Whooping Crane Reintroduction
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Whooping Crane Management Plan
Wisconsin Whooping Crane Management Plan Adopted!
The Wisconsin Natural Resources Board unanimously approved the Wisconsin Whooping Crane Management Plan (in press, Dec 2006). Development of the Management Plan was led by Beth Goodman, Wisconsin Whooping Crane Coordinator at the Department of Natural Resources with help from Joel Trick (USFWS) and Mike Putnam (ICF). The Plan includes critical contributions from many people in the Whooping Crane Eastern Partnership. This 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 30KB]
- Executive Summary [PDF 100KB]
- Background [PDF 16KB]
- Introduction and Purpose [PDF 15KB]
- History and Current Distribution [PDF 337KB]
- Recovery Goal and Strategy [PDF 82KB]
- Whooping Crane Biology and Ecology [PDF 89KB]
- 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 18KB]
- Education and Outreach [PDF 26KB]
- Legal Enforcement [PDF 28KB]
- Project Needs [PDF, 22KB]
- Literature Cited [PDF 37KB]
- Appendix 1: Banding, Marking, Radio and Satellite Transmitters [PDF 12KB]
- Appendix 2: Whooping Crane Identification in Eastern Migratory Population [PDF 141KB]
- Appendix 3: Genealogy of Eastern Migratory Population [PDF 85KB]
- Appendix 4: Capture and Safe Handling of Whooping Cranes [PDF 42KB]
- Appendix 5: Health Protocols [PDF 25KB]
- Appendix 6: Response Protocols [PDF 840KB]
- Appendix 7: Wisconsin DNR Electronic Data Monitoring Form and Instructions [PDF 67KB]
- Appendix 8: 2002-2006 Whooping Crane Location by Wisconsin County and,
GIS Representation of Whooping Crane Presence in Wisconsin [PDF 26KB]
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