**2006 Strategic Action
Plans will be posted soon**
2005 Great Lakes Basin Ecosystem Team Strategic
Action Plans. . . . 2004
Team Plans
The Free Adobe Acrobat is required to view pdf
files -
link to download.
Lake Sturgeon Restoration and Management (pdf-97
Kb)
- Focus on developing and implementing a Lake Sturgeon
Rehabilitation Plan for the Great Lakes
- Host Lake Sturgeon Coordiantion Meetings to foster communication
and exchange of information relating to the study, management, and
restoration of lake sturgeon in the Great Lakes basin
- Continue development and maintenance of the web-accessible
Great Lakes Lake Sturgeon Tributary Inventory Database and GIS map
that compiles available lake sturgeon data sources to help focus and
coordinate restoration and research activities on priority lake sturgeon
waters
- Develop a web-accessible Lake Sturgeon Tagging Database that will
facilitate communication between taggers and those that encounter tagged
sturgeon throughout the Great Lakes
- Update and maintain the Great Lakes Lake Sturgeon Web Site (http://midwest.fws.gov/sturgeon)
established to provide focus for lake sturgeon restoration and management
activities
throughout the Great Lakes basin
- Continue partnerships with commercial
fishermen to collect information on lake sturgeon throughout the Great
Lakes
- Improve the knowledge base for lake sturgeon genetics
Great Lakes Islands Protection (pdf-62
Kb)
- Expand binational collaborative dedicated to addressing
the issue of Great Lakes islands conservation
- Demonstrate the importance of Great Lakes islands
- Develop a Strategic Action Plan for conservation of Great Lakes islands
- Increase multi-partner coordination and involvement in islands issues
- Identify primary threats to island biodiversity
- Identify island biodiversity investment areas
- Provide general information on Great Lakes islands to a wide sector
of the general public via the web site
- Support Service and/or conservation partner island property acquisition
Geographic Information System/Decision Support System Development (GIS/DSS)
2004
Plan (pdf-68
Kb)
- Identify and summarize Great Lakes basin issues that
can be addressed using geospatial technologies
- Inventory existing geospatial capabilities and data
- Distribute pilot decision support system to the field stations for
feedback
- Implement geospatial technologies throughout the Great Lakes basin
- Maintain and update information and the capabilities of the decision
support sytstems
- Assist other committees and programs within the Service and their
partners with development of geospatial technologies to achieve their
long-term outcomes
- As a new committee, establish workgroup members, goals, and objectives
- Strengthen the Service's Coastal Program in the Great Lakes
- Coordinate activities within the other GLBET sub-committees
- Increase and improve coordination with external pertner's coastal
programs and habitat restoration programs
- Increase outreach to Congressional members on coastal resources
- Provide education to the public regarding the values of coastal resources
- Provide input to the Corps of Engineers on the potential impacts
of the Great Lakes Navigation Improvement Project, water level study
on Lake Ontario
- As a new committee, develop a core committee and agree on
general mission
- Identify 1-2 habitat focus area priorities and develop conservation
strategies for priority focus areas
- Ensure all listed species have a recovery plan and that all candidate
species have some form of conservation plan
- Assist with 5-year status reviews
- Develop priority messages and activities which
will inform about team projects and team outreach efforts
- Survey key stakeholders on their needs and priorities for the team
and for Great Lakes basin issues
- Develop key messages to communicate Great Lakes conservation and
GLBET activities
- Develop a concept/outline for a long-term communications campaign
- Provide a suite of products such as brochures, videos, fact sheets,
etc.
- Provide increased participation and support for Great Lakes basin
issues to the media, Congress, other key stakeholders, and within
our group
|
