Planning - Conservation Priorities

Updated 10/12/2006

(1) Birds

(2) Threatened or Endangered Species

(3) Habitats

(4)  Plants

(1) Birds

• Songbirds—Partners in Flight bird conservation plans identifying species priorities by physiographic (vegetative) region:

http://www.partnersinflight.org/

• Waterfowl—North American Waterfowl Management Plan:
  http://nawmp/ca
   
• Shorebirds—North American Shorebird Management Plan:
  www.fws.gov/shorebirdplan
   
• Waterbirds—North American Waterbird Management Plan:
  www.nacwcp.org/
   

(2) Threatened or endangered species

Federally listed plants and animals:
http://endangered.fws.gov/wildlife.html#Species

See section 620.02(b)(4) for links to Conservation
Status of Fish and Wildlife Species Web sites.
 

(3) Habitats

(i) General—The Society for Ecological Restoration’s Primer on Ecological Restoration provides general information concerning restoration of habitats by restoring ecological processes:

http://ser.org/

(ii) Aquatic—Web sites giving general aquatic information are

• USDA Forest Services Stream System Technology Center provides links for downloading information on hydrology, fluvial geomorphology, and stream habitat improvements, including fish passage:

http://www.stream.fs.fed.us/

• EPA’s Surf Your Watershed Web site defines boundaries of watershed, identifies political jurisdictions, and provides links to environmental databases:

http://cfpub.epa.gov/surf/locate/index.cfm

• NatureServe Explorer has information on ecological communities in the United States and Canada:

http://www.natureserve.org/explorer/

Some aquatic Web sites are specifically for streams and stream corridor. They include

• NRCS' Stream Corridor Restoration: Principles, Processes, and Practices provides resources for planning, implementing, and monitoring restoration projects within a watershed context.

http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/technical/stream_restoration/

• EPA's River Corridor and Wetland Restoration Web site:

http://www.epa.gov/owow/restore/

• Know your watershed Web site:

http://www.ctic.purdue.edu/KYW/Brochures/GetToKnow.html

• Fish Base is a global information system with extensive information about fishes.

http://www.fishbase.org/home.htm

(iii) Terrestrial—The NatureServe Explorer is a source for information on ecological communities in the United States and Canada:

http://www.natureserve.org/explorer/

USGS's Gap Analysis Program (GAP) was undertaken to provide regional assessments and to facilitate the application of this information to land management activities. When completed, this program will provide a searchable database for landcover, indices of biodiversity, and distribution and conservation status of terrestrial vertebrates:

http://www.gap.uidaho.edu/

Check your state for GAP status and access to database.

(4) Plants

The NRCS PLANTS database is a single source of standardized information about plants. This database focuses on vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, hornworts, and lichens of the United States and its territories. The PLANTS database includes names, checklists, automated tools, identification information, species abstracts, distributional data, crop information, plant symbols, plant growth data, plant materials information, plant links, references, and other plant information:

http://plants.usda.gov

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