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Ref. R3-1 Minimum Data Needs being Hypotheses <br />No. Protocol/Activity Description, Responsible Party, and Schedule addressed 13 year Budget Addressed <br /> Determine if prey base Description: Analysis of field information gathered under reference no. 11, <br /> availability limit least tern and 17, 18, 19, 20 and flow information. Also includes a study to watch foraging <br /> piping plover populations terns and plovers to determine foraging rates/distances. Responsible Party: <br /> Program. Schedule: analysis will occur near the end of the first increment <br /> when sufficient information has been collected through implemenation of <br /> above referenced protocols and a protocol has been written to collect data on <br />21 fora in terns and lovers. $130,000 <br /> Whoopin Cranes <br /> Monitor changes in quantity, Description: Analysis of information from whooping crane habitat use (ref no. 1) Wet meadow quantity, distribution, <br /> quality, and distribution of 16) and the post-first increment land cover/use GIS layers (ref no. 6) to and quality. 2) Wet meadow proximity <br /> whooping crane migrational determine the spatial distribution of migrational habitat. Responsible Party. to roosting habitat, isolation <br /> habitat over time. Parameters Program. Schedule: GIS Analysis will occur near the end of the first <br /> will be defined using GIS increment using ortho-rectified photos. <br /> protocols (covered by GIS) <br />22 $0 <br /> Monitor whooping crane Description: Document characteristics of use habitat, monitor activity at use 1) Frequency stopovers, spatial <br /> migrational habitat use. sites and estimate an index of the amount of use. Responsible Party: distribution of use sites, group <br /> Program. Schedule: Monitoring using this protocol begin in 2001. Monitoring composition 2) at use sites collect <br /> will continue annual during the Program. channel width, depth, in-channel <br /> vegetation, discharge at gage, bed <br /> elevation, grain size/distribution, <br /> sandbar elevation, distance to <br />23 disturbance $1,950,000 <br /> Monitor physical and structural Description: All whooping crane use areas are covered as part of Whooping <br /> characteristics of loafing, Crane Use Monitoring Protocol, ref. No. 23. Responsible Party: Program. <br /> foraging, and roosting Schedule: Monitoring using this protocol begin in 2001. Monitoring will <br /> whooping crane migrational continue annual during the Program. <br /> habitat (Covered by habitat <br /> use protocol) <br />24 $0 <br /> Conduct thorough analyses of Description: Review of existing data related to whooping crane habitat used <br /> existing databases to update during migration. Responsible Party: NGPC Schedule: Complete. Report <br /> current understanding of done by Jane Austin and Amy Richert (2001). <br /> whooping crane habitat use <br /> and behavior during migration <br /> (Currently being conducted by <br /> NGPC) <br />25 $0