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Bureau of Reclamation Research Needs
TITLE: Inventory of Endangered,
Threatened and Rare
Plant and Animal Species Within the Loup Rivers Basin - a
Biodiversity Project
SUBMITTING BUREAU: Bureau of Reclamation
Originating Office: Great Plains Regional Office
DATE SUBMITTED: April 7, 1995
FY 98 PRIORITY: Central Region Need Met, No additional work is
anticipated or required on this BIN.
FY 97 PRIORITY: Central Region 6
FY 96 PRIORITY: Midcontinent Region 8
BRD REGION: Central
DESCRIPTION OF NEED: This is a 2-year project to document the
diversity and presence of endangered, threatened and rare plant
and animal species and their habitat use within the Loup Rivers
drainage basin. Data to be gathered include identification of
habitat types, inventory/survey of rare species and their
habitat, documenting occurrences of rare species, collecting
baseline data, developing GIS resource layers and transcribing
data into a biological conservation database.
MANAGEMENT PROBLEM WITH NEED: A large number of species on the
Nebraska Heritage Program's list of rare plants and animals are
of known or possible occurrence within this drainage basin. Such
species as the interior least tern, whooping crane, prairie
fringed orchid, piping plover, American burying beetle,
endangered river otter, redbelly dace, pearl dace, and blacknose
shiner are known to occur in the area. Data for such species are
either fragmented or lacking.
BUREAU CONTACT: Jill Manring (308)-389-4557
BRD PRIMARY CENTER: MESC
BRD CENTER CONTACT: Duane Asherin
RESULTS OF BRD-INITIATED COMMUNICATION:
This BIN was discussed by Duane and Jill on
9/3/96. Jill believes this BIN was submitted to the Great Plains
Regional Office in Billings, MT in 1995. Because of pending data
needs for EIS and EA work, the BOR funded this work through the
Nebraska Game and Parks Commission and they are doing the
aquatic/fisheries studies. The Commission subcontracted the
remainder of the work to the University of Nebraska-Kearney for
the remaining animal and plant inventories and database
development. The first progress report is due in December 1996
and BRD-MESC will receive a copy.
DATE SUBMITTED TO REGIONAL OFFICE: September 3, 1996
PREPARED BY: Duane A. Asherin (970/226-9402)
duane_asherin@usgs.gov
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