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Alternative Management Actions <br />• Predator management at known nesting sites <br />- Measure of success = increased fledge rates <br />• Work with sandpit operators to make pits better <br />habitat <br />- Measure of success = increase acres of nesting <br />substrate, use of the azea by birds, increase in total <br />number of adults aad young produced in Platte Valley <br />• Make older pits habitat again <br />- Measure of success = use of area by birds, increase in <br />total number of adults and young produced in Platte <br />Valley <br />• Restore drained or filled wetlands <br />- Measure of success = net gain weUand acres, use by <br />whooping cranes(I-Iow do we measure increased fitness <br />of whooping cranes?) <br />• Creation of wetlands in areas of shallow <br />ground water <br />- Measure of success = net gain in wedaad acres, use by <br />whooping cranes <br />• Purchase and protect any remaining native <br />grasslands <br />- Rare land cover type important ro other species <br />• Cleaz trees and mechanically manipulate <br />banks to create wetted widths of at least 500 <br />feet <br />- Measure of Success = achieving channel width, use by <br />whooping cranes <br />• Experimental Island leveling <br />- In azeas of documented degradation <br />- Techniques need to be developed <br />- Measure of success = bed aggredation, increase in <br />c6aanel width, island development, use by the <br />whooping cranes, least tems, piping plovers <br />9