 2: Introduction & Inventory –Details information relevant to decision-making –Divided into sections General- location, area, infrastructure Physical- geology, soils, hydrology, climate Biological- habitats, species, processes Socio-economic- resource use, stakeholders

10. Planning and Monitoring Section 2: Introduction & Inventory –Develop map & past management Wetlands Grassland 2 Grassland 1 Road Trail Habitats

11. Planning and Monitoring Section 3: Objectives –What you want to achieve Wildlife Habitat Prioritized –Other land-use objectives –Multiple wildlife species objectives Credit: hankinslumber.comCredit: wildliferanger.com

12. Planning and Monitoring Section 3: Objectives –What you want to achieve Think SMART! –Specific –Measurable –Assessable –Realistic –Time-specific

13. Planning and Monitoring Section 3: Objectives –What you want to achieve (general) –Set targets or target ranges (specific) Ends objectives- Species targets Means objectives- Habitat targets Credit: birdsasart.comCredit: birdwatchersdigest.com

14. Planning and Monitoring Section 3: Objectives –What you want to achieve –Set targets or target ranges People targets –Means objectives only

15. Planning and Monitoring Section 4: Prescriptions –How you intend to achieve it Need to consider –Impacts of practices –Location –Timing –Costs –Conflicts

16. Planning and Monitoring Section 4: Prescriptions –Develop a Map Prescriptions A= Summer Grazing B= Summer Mowing C= Winter Flooding Wetlands Grassland 2 Grassland 1 Road Trail Habitats B & C B B A & C

17. Planning and Monitoring Section 4: Prescriptions –Timeline of management activities Year 1-5 Management Practice WinterSpringSummerFall DecJanFebMarAprMa y JunJulAugSepOctNov Summer Grazing (A) Mowing (B) Flooding (C)

18. Planning and Monitoring Section 5: Monitoring –What is monitoring? Repeat surveys to determine –Progress towards target –Compliance with standard –Deviation from expected norm

19. Planning and Monitoring Section 5: Monitoring –Without monitoring unable to Determine if management successful Detect long-term changes in conditions

20. Planning and Monitoring Section 5: Monitoring –Adaptive management Management Plan Implement the actions set out in the management plan Record the actions undertaken Monitor the effects of these actions New external information Disseminate information to others Evaluation and Review

21. Planning and Monitoring Section 5: Monitoring –Consider What How When Credit: amlrnrm.sa.gov.au Credit: E Willcox Credit: UF WEC

22. Planning and Monitoring Section 5: Monitoring –What to monitor Objectives –Species targets –Habitat targets Credit: UF WEC

23. Planning and Monitoring Section 5: Monitor –How & when to monitor –Resources Wildlife Techniques Course Sutherland, W. J. (ed.). (2006). Ecological Census Techniques: A Handbook. Cambridge University Press. Cambridge. Hill, D., Fasham, M., Tucker, G., Shewry, M. and Shaw, P. (eds.). (2005) Handbook of Biodiversity Methods: Survey, Evaluation, and Monitoring. Cambridge University Press Cambridge.

24. Planning and Monitoring Section 5: Monitoring –Remember Record management actions Make the most of existing information

25. Planning and Monitoring Section 5: Monitoring –Objective Based Vegetation Management (FWC) –Involves Setting clear, measurable objectives Taking management actions Monitoring vegetation response Adapting management as necessary

26. Planning and Monitoring Habitat Management Plans –FWC examples –USDA-NRCS Soils: http://websoilsurvey.nrcs.usda.gov/app/HomePage.htm http://websoilsurvey.nrcs.usda.gov/app/HomePage.htm

27. Planning and Monitoring Habitat Management Plans –What they are –Why we should prepare them –The sections they contain –How we write them