Marbled Murrelet Recovery Strategy

Recovery plan for the marbled murrelet washington oregon and california populations 1997 pdf 15mb.

Marbled murrelet recovery strategy.

Species at risk act. Marbled murrelets require late successional forests with specific nest tree characteristics. This federal recovery strategy identifies critical habitat to the extent possible based on the best available information for marbled murrelet. 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.

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. Federal register 61 fr 26256. Habitat loss due to uncharacteristically severe fire is of particular concern in the klamath mountains ecoregion. Critical habitat gis data.

Marbled murrelets are adversely affected by reductions and modifications to late successional forests. Marbled murrelet recovery team. 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. 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.

Recovery plan for the threatened marbled murrelet brachyramphus marmoratus in washington oregon and california. 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. The marbled murrelet is identified as a species of greatest conservation need sgcn under the state wildlife action plan swap. In 1990 marbled murrelets were designated as threatened by the committee on the status of endangered wildlife in canada once a species is listed as threatened by cosewic a recovery strategy is developed by a recovery team in accordance with guidelines formulated by the recovery of nationally endangered wildlife program renew.

More precise boundaries may be mapped and additional critical habitat may be added in the future if additional research supports the inclusion of areas beyond those currently identified. Federal register 57 fr 45328 pdf 1 5 mb critical habitat. Recovery strategy for the marbled murrelet 2014 2 breeding alternate plumage is a marbled grey brown plumage that provides good. A final recovery plan is in effect.

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