Marbled Murrelet Recovery Strategy

The marbled murrelet is identified as a species of greatest conservation need sgcn under the state wildlife action plan swap.

Marbled murrelet recovery strategy.

Federal register 57 fr 45328 pdf 1 5 mb critical habitat. Fish and wildlife service. Sgcn classified species include both those with and without legal protection status under the federal or state endangered species programs as well as game species with low populations. This federal recovery strategy identifies critical habitat to the extent possible based on the best available information for marbled murrelet.

Risk and. Marbled murrelet recovery team. Critical habitat gis data. Marbled murrelets are adversely affected by reductions and modifications to late successional forests.

Recovery plan for the threatened marbled murrelet brachyramphus marmoratus in washington oregon and california. The adopted marbled murrelet conservation strategy will protect 59 000 acres of occupied marbled murrelet sites areas where murrelets have been sighted and 58 000 acres of forestland set aside specifically for the bird. Marbled murrelets require late successional forests with specific nest tree characteristics. Habitat loss due to uncharacteristically severe fire is of particular concern in the klamath mountains ecoregion.

Federal register 61 fr 26256. Recovery plan for the marbled murrelet washington oregon and california populations 1997 pdf 15mb. Within this protected forestland there are 78 000 acres of current marbled murrelet habitat. Listing status regulatory documents current recovery plan other recovery documents critical habitat.

Species at risk act. A final recovery plan is in effect. Recovery strategy for the marbled murrelet brachyramphus marmoratus in canada 2014 06 03 the minister of the environment and the minister responsible for the parks canada agency are the competent ministers under sara for the marbled murrelet and have prepared this strategy as per section 37 of sara. The marbled murrelet a small seabird that nests in large conifer trees is a federally threatened species covered by the washington state department of natural resources dnr s trust lands habitat conservation plan hcp.

Dnr has operated under an interim murrelet conservation strategy since the approval of its hcp by the us fish and wildlife service usfws in 1997.