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71st SWCS International Annual Conference July 24-27, 2016 Louisville, KY
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- 1. Mississippi / Gulf Hypoxia Initiative Precision Conservation Blueprint v1.0 Integrating Basin-Wide Challenges from Grassland Birds to Gulf Shrimp Dozens of agencies & organizations in the 7 Landscape Conservation Cooperatives & 3 Climate Science Centers of the Mississippi River Basin Host LCC Contacts: Glen Salmon, Jorgen Rose & Gwen White Michael Schwartz, The Conservation Fund
- 2. America’s Working Heartland Nitrogen in Wells Human Modification Neonictinoid UseTile Drained Crops
- 3. America’s Migratory “Fly-Over” Country Wetland Soils
- 4. America’s Future Productivity Climate Stress Index (blue)
- 5. A crisis is brewing on the prairie … High commodity prices are great for row crop farmers… Not so great for cattle, grassland birds, and pollinators. From 2008-2012, 7.2 million grassland acres were plowed under. These are the highest rates of loss since the Dust Bowl.
- 6. From 2009-2014, Iowa lost 1 of every 8 remaining forest acres converted to crop land …and in the forest, which declined in Iowa for the first time in 40 years …
- 7. …all connected to water quality, recreation and fishery losses upstream and downstream…
- 8. …and loss of ecosystem services that boost agricultural production and resilience. • Pest control • Pollination • Nutrient re/cycling • Soil health • Water quality • Flood/drought mitigation • Carbon sequestration • Biodiversity / genetic resources
- 9. We are making great strides in development and adoption of conservation practices.
- 10. How can we make every dollar count?
- 11. Each Sector prioritizes separately – wildlife, water quality, agriculture, transportation, drinking water, recreation, energy, health… Key locations for water quality Key locations for migratory birds Key locations for agricultural practices US power transmission lines
- 12. What if a “think tank” of natural resource researchers and managers came together to align their actions?
- 13. How can we leverage wildlife conservation to also benefit water quality and agriculture?
- 14. Landscape Design in the Conservation Community What shared outcomes do we want? How will we know when we get there? What physical & social conditions are driving the system? What actions will we emphasize? Where is the greatest opportunity for conservation investment? How do we learn & adapt to future conditions?
- 15. Mission Possible: Restore & Connect Wildlife with People on the Rich Soils of a Functional Working Landscape Must be pragmatic, scalable/regional, collaborative, transparent, and value-added to ongoing restoration efforts! What do we want to accomplish?
- 16. MISSISSIPPI / GULF HYPOXIA INITIATIVE Goal (draft): Provide tools for targeting conservation investments (what, how much, & where) that benefit fish and wildlife in a resilient, multifunctional landscape while also addressing agriculture, local water quality, and Gulf hypoxia.
- 17. #1 Cover Crops #2 Drainage Water Management #3 Two-Stage Ditches #4 Lower Floodplain Vegetative Diversity #5 Buffer Strips #6 Wetlands #7 Upper Floodplain Hydrologic Restoration #8 Lower Floodplain Water Diversion #9 Uplands Prescribed Fire #10 Uplands Grazing #11 Perennial Biomass Production #12 Lower Floodplain Reforestation What to do? – Design and configure 12 high impact conservation practices to enhance multi-sector benefits.
- 18. Prairie STRIPS … reduce nutrient loading, protect soil under intense rainfall & provide pollinator and bird habitat Helmers, et al, Iowa State
- 19. Drainage Water Management … mitigates drought, keeps nutrients in place & provides shorebird habitat
- 20. Perennial Biomass Feedstock for … produce renewable fuel, require fewer nutrient inputs, retain soil & water, sequester carbon, utilize livestock waste, and improve prairie habitat.
- 21. Where to Do It? – Spatial Analysis Tool Precision Conservation Blueprint v.1.0 Michael Schwartz, The Conservation Fund Bottomland Forest in Upper Basin Floodplains
- 22. Focus in the Water Quality priority zone Water Quality Priority Zone – narrower area with highest potential nutrient loads from agriculture using USGS SPARROW model updated for current cropland
- 23. Landscape Scale Conservation Interests Regional Focus Areas Ducks Unlimited Audubon Important Bird Areas Grassland Priority Conservation Areas U.S. Forest Service Joint Venture Focus Areas Upper Mississippi Forest Partnership Bobwhite Conservation Initiative Where are the Overlapping Conservation Interests? Regional Interests Conservation Opp. Areas Outstanding Natural Areas State Wildlife Action Plans (SWAPs) Conservation Opportunity Areas Alabama Nebraska Illinois North Dakota Iowa Ohio Kentucky Tennessee Minnesota Wisconsin Missouri
- 24. Where do existing Watershed Project Areas overlap? Watershed Interests (includes over 500 projects) Regional Examples • Southeast Aquatic Resources Partnership • The Nature Conservancy • US EPA • USDA-NRCS Mississippi River Basin Initiative • USDA-NRCS National Water Quality Initiative • Midwest Fish Habitat Partnership • Gulf Hypoxia Task Force – State Nutrient Reduction Plan Priorities Local Examples • Batture Lands Wetlands Reserve Enhancement Program Project • Big Darby Watershed Initiative • Boone River Watershed Initiative • Cedar River Basin Initiative • Ohio Watersheds in Distress
- 25. In which Pilot Basins should we focus Local Implementation? Pilot Basins - Maximum Alignment Water Quality Priority Zone Conservation Interests Watershed Interests Production Systems Tier 1 (purple): Highest nutrient load potential and implementation interest Tier 2 (green): Creates a corridor with high priority 6 Midwest watersheds contribute over a quarter of the Gulf nutrient load: - Wabash River - Iowa River - Tennessee River - Minnesota River - Illinois River - Des Moines River
- 26. Planning for Site-Scale Opportunities in Pilot Basins (30m) Where Are the Site-Scale Opportunities? Where are the least profitable agricultural lands? Which sites are most conducive to wetland restoration? Which sites can provide highest benefit for water quality? Where Are the Opportunities to Enhance Habitat? Which of these sites are contiguous to existing habitat or a habitat corridor? Data Used in Analyses Land Cover Geophysical Data Tile Drainage Areas Landscape Context
- 27. Next Steps: Down-Scaled Local Pilots Lower Wabash Floodplain – Refuge & Partners Decatur County Comprehensive Plan – Revision Lower Wabash River Decatur County, IN
- 28. Down-scaled Local Pilots Lower Wabash Floodplain Conservation Hosts: US FWS Patoka Natl Wildlife Refuge, Indiana University The Nature Conservancy - Indiana Habitats: Floodplains – forest, wetlands, cane brakes Headwaters – prairie, row crop & grazing lands Goals (draft): 1) Wildlife conservation 2) Nutrient stewardship & soil health 3) Promote connection to nature 4) Adapt to future changes Participants:
- 29. Grassland Opportunities Wetland Potential Forest Opportunities Down-scaled Local Pilots Decatur County, IN Comprehensive Plan Revision
- 30. Next Steps: Applied Research Products (human dimensions implications for marketing and delivering conservation) Lambert, et al Keeler, et al, Univ Minnesota
- 31. Next Steps: Integrating Multi-sector Landscape-Scale Performance Metrics & Models Kling, et al, Iowa State Univ
- 32. QUESTIONS? Project coordinated by Tallgrass Prairie LCC: Glen_Salmon@fws.gov Gwen_White@fws.gov MichaelSchwartz@conservationfund.org Jorgen_Rose@fws.gov Gulf Hypoxia Initiative Site: www.tallgrassprairielcc.org/issue/gulf-hypoxia Data Basin Site: tinyurl.com/MRB-GHI-DataBasin ScienceBase Site: tinyurl.com/MRB-GHI-ScienceBase
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- FORESTRY – Iowa's thirst for new farmland helped drive the loss of 1 of 8 remaining acres of woodlands in just five years, a new federal report shows. It's the first time in nearly 40 years that the state has seen a net loss of forested land. RECREATION – Iowa closed a record number of beaches last summer because of toxic algae blooms that can sicken people and kill pets. DRINKING WATER – Iowa cities spend hundreds of thousands of dollars annually to cut nitrate levels so drinking water is safe for consumers. Des Moines Register -- http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/money/agriculture/2016/07/16/iowa-losing-millions-trees-and-is-hurting-water-quality/87074442/
- - So here is a list of the 12 practices that we currently have sheets for. In some cases the work teams created drafts for these sheets that I simply formatted and recirculated the sheets for comment and then incorporated the feedback into the documents. For other practices I created initial first drafts and then circulated those drafts among the work teams for review and feedback. So this was definitely an iterative process and was a major learning experience for me, and I was lucky that we had such a wide array of experience and the willingness to put in time and effort into these sheets from the work teams.
- This is an example of the type of multi-benefit practice that we’re looking for Most of you are probably familiar with drainage water management, and I am by no means an expert on this specific practice, but at its core it involves installing control structures at strategic points in the tile line so as to control the amount of water retained in a field. This has obvious water quality benefits in that water and sediment containing nutrients stays in the field rather than entering water ways. However there’s also a wildlife benefit in that it creates the ephemeral wetland habitat—mudholes, basically—that the American Golden-Plover and other shorebirds uses as habitat during its impressive migration. There’s also a benefit to agriculture that we cannot overlook in that during a drought year farmers can actively raise the water table in their fields, which really just provides another management capability to a producer’s toolbelt. However, there’s also some risks involved. By keeping water on the fields a few weeks later than they usually would, farmers delay planting. This creates a risk in that, in a worse case scenario, if that area gets a large amount of spring precipitation, that field might not dry out enough to plant. There’s also a limitation in terms of the type of field that can utilize these drainage control structures in that these structures are only effective on fields with less than 1% slope. These are the types of information and considerations that we tried to bring together for each of these practices.
- Prairie STRIPs The total amount of sites available for prairie STRIPs is 44,650 with a total area 489,245.71 acres (Appendix 1, Map 5). The darker areas are the sites that could provide the most habitat for 10% of the row crop land to have a prairie habitat. The average size of the prairie STRIPs is about 10.96 acres, with the smallest being less than .01 acres and the largest is 2,829.09.
- Production system opportunities related to practices
- Over 500 watersheds identified
- Pilot Basins represent opportunities for Maximizing conservation (species) and water quality benefits Provide multiple benefits – multi-sector benefits Representation – Auxiliary Goal Ecological system Production system LCC’s
- Opportunities that benefit species and water quality AND minimize impacts on agricultural production ALL OPPORTUNITIES ARE ON AG LAND All opportunities are classified as to habitat context or lack thereof Lands that may be more suitable for providing other ecosystem services Minimize Impact on Agricultural Production – Target Marginal Cropland – Least profitable Balance provisioning services with supporting and regulating services Richardson – Floodplain denitrification Water Quality Riparian Habitat Forest