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NAWMP - a conservation model
IIC Work Plan
A focus on objectives
NAWMP - a conservation model
IIC Work Plan
A focus on objectives
Signed in 1986 by Canada & U.S.
$4.5 billion
15.7 million acres
Signed in 1986 by Canada & U.S.
$4.5 billion
15.7 million acres
North American Waterfowl Management Plan
North American Waterfowl Management Plan
NAWMP - What changed in 1986?
Landscape-scale effort – “Joint Ventures”
Partnerships and leveraging resources
Numerical population objectives
Implied goal of sustaining sport hunting
NAWMP Updates:
1994: Expanding the commitment • Mexico added as signatory
1998: Expanding the vision• Moving toward landscape conservation, • Broadening partnerships – “All Birds”
2004: Strengthening the biological foundation• NAWMP Assessment - 2007
2012: Integrating harvest, habitat, and hunters
NAWMP Updates:
1994: Expanding the commitment • Mexico added as signatory
1998: Expanding the vision• Moving toward landscape conservation, • Broadening partnerships – “All Birds”
2004: Strengthening the biological foundation• NAWMP Assessment - 2007
2012: Integrating harvest, habitat, and hunters
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Losing wetlands and grasslands faster than restored
Threats are growing – human population growth, water scarcity, climate change, energy …
Losing hunters and their revenue and policy support - society disconnected from outdoors
Losing resources – budgets not keeping pace with challenges
Losing wetlands and grasslands faster than restored
Threats are growing – human population growth, water scarcity, climate change, energy …
Losing hunters and their revenue and policy support - society disconnected from outdoors
Losing resources – budgets not keeping pace with challenges
NAWMP 2012: Clarifying the problemNAWMP 2012: Clarifying the problem
Degraded breeding grounds
Coastal Marsh Loss
Rice and Water
Boreal Forest
Light Goose populations
Trends in U.S. and Canadian Waterfowl Hunters
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http://www.nawmprevision.orghttp://www.nawmprevision.org
What We Heard at Workshops
“Re-vision” the waterfowl management enterprise Break down silos; work towards common goals Become more effective and efficient
Integrate objectives Coordinate actions
Keep pace with environmental and societal changes More explicit consideration of people
Address the decline in waterfowl hunters Engage a broader base of supporters
1. Abundant and resilient waterfowl populations to support hunting and other uses without imperiling habitat. 2. Wetlands and related habitats sufficient to sustain waterfowl populations at desired levels, while providing places to recreate and ecological services that benefit society.3. Growing numbers of waterfowl hunters, other conservationists, and citizens who enjoy and actively support waterfowl and wetlands conservation.
Revised NAWMP Goals
2004:The purpose of the plan is to sustain abundant waterfowl populations by conserving landscapes, through partnerships that are guided by sound science
2012:“The purpose of the NAWMP is to sustain North America’s waterfowl populations and their habitats at levels that satisfy human desires and perpetuate waterfowl hunting, accomplished through partnerships guided by sound science”
Revised NAWMP Vision
Goals Are Linked and Inseparable
Healthy Populations
Conserved Habitat
Hunters and Viewers
Recommendations - NAWMP Action Plan
Integrate waterfowl management
Develop, revise or reaffirm NAWMP objectives
Focus resources on important landscapes
Build support for waterfowl conservation
Establish a Human Dimensions Working Group
Adapt harvest management strategies
Increase adaptive capacity
Premise: Management of waterfowl populations, conservation of waterfowl habitat, and engagement of waterfowl supporters are inseparably linked.
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Interim Integration Committee :
Focal point for gathering, vetting & synthesizing ideas from the waterfowl management community Prepare a work plan to advance integration. Support a process for explicit objectives Collaborate with work groups to develop scale-specific monitoring, assessment & decision support Develop a communication strategy Ultimately, guide review of institutional structures
Interim Integration Committee :
Focal point for gathering, vetting & synthesizing ideas from the waterfowl management community Prepare a work plan to advance integration. Support a process for explicit objectives Collaborate with work groups to develop scale-specific monitoring, assessment & decision support Develop a communication strategy Ultimately, guide review of institutional structures
Policy supportTechnical expertise
JV experienceCommunications insight
Logistic support Funding
Interim Integration CommitteeDale Humburg, Chair
Lyle Saigeon (SK)Natalie Sexton (USFWS)
Ken Richkus (USFWS)David Goad (AR)
Mike Anderson (DUC)Dave Duncan (CWS)Mike Brasher (NSST)
Mike Carter (JV)Diane Eggeman (FL)
Andrew Raedeke (MO)Jim Gammonley (CO)Dan Yparraguirre (CA)Dean Smith (AFWA)
Interim Integration Committee: Advance the integrated management of North American waterfowl populations, harvest, habitat conservation, and associated user and conservation supporters.
Develop work plans: Prioritized actions Expected outcome(s) Assumptions Potential approach/ process (stakeholders) Resourcing strategy (responsibility) Budget Timeline
Implementing the 2012 NAWMP Revision:
Engage stakeholders throughout the process Future of Waterfowl Management Summit II
Revise NAWMP objectives Waterfowl Populations (10 species from TSA) Waterfowl hunters, viewers, supporters Waterfowl Habitat
Implementing the 2012 NAWMP Revision:
Develop models & tools in support of implementation
Review mallard harvest management Eastern mallards Midcontinent mallards – joint MF/CF Western mallards
Concurrently explore multi-species management Develop a modeling framework of social processes Decision support tools for priority landscapes Modeling framework integrating objectives
Implementing the 2012 NAWMP Revision:
Implement management actions Adaptively apply HD tools in pilot projects Compile a review of EGS values Develop and implement HD training Compile a synopsis of habitat delivery via HD tools Demonstrate the economic value of waterfowl
conservation
Derive empirical measures of waterfowl hunting Electronic licensing data
Re-vision NAWMP Objectives
WaterfowlPopulations
WaterfowlHabitat
WaterfowlHabitat
WaterfowlHunters/Supporters
Re-vision NAWMP Objectives: IIC propose measurable attributes and draft objectives Waterfowl management community provide input into draft objectives Assign NAWMP Objectives Task Group Task group recommends candidate objectives Solicit stakeholder values Revise NAWMP Objectives
July 2013
July 2013 to March 2014
Oct 2013 to July 2014
July 2014
2014-15
NAWMP Update
July 2013
July 2013 to March 2014
Oct 2013 to July 2014
July 2014
2014-15
NAWMP Update
Anchor Point - Populations:
Premise: Recent populations of most waterfowl species are at desired levels (acknowledging the influence of favorable environmental conditions).
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Draft Objective: Duck populations within the range estimated during 1997-2012 (10 species reported from the Traditional Survey Area, see table below)
Straw-man Objectives for Waterfowl Populations NAWMP Goal: Abundant and resilient waterfowl populations to support hunting and other uses Premise: Recent populations of most waterfowl species have been at desired levels.
Key questions:1. Should objectives more explicitly address populations with increasing
versus declining trends?2. What should the anchor point be for the lower threshold (somewhere
above biological sustainability)?3. To what degree does harvest management serve to achieve population
and people objectives?
Draft Objective: Duck populations within the range estimated during 1997-2012 (10 species reported from the Traditional Survey Area, see table below)
Anchor Point - Supporters:
Premise: Hunter numbers are below desired levels, and public support for conservation is insufficient to sustain current habitat and populations
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NAWMP Goal: Growing numbers of waterfowl hunters, other conservationists and citizens who enjoy and actively support waterfowl and wetlands conservation.
Premise: The current number and demographic of waterfowl hunters may not sustain waterfowling traditions, and overall public support for conservation is insufficient to sustain current habitat and populations.
Draft Objective: Active duck and goose hunter numbers (as measured by federal surveys) that are stable or increasing from average levels during 1997-2012 (corresponds to period used to benchmark range of duck population objectives).
Active duck and goose hunter numbers that are stable or increasing from average levels during 1997-2012.
Stable or increasing numbers of waterfowl viewers, measured by the USFWS National Survey of Fishing, Hunting, and Wildlife-Associated Recreation.
Increasing ( X %) federal duck stamp revenue.
Increase and maintain funding for NAWCA, Conservation Title of the Farm Bill, LWCF, and other waterfowl conservation funding.
Increased nonmarket valuation of EGS of waterfowl habitats and increased recognition by the general public.
Increased numbers of landowners who are participating in habitat conservation programs.
Straw-man “People” Objectives:
Key questions:
1. What is the scale of waterfowl-related users and people-related objectives that should be implemented?
2. To what degree will flyways and joint ventures engage in implementing coordinated management actions and monitoring related to people objectives?
Straw-man “People” Objectives:
Anchor Point - Habitat:
Premise: Habitat – while sufficient today – is not secure and is being lost at an unacceptable rate.
NAWMP Goal: Wetlands and related habitats sufficient to sustain waterfowl populations at desired levels, while providing places to recreate and ecological services that benefit society. Premise: Habitat – while sufficient today – is not secure and is being lost at an unacceptable rate. Draft Objective: Re-assess habitat objectives and actions that are consistent at national and regional/local scales with revised NAWMP population and people objectives.
Continental waterfowl
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Waterfowl Habitat
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Develop, revise or reaffirm NAWMP objectives
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Key questions:
1. How should habitat conservation partnerships consider deploying human dimensions frameworks for habitat?
2. How will coupling NAWMP population and human objectives impact the habitat conservation actions?
3. Which audiences (e.g., waterfowl hunters, viewers, etc.) should be considered priority within different landscapes or across all landscapes?
4. Will funding sources such as NAWCA assist with targeting of habitat according to new objectives (e.g., hunters, viewers, etc.)?
5. To what degree are waterfowl habitat strategies also compatible/consistent with strategies for EGS?
Focus resources on important landscapes:
Identify the most important areas to deliver waterfowl habitat conservation at multiple spatial scales
Desired Outcomes:
Populations:1. Waterfowl populations at biologically sustainable levels
2. Waterfowl populations sufficient to provide for an abundance of use and enjoyment by current and future citizens
People ??
Habitat ??
Challenges to implementation: Budgets and staff capacity are limited
Linkage of human dimensions strategies to population and habitat is not entirely apparent
Think outside of disciplines of harvest or habitat management.
Move beyond personal experience / culture
Constantly communicate status and process
Constantly consider the range of stakeholders
HMWG, 26-28 November Initial IIC meeting, 3-4 December Webinar – 10 January and 7 February Plan Committee during 15-16 January ECNAW - NAWMP and HD special sessions 27- 28 January IIC – 6-8 March in Denver, CO NAWNR Conference – 25-29 March Canadian federal and provincial directors – 7-9 May HD Working Group – 28-31 May IIC develop work plan – 9-11 July Flyways – 15-27 July NSST – 30-31 July NAWMP Committee – 20-22 August
IIC Work Plan
