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agreements). • Partial observability: uncertainty about resource status, inability to see the system. Program monitoring and research need to consider these sources of uncertainty and attempt to reduce, eliminate, or account for them in analyses and management decisions. However, the expected likelihood and costs of reducing uncertainty, and the expected benefit in terms of improved management decisions, will also be considerations when prioritizing monitoring and research projects. Of these major sources of uncertainty, partial controllability or implementation uncertainty is perhaps the largest issue in the Program (i.e. the land and water `treatments' are uncertain at the Program and System scales). The AMP recognizes the contingent nature of various hypothesis tests and the importance of prioritizing monitoring and research activities based on these contingencies. The following is a preliminary AMP for the Platte River Recovery Implementation Program (Program) and is a product of the Adaptive Management Working Group (AM Working Group) described in Section I.A. of this plan. This AMP is a strategic document that provides a framework for plans that will describe the adaptive management activities to occur. This AMP is dynamic and will be finalized before implementation of the Program and may change throughout the First Increment of the Program. The process for changing the AMP is also described in Section I.G. of this plan. I.A. Program Goals and Program Objectives The Program's long-term goals and First Increment goals and objectives are stated in the Program Document Section II and Section III.A.3.a.and b. The First Increment objectives include the protection, and where appropriate, restoration of 10,000 acres of habitat for the three avian target species and provide water capable of reducing shortages of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) target flows by an annual average of 130,000 to 150,000 acre-feet. The 10,000 acres of habitat identified as one of the First Increment objectives will initially include 9,200 acres that approximate or have the potential to approximate through restoration, habitat complex characteristics described in Table 1 of the Land Plan; and, up to 800 acres of habitat that have or have the potential to have the characteristics of non-complex habitat described in Table 2 of the Land Plan (Program Attachment 4). Program goals and objectives will be achieved as a combination of individual land and water actions (e.g., individual water projects, individual land acquisitions) implemented over the First Increment. These actions are considered treatments applied to the associated habitats resulting in some desired response by target species and/or their habitats (Figure 2). The Program's approach to reducing shortages to target flow and the protection and restoration of land are described in the Water Plan (Attachment 5 of the Program) and Land Plan (Attachment 4 of the Program), respectively. These plans are subject to change by the Governance Committee based on learning through adaptive management. I.B. General Concept of the Program's Adaptive Management The Program objectives (see Section I.A. above) can only be modified through formal amendment of the Program and not as a part of the AMP. Individual land and water September 1, 2006 Adaptive Management Plan