Lake Mead National Recreation Area Monitoring and Evaluation of Sensitive Wildlife: Quarterly Progress Report, Period Ending June 30, 2009

• Main Author: Rees, Margaret N.
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: Digital Scholarship@UNLV 2009
• Subjects: Desert Ecology; Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; Environmental Indicators and Impact Assessment; Environmental Monitoring; Environmental Sciences; Life Sciences; Physical Sciences and Mathematics; Stacy; peregrine falcon
• Online Access: https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/pli_lake_mead_wildlife/17; https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1016&context=pli_lake_mead_wildlife

Project 1. Relict Leopard Frog Monitoring, Management, and Research All milestones and deliverables associated with the MSHCP project are on schedule Translocation field season has been completed Spring monitoring surveys have been completed Dana Drake, UNLV Research Assistant, has left the project Project 2. Bald Eagle Winter Monitoring and Evaluation All MSHCP milestones and deliverables are on schedule Project 3. Peregrine Falcon Monitoring and Evaluation The MSHCP projects are on schedule for all milestones and deliverables Peregrine falcon monitoring of breeding activities are ongoing and are nearing completion Method testing of active survey methodology has been completed Stacy Crowe was hired under part-time contract to assist with habitat modeling Project 4. Assessment of Six Covered and Three Evaluation Bird Species Project is on schedule for all associated MSHCP milestones and deliverable Thrasher habitat modeling completed Completed compilation of historical location data for targeted songbird species Geodatabase created for data associated with targeted songbird surveys Field surveys initiated for targeted species at historical sites Field surveys conducted for intensive area searches Project 5. Desert Tortoise Monitoring and Management. Efforts for this project have been completed under this task agreement (as modified) Project 6. Shorebird Monitoring on Lakes Mead and Mohave Twenty-four surveys were conducted on eight intensively monitored sites on Lakes Mead and Mohave Project 7. Desert Bighorn Sheep Habitat Use Monitoring in Relation to Highway Development. Data processing and field components were previously completed for this project