Carbon - Emery
- Next Meeting: Summer Field Tour - Date TBA. Contact Todd Black at 770-9302 or todd.black@usu.edu if you have any questions.
- Tentative Meetings for 2010 are planned on the following dates and times;
February meeting—Tuesday 2/10/2010 @ 5:00 PM at the UDWR/NR building Price River Dr., Price
At this meeting participants:
1-review and report on implemented actions and strategies for the previous year
2-discuss and plan lek count/search needs
3-schedule, coordinate and plan summer events
May/June summer field tour TBA
August meeting—Tuesday 08/10/2010 @ 5:00 PM at the UDWR/NR Building Price River Dr., Price
At this meeting participants:
1-plan, discuss, and coordinate various actions and strategies
2-state wide/range wide sage-grouse issues
3-report on any LWG sage-grouse research
November meeting—Tuesday 11/9/2010 @ 5:00 PM at the UDWR/NR Building Price River Dr., Price
At this meeting participants:
1-review and revise the LWG plan
2-schedule, coordinate and plan
To be placed on mailing list and or for specific meeting location and times please contact: Todd A. Black, CBC EXT Specialist, cell 435-770-9302 or todd.black@usu.edu
Castle Country Sage-grouse Conservation Plan
A note about the CaCoARM plan:. This is an adaptive plan, it will be reviewed annually and therefore is likely to be amended, changed, updated, and reported upon but it will not be ignored and just put on the shelf as a monumental accomplishment of those involved.
Sage-grouse Conservation Plan December 2006
Reports
- 2008 Annual Report of USU Research Study
- 2006-7 Accomplishment Report, Castle Country Section
- 2005 Draft Report by Brad Crompton (UDWR). The sage-grouse of Emma Park - survival, production, and habitat use in relation to coalbed methane development.
- 2010 Chris Perkin's Defense Powerpoint Presentation (pdf file). Ecology of Isolated Greater Sage-grouse Populations Inhabiting the Wildcat Knolls and Horn Mountain, Southcentral Utah. March 31, 2010.
Minutes:
Wildcat Knoll and Horn Mountain: A Castle Country LWG Flagship Project
By Chris Perkins
The Castle Country Adaptive Management Local Working Group (CCARM) was formed in 2006 to address concerns regarding local
sage-grouse populations in Carbon and Emery Counties. In Utah, greater sage-grouse currently inhabit < 50 % of their historic range. Currently, little is known about greater sage-grouse ecology and populations on the Wildcat Knolls and Horn mountain sites. Previous data collection efforts have included monitoring male attendance on local leks since 1991. CCARM conservation goals for this include obtaining estimates of sage-grouse lek attendance, distribution, habitat-use patterns, and the factors affecting production, and survival.
Chris Perkins, a graduate research assistant in Jack H. Berryman Institute, the Department of Wildland Resources at Utah State University, began capturing male and female sage-grouse and fitting them with radio-collars in spring 2008. Over the next two years, these birds will be monitored to determine habitat-use, nesting and brood-rearing success, survival, sources of mortality, seasonal movement patterns, and male lek fidelity.
This research will provide CCARM, Canyon Fuel Company (CFC), the U.S. Forest Service, and the Utah Division of Wildlife with information to guide management actions to enhance habitat conditions for the greater sage-grouse populations that inhabit the Wildcat Knolls and Horn Mountain areas of Carbon and Emery Counties.
Biographies
Chris Perkins is currently a M.S. student in the Wildland Resources Department at Utah State University. Chris received a B.S. degree in Wildlife Science from Utah State University in the spring of 2006. Chris’s current research interests include reproductive ecology, human wildlife conflict, understanding public perceptions of sage-grouse and public lands, and developing innovative methods of habitat management. Chris presently lives in Logan Utah. Chris can be contacted at:c.j.perk@aggiemail.usu.edu
Natasha Gruber was born and raised near Big Birch Lake in Minnesota. She received her B.S. degree in wildlife biology from Minnesota State University Moorhead. After graduating, she spent a year in the Dominican Republic teaching kids to read and write in Spanish. She then came back to the U.S. and did multiple wildlife technician jobs in Minnesota (painted turtles, wild turkeys, prairie chickens, and ruffed grouse), North Dakota (prairie dogs and yellow-headed blackbirds), Texas (northern bobwhite quail), Colorado (greater sage-grouse and sharp-tails), and Utah (black-footed ferrets, pika, big-horned sheep, and sage-grouse). Currently, Natasha is a MS student in the Wildland Resources Department at Utah State University. She is studying the population dynamics and habitat uses of translocated and resident greater-sage grouse on Anthro Mountain in northwestern Utah. Natasha’s research interests include: sensitive wildlife species management and conservation, wetland bird species, and using genetics as a management tool. Natasha can be contacted at: natasha.gruber@gmail.com.
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