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V. Spring 2001 Costs <br />The cost of field implementation by AIM Environmental Consulting was <br />approximately $57,500 for groundwork and report. The analysis report cost for the <br />Executive Director's office was approximately $9,500. <br />VI. Recommended Changes for Future Implementation of the Protocol <br />VLA. Aerial Flight Recommendations <br />1. Fly aerial surveys at 500 feet altitude, as safety allows. <br />2. Alternate the direction each survey leg is flown. <br />3. Continue using distance bands in an effort to define the area visually surveyed. <br />- Increase the precision of flight height with the use of GPS. <br />4. Fly each .upland flight transect in-sequential order, keeping the order after a flight day <br />has been missed. <br />VI.B. Ground Monitoring Recommendations <br />1. Increase ground presence to locate `possible' whooping crane sightings identified by <br />the aerial crew. <br />2. Follow -up every possible whooping crane sighting by the aerial crew, standardize and <br />document the effort expended by the ground crew trying to confirm each sighting. <br />3. Develop protocol to standardize the determination of a `new' crane group sighting. <br />VI.C. Habitat Data <br />1. Document how each crane location was found (i.e. aerial flight, ground crew, public). <br />2. Develop protocol to determine when a crane group has moved to a new location. <br />3. Document when each observer arrives at and departs from a crane use location or <br />crane group. <br />4. Document UTMs of each endpoint of each profile transect. <br />5. Measure sandbar elevations using transit or survey grade GPS. <br />VI.D. Searcher Efficiency <br />1. Maintain records of decoy detection by flight crew separately from Whooping Crane <br />detections. <br />2. Stratify sampling into upland and channel strata, and give each strata equal effort so <br />that searcher efficiency estimates can be made for each strata. <br />Spring 2001 Whooping Crane Survey Report 6 <br />11/19/01 <br />