1. RESEARCH Assessment of CRP Targeting Towards Existing Decision Support Model Priorities Blair Tirpak The Nature Conservancy June 9, 2011

2. OUTLINE Background Methods Results Discussion/Management Implications

3. BACKGROUND Agreement between LMVJV Office and FSA Shared commitments FSA provides geospatial CRP data LMVJV provides geospatial analysis capacity Mutual benefits FSA gains better accounting of CRP effectiveness LMVJV gains better accounting of CRP contributions

4. BACKGROUND Objective Are CRP acres non- randomly distributed across the landscape relative to priorities identified within DSTs

5. METHODS Overlaid geospatial CRP data on existing LMVJV decision support tools MAV Ducks Unlimited’s Observed Flood Index Forest Breeding Bird Decision Support Model WGCP/O Northern Bobwhite Decision Support Model Open Pine Decision Support Tool

6. METHODS Surveyed managers to ID the CRP practices relevant to each tool CODEDescription MAV Acres WGCP ACRES Flood Index Forest Breed Bird Bobwhite Twedt Open Pine CP2Native Grasses6,9491,883 X CP3Softwood Tree Planting11,7936,960 XX CP3AHardwood Tree Planting121,78111,020 X CP4Establishment of Permanent Wildlife Habitat244362XXXX CP4A 480XXXX CP4BPermanent Wildlife Habitat Corridors5410 XXX CP4DPermanent Wildlife Habitat24,374124 XXX CP8AGrassed Waterways, Noneasement1,7883 X CP9Shallow Water Areas for Wildlife13584X CP10Grass Already Established27,2594,786 CP11Trees Already Planted54,33733,674 XXX CP12Wildlife Food Plot1,189142 X

7. RESULTS – MAV – FBB DSM

10. RESULTS – WGCP/O – OPEN PINE

12. DISCUSSION/ MANGEMENT IMPLICATIONS Targeting correlated with age of DST Adoption of tool Adoption of logic How do we quicken pace of adoption? CREP Increase capacity (Pvt Landowner Tech. Assistance Program)

13. DISCUSSION/ MANGEMENT IMPLICATIONS Future Directions Evaluation of additional DSTs Biologist Ranking Information for NBCI NFHAP Risk Assessment Expand to other geographies Interior Highlands East Gulf Coastal Plain