Letter from the Coordinator The past year has been another banner year for coastal marsh and flagship species conservation. Funding resources offered through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and the Inflation Reduction Act continued to support significant coastal marsh restoration and coastal resiliency work - benefits that extend well beyond birds to fish, communities [...]
Coastal Marsh Restoration: An Ecosystem approach for the Mid-Atlantic In 2024 we co-authored a document with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA) and partners within the US Fish and Wildlife Service to address and highlight shared goals for ecosystem restoration to benefit coastal marsh organisms including (but not limited to) our flagship species. [...]
NAWCA Grants Benefit Black Duck American Black Duck benefits greatly–perhaps more than any other species–from our partners’ NAWCA grant projects in the ACJV. Maine, which contains high-quality breeding habitat as well as staging and wintering habitat (along the coast) has seen tremendous NAWCA-related accomplishments in recent years. The latest projects approved in Maine will [...]
It Was a Great Year for Salt Marsh Conservation Funding! Several new or ongoing grants were secured to assist ACJV partner efforts to conserve land, implement restoration projects, and test promising management actions outlined in our conservation plans. For the third year in a row, we expect that every National Coastal Wetland Conservation Grant [...]
Black Rail Adaptive Management Project The ACJV and U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), with support from East Carolina University, are engaged with partners in a multi-year collaborative project to develop an adaptive management framework to evaluate two approaches to habitat management for Black Rails. The first approach involves assessing the relative effects of fire and [...]
Letter from the Coordinator The past year has been a banner year for salt marsh conservation. With the release of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and the Inflation Reduction Act, coastal resiliency projects have received unprecedented attention and financial support. Salt marsh restoration is critical to achieving a wide range of coastal resiliency goals. [...]
Recommendations for Monitoring Saltmarsh Sparrows on Salt Marsh Restoration Projects Saltmarsh Sparrow Restoration Monitoring Guidance This year the ACJV worked with the Saltmarsh Habitat and Avian Research Program, the USFWS Coastal and Migratory Bird Programs, and Ducks Unlimited to develop guidance for monitoring Saltmarsh Sparrows at restoration sites. This document includes suggestions [...]
Assessing Microtopography with Drones Understanding the microtopography of Black Rail habitat is critical to the design and creation of new habitat for the species; a difference in just a few centimeters of water can determine whether a Black Rail will use a certain area or avoid it completely. Field work to characterize microtopography and [...]
Homepage of the Black Duck Decision Support Tool Black Duck Decision Support Tool is Done! At long last, the American Black Duck Decision Support Tool (created by our partners at Ducks Unlimited) is up and running and available on our website here! This tool prioritizes areas for conservation and restoration to support [...]
ACJV Project Inventory Homepage It’s time to enter your coastal marsh projects into the ACJV Project Inventory. This inventory catalogs efforts across the Atlantic coast to conserve or restore habitat for Saltmarsh Sparrow, Black Rail and American Black Duck. The inventory provides a central hub of information for all on-the-ground conservation efforts [...]
