Whooping Crane Reintroduction
- Introduction
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- Education Trunk
- If you see a whooping crane...
- Whooping Crane Management Plan
- Your Support Counts!
Related Pages
- Whooping Crane Eastern Partnership (exit DNR)
- Operation Migration (exit DNR)
- International Crane Foundation (exit DNR)
- Important Bird Areas (exit DNR)
- Managing Habitat for Grassland Birds (exit DNR)
- Species & Natural Communities
Whooping Crane Management Plan
The Wisconsin Whooping Crane Management Plan (2006) is a guidance document specific to released and wild-hatched cranes, for use by those individuals and groups charged with maintaining habitat quality, assessing state population goals, monitoring and managing crane activities, addressing landowner interests, developing ecotourism opportunities and education initiatives. The Whooping Crane Eastern Partnership hopes this plan will serve as a template for management plans in other eastern states and provinces. This document is a result of extensive WCEP collaboration between public and private partners.
Whooping Crane group photo
Photo by Arielle Shanahan, USFWS
Whooping Crane management plan (all pages) [PDF 1.9MB]
- Table of Contents [PDF]
- Executive Summary [PDF 100KB]
- Background [PDF]
- Introduction and Purpose [PDF]
- History and Current Distribution [PDF 337KB]
- Recovery Goal and Strategy [PDF]
- Whooping Crane Biology and Ecology [PDF]
- Management and Monitoring, part 1 [PDF 166KB]
- includes Goal, Population Management, and Genetic Diversity - Management and Monitoring, part 2 [PDF 191KB]
- includes Data Management, Monitoring Strategies, and Bird Interventions - Management and Monitoring, part 3 [PDF 657KB]
- includes Health Risks and Mortality and Managing Public, Private Lands, and Nest Site and Territory Management - Compatibility with Existing Management Practices [PDF]
- Education and Outreach [PDF]
- Legal Enforcement [PDF]
- Project Needs [PDF]
- Literature Cited [PDF]
- Appendix 1: Banding, Marking, Radio and Satellite Transmitters [PDF]
- Appendix 2: Whooping Crane Identification in Eastern Migratory Population [PDF 141KB]
- Appendix 3: Genealogy of Eastern Migratory Population [PDF]
- Appendix 4: Capture and Safe Handling of Whooping Cranes [PDF]
- Appendix 5: Health Protocols [PDF]
- Appendix 6: Response Protocols [PDF 840KB]
- Appendix 7: Wisconsin DNR Electronic Data Monitoring Form and Instructions [PDF]
- Appendix 8: 2002-2006 Whooping Crane Location by Wisconsin County and,
GIS Representation of Whooping Crane Presence in Wisconsin [PDF]
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