Marbled Murrelet Recovery Strategy

Marbled murrelets are adversely affected by reductions and modifications to late successional forests.

Marbled murrelet recovery strategy.

Risk and. More precise boundaries may be mapped and additional critical habitat may be added in the future if additional research supports the inclusion of areas beyond those currently identified. The marbled murrelet a small seabird that nests in large conifer trees is a federally threatened species covered by the washington state department of natural resources dnr s trust lands habitat conservation plan hcp. Recovery strategy for the marbled murrelet 2014 2 breeding alternate plumage is a marbled grey brown plumage that provides good.

Marbled murrelets require late successional forests with specific nest tree characteristics. This federal recovery strategy identifies critical habitat to the extent possible based on the best available information for marbled murrelet. Within this protected forestland there are 78 000 acres of current marbled murrelet habitat. Recovery plan for the threatened marbled murrelet brachyramphus marmoratus in washington oregon and california.

Fish and wildlife service. Dnr has operated under an interim murrelet conservation strategy since the approval of its hcp by the us fish and wildlife service usfws in 1997. The marbled murrelet is identified as a species of greatest conservation need sgcn under the state wildlife action plan swap. Listing status regulatory documents current recovery plan other recovery documents critical habitat.

Federal register 57 fr 45328 pdf 1 5 mb critical habitat. Federal register 61 fr 26256. In 1990 marbled murrelets were designated as threatened by the committee on the status of endangered wildlife in canada once a species is listed as threatened by cosewic a recovery strategy is developed by a recovery team in accordance with guidelines formulated by the recovery of nationally endangered wildlife program renew. The adopted marbled murrelet conservation strategy will protect 59 000 acres of occupied marbled murrelet sites areas where murrelets have been sighted and 58 000 acres of forestland set aside specifically for the bird.

Marbled murrelet recovery team. Critical habitat gis data. A final recovery plan is in effect. Recovery strategy for the marbled murrelet brachyramphus marmoratus in canada 2014 06 03 the minister of the environment and the minister responsible for the parks canada agency are the competent ministers under sara for the marbled murrelet and have prepared this strategy as per section 37 of sara.

Habitat loss due to uncharacteristically severe fire is of particular concern in the klamath mountains ecoregion.