November 2014

November 2014

Inside the November 2014 Edition

Strategic Plan Launched for Landscape Conservation Cooperatives (LCC) Network

The vision of the Landscape Conservation Cooperative (LCC) Network is to conserve landscapes capable of sustaining natural and cultural resources for current and future generations. To move the LCC Network's vision forward, a strategic plan was released in late October. The plan was developed over the past six months with input from across the 22 LCCs including states, provinces, tribes, federal agencies, non-governmental organizations, universities, and others.

The strategic plan identifies goals, objectives...

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CRP Enrollment Declines Linked to High Commodity Prices

According to research from Purdue University, enrollment in the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) has been steadily declining since 2007. One of the primary drivers of this are the high commodity prices through last year that encourage farmers to plant or rent their agricultural lands, reports the Wildlife Management Institute.

David Widmar, a research associate at Purdue's Department of Agricultural Economics, found that the number of acres in CRP fell by nearly 10 million...

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International Sage-Grouse Forum Held in Salt Lake

An International Sage-Grouse Forum sponsored by the Jack H. Berryman Institute for Wildlife Damage Management at Utah State University (USU), state and federal management agencies, and industry was held in Salt Lake City, Utah on November 13 and 14. The forum, conducted under the auspices of the Western Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies (WAFWA), drew over 350 state, federal and local government officials; private landowners; industry representatives; conservation group members; and faculty and staff from numerous...

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Colorado State University Wildlife Management Short Course Scheduled for March

From March 23 to 27, 2015, the Department of Fish, Wildlife and Conservation Biology at Colorado State University is running its annual Wildlife Management Short Course on the campus in Fort Collins, Colorado. This popular course was developed for laypersons and agency personnel with non-wildlife training. A number of agencies have sent administrators, commissioners, planners, information and environmental education personnel, legislators, and other staff to this course to obtain a broad exposure to wildlife conservation, management and issues. Citizen conservation...
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USGS Cooperative Research Unit Corner

Bat Colony Social Patterns on Defense Lands

Bat conservation and management is a tricky business. Hard to catch, count and track, most species' life history aspects, including those "relatively" well studied such as the endangered Indiana bat (Myotis sodalis), remain a mystery. For land managers in the eastern United States tasked with a myriad of stewardship responsibilities and multiple-use outputs, finding the right strategies to balance resource management needs with the needs of forest-roosting bats has been difficult. Often, the mere presence of Indiana bats or the discovery of a tree or snag hosting a maternity...
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