Recovery Plan Ad Hoc Report results
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Document ID=600283| Plan Title | Plan Stage | Plan Lead Region (FWS) | Plan Lead Office (FWS) | Species Common Name | Species Scientific Name | Action Priority | Action Number | Action Description | Action Status | Estimated Initiation Date | Estimated Completion Date | Action Lead Agencies | Responsible Parties | Work Types | Labor Types | Comments | Implementation Activity Number | Implementation Activity Description | Implementation Activity Status | Implementation Activity Estimated Initiation Date | Implementation Activity Estimated Completion Date | Implementation Activity Labor Types | Implementation Activity Work Types | Implementation Activity Responsible Parties | Implementation Activity Comments | Implementation Activity Species |
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| Ringed Sawback Turtle | F | 4 | Mississippi Ecological Services Field Office (601) 965-4900 | Ringed map turtle | Graptemys oculifera | 2 | 1 | Characterize physical parameters of habitat. | Complete | Prior to FY 1995 | FY 1995 - FY 1999 | U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Mississippi Department of Wildlife Conservation, Region 4, Division of Endangered Species, Fish and Wildlife Enhancement | Research: Habitat Status | Contract | All funding estimates are for FWS only. | 1.1 | Established 5 long-term monitoring sites | Complete | Labor type not yet selected | Work type not yet selected | Five long-term monitoring sites were established and have been monitored relatively consistently since the late 1980s. Recent mark-resight surveys have been conducted at these locations by graduate students at the University of Southern Mississippi. | ||||
| Ringed Sawback Turtle | F | 4 | Mississippi Ecological Services Field Office (601) 965-4900 | Ringed map turtle | Graptemys oculifera | 2 | 2.1 | Determine nesting locations and physical description of sites. | Complete | Prior to FY 1995 | FY 1995 - FY 1999 | U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Mississippi Department of Wildlife Conservation, Region 4, Division of Endangered Species, Fish and Wildlife Enhancement | Research: Habitat Requirements | Contract | 2.1 | Reproduction and Nesting Ecology | Complete | Labor type not yet selected | Work type not yet selected | MDWFP conducted reproduction and nesting surveys to document time of gravidity, locate nesting sites, and document nesting activities. Information published by Jones et al. (2006). | |||||
| Ringed Sawback Turtle | F | 4 | Mississippi Ecological Services Field Office (601) 965-4900 | Ringed map turtle | Graptemys oculifera | 2 | 2.2 | Determine nesting requirements and parameters. | Complete | Prior to FY 1995 | FY 1995 - FY 1999 | U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Mississippi Department of Wildlife Conservation, Region 4, Division of Endangered Species, Fish and Wildlife Enhancement | Research: Habitat Status, Research: Habitat Requirements | Contract | 2.2 | Nesting requirements | Partially Complete | Labor type not yet selected | Work type not yet selected | Nesting habitat requirements were identified in 2006 by MDWFP. | |||||
| Ringed Sawback Turtle | F | 4 | Mississippi Ecological Services Field Office (601) 965-4900 | Ringed map turtle | Graptemys oculifera | 2 | 2.3 | Determine effects of environmental changes and of predation on reproductive success. | Partially Complete | Prior to FY 1995 | FY 2010 | U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Mississippi Department of Wildlife Conservation, Region 4, Division of Endangered Species, Fish and Wildlife Enhancement | Research: Population Surveys, Research: Habitat Status, Research: Demographic Studies, Research: Predation | Contract | 2.3 | Nest Predation | Partially Complete | Labor type not yet selected | Work type not yet selected | Nest predation rates were documented at 86%, with an additional 24% of eggs from non-predated nests being predated by invertebrates. | |||||
| Ringed Sawback Turtle | F | 4 | Mississippi Ecological Services Field Office (601) 965-4900 | Ringed map turtle | Graptemys oculifera | 2 | 2.4 | Determine where most of the successful reproduction occurs and the influencing factors. | Partially Complete | Prior to FY 1995 | FY 2024 | U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service | Division of Endangered Species, Fish and Wildlife Enhancement, Mississippi Department of Wildlife Conservation, Region 4, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers | Research: Population Surveys, Research: Habitat Status, Research: Demographic Studies, Research: Predation, Research: Environmental Contaminants | Contract | |||||||||||
| Ringed Sawback Turtle | F | 4 | Mississippi Ecological Services Field Office (601) 965-4900 | Ringed map turtle | Graptemys oculifera | 2 | 3.1 | Determine the food organisms at various life stages and seasons. | Complete | Prior to FY 1995 | FY 2010 | U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service | Division of Endangered Species, Fish and Wildlife Enhancement, Mississippi Department of Wildlife Conservation, Region 4, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers | Research: Habitat Requirements, Research: Demographic Studies | Contract | 3.1 | Diet | Complete | Labor type not yet selected | Work type not yet selected | Published 2023 study documented that ringed map turtles are also primarily freshwater sponge specialists, with some consumption of mollusks and other aquatic insects. | |||||
| Ringed Sawback Turtle | F | 4 | Mississippi Ecological Services Field Office (601) 965-4900 | Ringed map turtle | Graptemys oculifera | 2 | 4.1 | Determine sex ratio, size and age at maturity, age structure, survival rates by sex and age classes. | Partially Complete | Prior to FY 1995 | FY 2020 | U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Mississippi Department of Wildlife Conservation, Region 4, Division of Endangered Species, Fish and Wildlife Enhancement | Research: Demographic Studies | Contract | |||||||||||
| Ringed Sawback Turtle | F | 4 | Mississippi Ecological Services Field Office (601) 965-4900 | Ringed map turtle | Graptemys oculifera | 2 | 4.2 | Estimate number of ringed sawback turtles in each of study reaches. | Ongoing Current | Prior to FY 1995 | FY 2030 | U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service | Division of Endangered Species, Fish and Wildlife Enhancement, Mississippi Department of Wildlife Conservation, Region 4, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers | Research: Demographic Studies | Contract, Graduate Student, Species Expert, Volunteer | 4.2 | Monitoring surveys | Ongoing Current | Labor type not yet selected | Work type not yet selected | Ongoing monitoring of long-term mark-recapture populations are being conducted by graduate students at the University of Southern Mississippi. Populations overall have seemingly declined by 27%, although a select number of sites seem to be increasing. | |||||
| Ringed Sawback Turtle | F | 4 | Mississippi Ecological Services Field Office (601) 965-4900 | Ringed map turtle | Graptemys oculifera | 2 | 4.2 | Estimate number of ringed sawback turtles in each of study reaches. | Ongoing Current | Prior to FY 1995 | FY 2030 | U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service | Division of Endangered Species, Fish and Wildlife Enhancement, Mississippi Department of Wildlife Conservation, Region 4, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers | Research: Demographic Studies | Contract, Graduate Student, Species Expert, Volunteer | 4.2.2 | New River Distribution | Ongoing Current | Labor type not yet selected | Work type not yet selected | New disjunct and naturally occurring population documented in the Tchefunte and Bogue Falaya river system of Lake Pontchartrain Basin in southeast Louisiana. This indicates that the ringed map turtle is no longer endemic to the Pearl River drainage. | |||||
| Ringed Sawback Turtle | F | 4 | Mississippi Ecological Services Field Office (601) 965-4900 | Ringed map turtle | Graptemys oculifera | 3 | 3.2 | Determine physical requirements of the major prey species. | Not Started | U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Mississippi Department of Wildlife Conservation, Region 4, Division of Endangered Species, Fish and Wildlife Enhancement | Research: Habitat Requirements, Research: Other Information | Contract | |||||||||||||
| Ringed Sawback Turtle | F | 4 | Mississippi Ecological Services Field Office (601) 965-4900 | Ringed map turtle | Graptemys oculifera | 3 | 3.3 | Determine how distribution and abundance of major prey species correlates with vigorous turtle populations. | Not Started | U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Mississippi Department of Wildlife Conservation, Region 4, Division of Endangered Species, Fish and Wildlife Enhancement | Research: Population Surveys, Research: Habitat Status, Research: Habitat Requirements, Research: Other Information | Contract | |||||||||||||
| Ringed Sawback Turtle | F | 4 | Mississippi Ecological Services Field Office (601) 965-4900 | Ringed map turtle | Graptemys oculifera | 3 | 5 | Determine activity periods and behavior. | Partially Complete | Prior to FY 1995 | FY 2020 | U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Mississippi Department of Wildlife Conservation, Region 4, Division of Endangered Species, Fish and Wildlife Enhancement | Research: Population Surveys, Research: Other Information | Contract | |||||||||||
| Ringed Sawback Turtle | F | 4 | Mississippi Ecological Services Field Office (601) 965-4900 | Ringed map turtle | Graptemys oculifera | 3 | 6.1 | Protect two river reaches. | Partially Complete | Prior to FY 1995 | FY 2020 | U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Mississippi Department of Wildlife Conservation, Region 4, Law Enforcement, Division of Endangered Species, Fish and Wildlife Enhancement | Management: General, Management: Predator and Competitor Control, Management: Land Use, Other: Law Enforcement, Other: Regulations | Species Expert, Internal Technical Assistance, Internal Field Assistance | |||||||||||
| Ringed Sawback Turtle | F | 4 | Mississippi Ecological Services Field Office (601) 965-4900 | Ringed map turtle | Graptemys oculifera | 3 | 6.2 | Develop and implement a monitoring plan. | Ongoing Current | Prior to FY 1995 | FY 2020 | U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Mississippi Department of Wildlife Conservation, Region 4, Division of Endangered Species, Fish and Wildlife Enhancement | Research: Other Information | Species Expert, Internal Technical Assistance, Internal Field Assistance |