Atlantic Coast Joint Venture Annual Report to the Board for 2009 Management Board Meeting March 10, 2010 via teleconference (handout #5) 1.

Atlantic Coast Joint Venture

Annual Report to the Board for 2009Management Board Meeting

March 10, 2010 via teleconference

(handout #5)

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Management Board MembersConnecticut

DelawareGeorgiaFloridaMaine

MarylandMassachusetts

New HampshireNew JerseyNew York

North CarolinaPennsylvaniaPuerto Rico

Rhode IslandSouth Carolina

VermontVirginia

Ducks Unlimited (2)National Fish and

Wildlife FoundationNational Park Service

The Nature ConservancyU.S. Fish and

Wildlife Service (2)U.S. Geological

SurveyUSDA Forest ServiceWildlife Management

Institute

ACJV LEADERSHIP

Ken Elowe, Board Chair, MEDan Forster, Vice Chair, GA

Steve Rockwood, GBTC Chair, FLJoe FullerGBTC Vice Chair, NCLaurel Moore-BarnhillNBTC Chair, SCBrad WinnNBTC Vice Chair, GAJohn Frampton, NAWMP PlanComm., SCWayne MacCallum NAWCA Council,MA Rob Deblinger, Council Staff, MA

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ACJV StaffMitch HartleyNorth Atl. Coord. (Hadley, MA)States: ME, NH, VT, NY, MA, RI, CT BCRs: LGL-SL, ANF, NE-MAOther: Coord. With EHJV, Canada

Melanie SteinkampMid Atl. Coord. (Laurel, MD)States: NJ, PA, DE, MD, VA, WV BCRs: NE-MA, Pied., N. AppsOther: Ches. Bay, Del. Bay Working Groups

Craig WatsonSouth Atl. Coord. (Charleston, SC)States: NC, SC, GA, FL, PRBCRs: SAMBI, S. Pdmt., Pen. FL, PR-VIOther: Caribbean, Mexico

Andrew Milliken JV Coordinator

Debra ReynoldsOutreach Coordinator

(Hadley, MA)

Tim JonesScience Coordinator

(Laurel, MD)

Kirsten LukeGIS Analyst (Contract)

(Panama City, FL)

VacantAssistant Science Coordinator(s)

JV-Wide

Regional

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ACJV Highlights 2009 433,000 acres of habitat conserved in 2009, over 5.3

million acres total conserved by ACJV partners 34 NAWCA grants approved (2009) – most ever,

and 27 grants recommended (2010); additional oil spill funds received; Great Lakes funds received

Strategic Plan Update completed and approved Conservation Design Multistate Grant Project

underway and ready to expand Flyway Integrated Waterbird Monitoring and

Management fully underway and includes states Multiple research and monitoring projects funded JV leadership/involvement in LCC development 4

Strategic Plan Mission The Atlantic Coast Joint Venture will provide a

forum for federal, state, regional and local partners to coordinate and improve the

effectiveness of bird habitat conservation planning, implementation and evaluation in

the Atlantic Flyway region of the United States.

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Components needed to accomplish this mission

Coordination and Organization Biological Planning Conservation Design Conservation Delivery Monitoring and Evaluation Research Communications and Outreach

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ACJV Strategic Plan Annual Accomplishment Measures

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Components, Goals & Objectives

Structure and Partnership Coordination – Strategic Plan, Management Board, Technical

Committees, state and focus area working groups Administration and Funding

– Staff, administration, funding

Coordination and OrganizationProvide a structure and process that attracts partners, leverages and generates funding, and implements coordinated planning, delivery and evaluation projects that support ACJV goals and objectives and provide opportunities for collaboration with other wildlife and fish habitat conservation partnerships.

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Coordination and Organization

Strategic Plan Updated Board meetings and calls

completed; December meeting on science/LCCs

Technical Committees re-organized

Additional focus area working groups

Small increase in ACJV admin. budget in FY 2009 and FY 2010

Addressing LCC relationships

Continued staff, board and technical committee involvement in LCCs

Additional technical subcommittee development e.g., shorebird subcommittee

Delaware Bay working group formed

Maintain or increase budget in FY 2011– Full time GIS staff and additional

science support staff

– Funding for discretionary projects

2009 Accomplishments 2010 Goals/Needs

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Components, Goals & Objectives

Structure and Plans– Biological Foundation Plan, Waterfowl

Implementation Plan, BCR Plans, Marine Birds Cooperative, Web-based information

Steps/products– Priority species, representative spp.,

population objectives, threats & limiting factors, species-habitat models

Biological Planning Compile and provide information on priority bird species and their relationship to habitats to provide a biological basis for conservation actions

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Components, Goals & Objectives

Information available at appropriate scales– Maps, spatial databases, decision support tools

Steps/products– Existing habitat capacity, habitat objectives,

landscape change, future habitat capacity, decision support tools, protected and managed lands databases, optimal landscape designs

Conservation Design Provide tools to guide management decisions to efficiently achieve bird conservation (and associated wildlife and fish) habitat objectives.

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Biological Planning and Conservation Design

Initial Piedmont BCR planning underway

Marine bird planning funded and underway

Waterfowl population and habitat objective approach finalized

Staff /partner support for NAWMP, USSCP, PIF

Significant progress on Designing Sustainable Landscapes project

Dynamic sea-level rise project underway

Final year of pilot Designing Sustainable Landscapes project

Expand to Piedmont and North Atlantic through LCC funding

Testing/validating of decision support tools

Complete waterfowl population and habitat objectives

Complete initial sea level rise models, expand to South Atlantic

Initiate additional migratory hotspot mapping

Assist Audubon with forest block analysis

2009 Accomplishments 2010 Goals/Needs

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+100 years+100 years

+10 years+10 years+20 years+20 years+30 years+30 years+40 years+40 years+50 years+50 years+60 years+60 years+70 years+70 years+80 years+80 years+90 years+90 years

Designing Sustainable Designing Sustainable LandscapesLandscapesLandscape ChangeLandscape Changefor Next 100 yrs.for Next 100 yrs.

20012001

LakeLakeMoultrieMoultrie

CharlestonCharleston

Incorporates:Incorporates:sea level risesea level riseurban growthurban growth

successionsuccession

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Components, Goals & Objectives

Delivery Partnerships – State, focus area, habitat

Project Funding – JV seed funds, federal grants, new and non-

traditional partners, international Information for Guiding Delivery

Conservation Delivery Facilitate partnerships for conservation delivery, seek and leverage funding, provide information to influence management and deliver conservation actions guided by biological foundation to efficiently achieve bird and associated wildlife and fish habitat conservation objectives

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Conservation Delivery

433k acres habitat conserved

700 + partner projects Highest success with

NAWCA, more oil spill $ Multiple focus area

partnerships supported Chesapeake Bay WAT Habitat initiatives e.g.

early successional, forests

Submit Mass. oil spill projects

Great Lakes NAWCA and JV funds

Maintain/increase success with Coastal Grants

Early successional working groups in North Atlantic

Delaware Bay partnership Increase NRCS Coordination Increase NFWF Coordination Pilot decision support tools

with decision makers

2009 Accomplishments

2010 Goals/Needs

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FY 2009 Acres Conserved by Program

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Program Protected Restored Enhanced Total

Coastal 10,046 300 0 10,346

DU 8,838 3,398 15,923 28,158

NAWCA 62,618 12,354 1,927 76,899

NWR 5,835 0 0 5,835

PFFW 43,408 20,848 3,097 67,353

State 17,673 882 118,004 136,558

TNC 139,169 0 0 139,169

FY 2009 Acres Conserved by State

State Protected Restored Enhanced Total

CT 1,679 197 479 2,355

DE 38 1,207 6,550 7,795

FL 15,468 2,177 107,549 125,195

GA 23,789 2,429 24 26,242

MA 7,034 942 599 8,575

MD 10,201 1,071 2,506 13,778

ME 56,598 4,112 0 60,709

NC 24,561 8,413 16,120 49,094

NH 1,340 0 0 1,340

NJ 2,066 1,176 0 3,242

NY 74,507 530 235 75,271

PA 205 110 3,059 3,374

PR 445 416 469 1,329

RI 928 41 0 969

SC 25,101 1,946 542 27,589

VA 12,648 10,085 295 23,028

VT 2,236 417 89 2,741

Total 258,844 35,267 138,516 432,62617

ACJV Partner Accomplishments with Spatial Data

FY 2009

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Highest priority patchesHighest priority patchesunder 10 yrs CP 36under 10 yrs CP 36

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Components, Goals & Objectives

Population Monitoring– Utilize existing monitoring, design new monitoring,

flyway waterbird monitoring

Habitat Monitoring– Explore options for habitat monitoring, assess net

change in habitat types

Conservation Tracking– ACJV project tracking, spatial protected and

managed lands databases

Monitoring and Evaluation Facilitate monitoring of bird populations and habitats to assess the effectiveness of conservation actions and track conservation projects to assess progress and guide future actions.

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Components, Goals & Objectives

Research Coordination and Funding– Identify research needs, seek funds through

grants and programs Research Prioritization

– Target research to address key uncertainties, conduct sensitivity analysis

Research Provide a structure and process that generates, attracts, leverages, and implements priority assumption-driven research activities in support of joint venture established objectives

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Monitoring, Evaluation and Research

Flyway Integrated Waterbird Monitoring & Management being developed with states

Seabird monitoring funded and implemented

Painted bunting monitoring implemented

Black duck and brant energetics research nearing completion

Research on forest bird use in e.s. habitats

Flyway Integrated Waterbird Monitoring & Management implemented

Coordination of marshbird monitoring with JV/flyway

Models/tools for estimating spatial distribution and density of seabirds

Managed lands database developed for additional states

Secured lands data in the SE Spatial accomplishment data Science needs compiled and

prioritized; funding and coordination through LCCs

2009 Accomplishments

2010 Goals/Needs

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Outside Funding 2007-2009Funding Source Project

AFWA/USFWS Multist. Grants

Northeast Coordinated Bird Monitoring

Designing Sustainable Landscapes for Birds in the Eastern U.S.

BDJV/DU/state Black duck wintering behavior and energetics

SDJV Atlantic Coast Sea Duck Surveys, Seawatch

U. of Delaware Brant wintering behavior and energetics

U.S.G.S. Science Support

Optimal Landscape Design

Bird and Bat Migration on Appalachian Ridges

Atlantic Coast Sea Level Rise and Impacts on Birds

Migratory stopover habitat

Post-breeding use of early successional habitats by forest birds

U.S.G.S. NBII Atlantic Flyway SWAP Bird Information Database

Doris Duke Regional Habitat Classification and Mapping, Phase I

NEAFWA Regional Habitat Classification and Mapping, Phase II

NFWF Rangewide Longleaf Pine Decision Support Tool

MMS Seabird surveys and data compilation 23

Components, Goals & Objectives

Partners Public/External Partners Congress

Communication and Outreach Develop effective communication products to attract partners, support existing funding and seek new funds, improve internal relations and raise awareness of ACJV conservation priorities targeted to specific audiences.

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Communication and Outreach

New BCR websites completed

Brochure update Quarterly newsletters Fact Sheets expanded and

updated Congress

– National Fact Sheet– Climate Change Insert– 12 visits + 7 folders

delivered

Website updates/meetings Biological Foundation Plan

elements online Update fact sheets New folder/brochure New web-based newsletter Spatial Accomplishment

Information Congress

– 2011/12 Budget Outreach

– Hill and District Visits

– Field trips

2009 Accomplishments 2010 Goals/Needs

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ACJV Staff Hard at Work

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2009 ACJV Admin. Budget

FUNDING 1234$OTHER

FEDERAL$

NON-FED. PARTNER$

ACRES-ALL

PARTNERS

BAS Allocation 831,841

Regional Admin. Support

129,779

Coordination 216,825 24,132 25,000

Communication 106,594 0 5,000

Planning 181,883 592,649 65,000

Monitoring/Evaluation/Research

85,339 296,000 30,000

Project Dev. & Implementation

111,422 64,826,828 239,236,092 482,345

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ACJV Administrative Budget FY 2009 - minor increase to $832K; increase in

FY 2010 to 882K, could be decreased in FY 2011 (but could be Chesapeake Bay funds)

Increased fixed costs for salary and operations; sharing costs for biological planning and monitoring with Division of Migratory Birds populations branch

No discretionary funds for projects Need for additional base funding in FY 2011 to

implement Strategic Plan, maintain GIS support and have discretionary funds.

Allocation process among JVs based on matrix of JV activities does not explicitly account for size and complexity 28

Concerns and Challenges for 2010 Budget

– Maintain existing staff

– Fully support GIS position (contract)

– Discretionary funds (partner travel and projects)

Workload for staff and partners related to ACJV, LCC, climate change, regional partnerships (e.g. Chesapeake Bay)

Articulate clear role, reduce redundancy in larger landscape conservation and climate change efforts

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Management Board MembersConnecticut

DelawareGeorgiaFloridaMaine

MarylandMassachusetts

New HampshireNew JerseyNew York

North CarolinaPennsylvaniaPuerto Rico

Rhode IslandSouth Carolina

VermontVirginia

Ducks Unlimited (2)National Fish and

Wildlife FoundationNational Park Service

The Nature ConservancyU.S. Fish and

Wildlife Service (2)U.S. Geological

SurveyUSDA Forest ServiceWildlife Management

Institute

ACJV LEADERSHIP

Ken Elowe, Board Chair, MEDan Forster, Vice Chair, GA

Steve Rockwood, GBTC Chair, FLJoe FullerGBTC Vice Chair, NCLaurel Moore-BarnhillNBTC Chair, SCBrad WinnNBTC Vice Chair, GAJohn Frampton, NAWMP PlanComm., SCWayne MacCallum NAWCA Council,MA Rob Deblinger, Council Staff, MA

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Thanks to the leadership and

members of the

Management Board and Technical

Committees