Let’s talk fire—prescribed fire to be exact. Prescribed fire is a well-planned and organized effort that takes into consideration many human, weather, and equipment factors. In contrast, burning garbage behind your house is not a prescribed fire . . .
Read MoreHighlights of the day included establishing and managing young shortleaf stands. Led by Jason Ellis of the Texas Forest Service, experienced foresters and wildlife biologists described techniques and applications that have been successful and also shared less successful applications that were learning events and should be avoided in future efforts. Mike Black, Director of the Shortleaf Initiative, provided a great deal of insight from experiences with SLP around the Southeast.
Read MoreThe Tri-state Conservation Partnership (TCP) is celebrating the November 3 announcement of a $5M award for its FY22 Wetland Reserve Enhancement Partnership (WREP) project proposal.
Read MoreThe Hurricane Lake WMA Glaise Creek Enhancement II Standard NAWCA project is the second critical phase of a multi-phase effort aimed at the protection, restoration and enhancement of critical wetland habitats on public lands in the MAV.
Read MoreThe Tri-state Conservation Partnership (TCP) continues to work in support of habitat management and Desired Forest Conditions for Wildlife (DFCW) through collaboration and coordination with the forest products industry and wood suppliers in the MAV.
Read MoreThe 2022 Southeast Blueprint will use a consistent set of methods and input data across the entire Lower Mississippi Valley Joint Venture region.
Read MoreChanging how an entire county thinks about wildlife habitat and management is happening one family at a time in Cass County, TX, led by families like the Weerts. Read about their award-winning shortleaf pine restoration and habitat management.
Read MoreGTR renovations will be completed across 16 Arkansas WMAs, and management plans will be revised to provide a more natural flooding and flow regime by:
· delaying intentional flooding each year until after mid-November to prevent extra stress that trees experience from floodwater before they are fully dormant;
· incorporating flexibility in water management to allow year-to-year variability and a more cyclical five- to seven-year flood cycle.
Read MoreLike his grandfather and father before him, Mr. Failing has dedicated his life to farming in the fertile Mississippi Delta.
But fall 2020 marked only his third year of creating temporary habitat for bird migration.
Read MorePlease be on the lookout for banded adult and juvenile Tricolored Herons and White Ibis, particularly if you are in Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Florida. These birds have been banded on their breeding colonies in Mobile Bay, Alabama in 2021 and the USGS Florida Cooperative Fish & Wildlife Research Unit conducting the research would like to learn more about their wintering areas and migration routes!
Read MoreThe AR-LA Conservation Delivery Network Open Pine Landscape Restoration partnership proposes to advance the recovery of species of conservation concern by implementing Desired Forest Condition management practices across 30,000 acres of private lands in Arkansas and Louisiana. American Bird Conservancy and 19 partners plan to use several innovative tools and approaches to target conservation funds to lands critical for the protection of species such as Northern Bobwhite, Henslow’s and LeConte’s sparrows, Louisiana Pine Snake, and Red-cockaded Woodpecker.
Read MoreWe offer this update on the BHNU reintroduction in Missouri undertaken by the Central Habitat Joint Venture (CHJV) using “our” birds from the Arkansas Ouachitas!
Read MoreThe Texas Longleaf Implementation Team has been named a 2021 Conservation Wrangler by Texan by Nature!
Read MoreStrength of partnership within the LMVJV is evidenced once again through the Natural Resources Conservation Service’s (NRCS) recent award of Wetland Reserve Enhancement Partnership (WREP) projects within the Mississippi Alluvial Valley (MAV). The NRCS has added to past projects by approving an additional 15,000 acres over the next four years in the MAV, totaling more than $46M in WREP awards and match.
Read MoreThe USDA-NRCS has been advancing protocols for formal management of WRP/WRE (Wetland Reserve) easements in Texas. The inclusion of the Desired Forest Conditions for Wildlife (DFCW), a process document developed by the LMVJV, is now making its mark on private lands of the West Gulf Coastal Plain in Texas.
Read MoreA full revision of the LMVJV’s “Restoration, Management, and Monitoring of Forest Recourses in the Mississippi Alluvial Valley: Recommendations for Enhancing Wildlife Habitat,” much better known as Desired Forest Conditions for Wildlife (DFCW), is now underway.
Read MoreArkansas recently enjoyed a visit from United States congressmen French Hill and Bruce Westerman. The congressmen met in October with representatives from the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission and Ducks Unlimited at Henry Gray Hurricane Lake WMA to talk about the future of green timber management and duck hunting. The meeting focused on the dire situation within the WMA’s greentree reservoir and the deadening of habitat caused by excessive annual flooding during the last decade.
Read MoreOn Nov 3rd, the Tri-state Conservation Partnership (TCP) submitted a funding proposal to the NRCS for Phase III of it’s Tri-state Wetland Reserve Enhancement Partnership (WREP) project. The project is titled, “Restoring Forested Wetlands within Mississippi Alluvial Valley Priority Focal Areas in AR, LA and MS”. The Phase III proposal is requesting $19.5M in NRCS funding with four match partners committing an additional $1M or 27% of the total estimated direct restoration cost for the project.
Read MoreThe AR-LA Conservation Delivery Network (CDN) worked constantly from August through November 2020 to plan, prepare, and submit a substantial Regional Conservation Partnership Program (RCPP) proposal. The submission was completed just before Thanksgiving through the American Bird Conservancy. We provide the Executive Summary here.
Read MoreAn internship is available to develop a Louisiana Waterthrush habitat suitability model for the LMVJV.Qualified graduate students are encouraged to apply before 15 January.Begins Spring/Summer 2021.
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