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Platte River Manaaement Joint Studv - Bioloav Report <br />Mr. Craig Faanes <br />Mr. Faanes is a wildlife biologist (ornithology emphasis) with 25 years experience with the US Fish and <br />Wildlife Service. During 1979 -1981, while a Research Wildlife Biologist at the Northern Prairie Wildlife <br />Research Center, Mr. Faanes conducted research on the distribution and habitat use of sandhill cranes in <br />the Platte River Valley; on whooping crane habitat use; on the distribution and abundance of breeding <br />birds in the valley; and conducted the seminal research on piping plover and least tern nesting ecology in <br />central Nebraska (see Faanes, C.A. 1983. Aspects of the nesting ecology of least terns and piping <br />plovers in central Nebraska. Prairie Naturalist 15:145 -154). The research assignment and subsequent <br />work on the Platte River resulted in the publication of 14 papers in scientific journals that dealt primarily <br />with whooping crane ecology, sandhill crane ecology, and other aspects of endangered species ecology <br />on the Platte River. <br />Mr. Faanes was stationed in the Grand Island Nebraska field office of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service <br />from 1987 to 1993 where his principal duties focused on issues affecting endangered species use of the <br />Platte River. A substantial effort was the Charimanship of the Platte River Management Joint Study <br />Biology Workgroup. This involved coordinating the efforts fo 10 to 15 Federal and state agencies, water <br />developers, and the conservation community in developing recommendations on habitat needs (and the <br />distribution of habitat) in the Platte River valley. Mr. Faanes was the principal author of the Biology Report <br />of the Platte River Management Joint Study. Its formation involved input from all of the entities involved <br />with the Platte River. <br />With this background he can provide expert testimony on the ecology of whooping cranes, piping plovers, <br />least terns, sandhill cranes, eskimo curlews and other avian resources. He can also address the history <br />of the Platte River Management Joint Study Biology Workgroup, and provide intimate details on how the <br />Biology Report (and its habitat distribution and flow recommendations) was formulated and finally written. <br />Mr. Faanes can be contacted at (703)358 -2161 x5492. <br />