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Ref. R3-1 Minimum Data Needs being Hypotheses No. Protocol/Activity Description, Responsible Party, and Schedule addressed 13 year Budget Addressed Determine whooping Description: This study will analyze data collected from species use 1) Wet meadow quantity, distribution, crane/tern/plover habitat protocols to determine the relationship between the use of restored/managed proximity to roosting habitat, ground response to site-specific areas (including management and restoration techniques) with flow data, land water hydrology, and quality. 2) restoration activities. Species use/cover data (program land use), population data, and other data. Channel width, depth, vegetation, will be targeted by specific Responsible Party: Program. Schedule: Monitoring and research activities unobstructed view. 3) sandbar protocols. will begin after Program restoration activities have been implemented. vegetation, elevation, mid-channel, quantity and distribution. 4) WC disturbance factors and proximity to forage habitat. 5) Proximity to tern and plover forage habitat. 6) Sandpit quantity and distribution 26 $300,000 Determine factors affecting Description: This study will analyze data collected from whooping crane whooping crane distribution migrational use protocol (ref. no. 23) and other whooping crane use and habitat use in the central information to determine the relationship in spatial use patterns with flow data, Platte River valley (Determined Land use/cover data (program land use), and population data. Responsible using monitoring data) Party: Program. Schedule: Analysis will occur near the end of the first increment after sufficient data have been collected through whooping crane use monitoring protocol, other studies, and as part of the GIS analysis. 27 $0 Determine relationships Description: This will be a more refined and site specific investigation on wet befinreen river stage and wet meadow hydrology based on information from the COHYST/other studies of meadow hydrology for wet meadows at various distances from the river. Responsible Parly: whooping crane habitat Program. Schedule: Research will be conducted when suitable wet meadow sites are protected or restored on Program lands. 28 $100,000 Determine relationships Description: Research being conducted on existing wet meadows within the between wet meadow central Platte region. Responsible Party. USGS. Schedule: Field work has hydrology and the physical, been completed and report is being written by Jane Austin. biological, and chemical composition of wet meadows for whooping crane habitat. 29 $0 Determine relative importance, Description: This study will analyze data collected from whooping crane quality, quantity, and migrational use protocol (ref. No. 23) to look at use (i.e., importance) of all distribution of wet meadows habitat types. Responsible Party. Program. Schedule: Analysis will be and other semi-aquatic conducted during the Program (e.g., near the end of the first increment) when habitats to migrating sufficient data have been collected on whooping crane use. whooping cranes in the 30 central Platte valle . $p Determine the importance of Description: Program needs feedback on the relative importance of the Platte whooping crane habitat along River when considered with all sites along the migrational corridor. the central Platte River to the Responsible Party: USFWS Schedule: On-going. Part of NAS review. recovery of the species 31 $0