Presentations:
Missouri Comprehensive Wildlife Conservation Strategy
Arkansas Comprehensive Wildlife Conservation Strategy
Oklahoma Comprehensive Wildlife Conservation Strategy
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Priorities for Ozark National Parks
Heartland Inventory & Monitoring Network, National Park Service
Mark Twain National Forest
Opportunities for Funding Sources and Partnered Research, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Natural Resource Monitoring Partnership, USGS National Biological Information Infrastructure
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Background
In May 2004, resource managers and scientists from the U.S.
Geological Survey (USGS), U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), and
National Park Service (NPS), met in Fayetteville, Arkansas to address
Ozark resource issues of importance to the Department of the
Interior. In addition to identifying key resource issues, participants
recognized the need to work with additional Ozark stakeholders involved
in natural resource research or management.
The First Ozark Summit
The USGS Columbia Environmental Research Center and the Missouri
Chapter of The Nature Conservancy co-hosted the first Ozark Summit May
13 – 15 in West Plains, Missouri. The purpose was to improve Ozark-based
natural resource research and management through active collaboration of
scientists and managers from many agencies. Conservation targets had
already been identified in agency planning documents; we intended to
strengthen existing partnerships and develop new ones by identifying
ways to begin or expand collaborative work on specific topics. The
unifying theme of the first Summit was “Ozark Streams.”
Addressing Shared Ozark Resource Management
Goals
Within the Ozarks, there is significant overlap in the species,
habitats and conservation goals identified in State Wildlife Action
Plans, The Nature Conservancy’s Ozarks Ecoregional Assessment, those
identified by NPS, USFWS and USGS in 2004, as well as other agencies’
planning documents. Tremendous opportunity exists for working together
at geographic locations; sharing monitoring protocols and research
designs, products and results; and developing methods to measure
management action effectiveness.
We hope the first
Ozark Summit can serve as a model for developing Ozark-wide conservation
strategies to benefit a wide stakeholder base for many resource issues.
Planning Team
Arkansas Game and Fish
Commission
Conservation
Federation of Missouri
Missouri Department of
Conservation
The Nature Conservancy, Arkansas Chapter
The Nature Conservancy, Missouri Chapter
U.S. Geological Survey
U.S. Fish and Wildlife
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- aquatic species movement
- riparian habitat and restoration
- recreational fisheries
- water quality and quantity
- partnering projects
Agency Documents
State Agency Wildlife Action Plans
Arkansas
Illinois
Missouri
Oklahoma
The Nature Conservancy
Ozarks Ecoregional Conservation Assessment
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Strategic Habitat Conservation 2006 |
U.S. Department of the Interior |
U.S. Geological Survey