Marbled Murrelet Suitable Habitat

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.

Marbled murrelet suitable habitat.

Marbled murrelet winter habitat is the same as the nesting and foraging habitat. 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. During the winter marbled murrelets use inland old growth or mature sites for roosting courtship and investigating nest sites. The use of inland lakes during the nonbreeding season occurs in conjunction with visits to nesting areas.

To meet the conservation region s 80 spatial nesting habitat protection target of 77 132 ha flnrord is working towards the protection of an additional 10 931 ha of suitable marbled murrelet nesting habitat in the region primarily through the establishment of new wildlife habitat areas under the provincial forest and range practices act. Although most murrelet nesting habitat on private lands has been eliminated by logging suitable habitat remains on federal and state owned lands. The marbled murrelet is listed as a federal threatened and state endangered species wac 220 610 010 in washington endangered means any wildlife species native to the state that is seriously threatened with extinction throughout all or a significant portion of its range within the state. The precise amount of suitable murrelet habitat within the listed range is unknown.

The effects of gill net mortality on marbled murrelets are currently being investigated by the canadian wildlife service and the department of fisheries and oceans through support from the. Marbled murrelet suitable habitat corporate data campbell river natural resource district landscape unit portions marbled murrelet conservation regions clayoquot sound special management zone excluded non provincially managed land campbell river natural resource district note. Marbled murrelet nesting habitat suitability model for the british columbia coast. The amount of suitable habitat has continued to decline throughout the range of the marbled murrelet primarily due to commercial timber harvest.

This data is an aggregate of predicted suitable habitat from a wide scale algorithm using elevation distance inland forest cover tree height and age as well as two separate regional nesting habitat models.