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Virginias Wildlife Action Plan: Keeping Common Species Common Austin Kane and Chris Burkett Virginia Tech/CMI and DGIF February 24, 2016 While we are here The Wildlife Action Plan Background/ Significance Priority species

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Virginia’s Wildlife Action Plan: Keeping Common Species Common

Austin Kane and Chris Burkett Virginia Tech/CMI and DGIF February 24, 2016

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While we are here…

  • The Wildlife Action Plan

– Background/ Significance – Priority species – Key Habitats – Threats – Conservation Actions

  • Answer Questions
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Keeping Common Species Common

  • It is easier and cheaper to

conserve species before they become endangered.

  • Congress developed State

Wildlife Grants

  • Requires a Wildlife Action Plan

Virginia’s 2nd Action Plan recently completed.

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Wildlife Action Plans

Locally relevant and actionable Blueprint for conservation action Benefits for people and wildlife

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Species of Greatest Conservation Need

Image by: USFWS Image by: PA NG

884 Species of Greatest Conservation Need

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Habitat Focus

Image by: VA DCR

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Local Action Plan Summaries

Stand alone chapters for the 21 Planning Regions

Define Local Actionable Priorities

– Identifying priority species and habitats – Identify problems impacting Action Plan species and habitats – Actions that can be taken to address those problems – Places where those actions should be implemented first

Virginia Outdoors Plan Format

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Primary Threats

  • Loss and fragmentation of habitats
  • Water quality degradation
  • Invasive species
  • Climate Change
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Conservation Actions

  • Example conservation actions

– Riparian buffers – BMPs – Land conservation – Restoration – Restoring connectivity – Climate-smart actions

  • Actions benefit a wide range of fish and

wildlife

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Managing for Open Habitats

  • Rare and managed in

ways that can exclude wildlife

– Manage after timber harvest/ agricultural applications – Control invasive species – Plant native species

  • Citizen monitoring
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Action Plan Website

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Action Plan Website

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Action Plan Website

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Action Plan Website

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Chris Burkett, Wildlife Action Plan Coordinator Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries 804-367-9717 Chris.Burkett@dgif.virginia.gov

Thank You

Austin Kane, Project Associate Conservation Management Institute/ Virginia Tech 804-288-4719 Austin.Kane@vt.edu

www.bewildvirginia.org