Great Plains Fish Habitat Partnership

Habitat Assessment

Steven Krentz USFWSScott Roth USFWS

Mission: Creatively Work Together to Conserve Aquatic Resources of Rivers & Streams Throughout the Prairies of the Central United States.

• 10 States• 636,833 square miles area• 2 USFWS Regions• 7 Landscape Conservation Cooperatives• 35 Native American Reservations• 6 Freshwater Ecoregions• 23,629 dams (NID) / 14,130 dams (NABD) • 51,865 Miles of streams and rivers• 405 HUC 8 Watersheds• 520,128 Catchments (HUC 12)

– 3 sq km average catchment• 1,649,391 sq km • Approximately 668 Aquatic Species

Great Plains FHP Species Guilds used for Habitat Assessment

• Central / Northern Headwater Species Guild• Brassy Minnow, Finescale dace, Pearl dace, Plains topminnow

• Southern Headwater Species Guild• Common shiner, Suckermouth minnow

• Turbid River Species Guild• Plains Minnow, Shovelnose sturgeon, Western Silvery minnow,

Sauger, Flathead chub, Shoal chub, Silver chub, Sicklefin chub, Sturgeon chub

• Stonecat / Madtom Guild• Tadpole madtom, Freckled madtom, Slender madtom, Stonecat,

Neosho madtom

• Darter Guild• Iowa darter, Johnny darter, Orange Throat darter, Arkansas darter

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20%

31%

Great Plains FHP Habitat Assessment Catchment Priorities

Lower Priority RestoreProtect

Restore 309,315 sq km 103,370 Catchments

Protect 462,576 sq km 159,950 Catchments

Combined Restoration Catchment Priority for Five Guilds

Combined Protection Priority Catchments for Five Guilds

• Protection/Restoration Priority• Expected Distribution

• Known A. Carp• Potential A. Carp

2010 -2013 Projects Proposed Projects 2014

Great Plains FHP Science and Assessment Team

Maureen Gallagher USFWS

Great Plains States

Plains and Prairie PotholesLandscape Conservation Cooperative

Healthy Habitat = Healthy Fish = Healthy Economies

Great Plains Fish Habitat Partnership

www.fishhabitat.org

www.prairiefish.org

midwestglaciallakes.org

www.reservoirpartnership.org

www.midwestfishhabitats.org