Fire can be a valuable tool to manage the distribution and composition of vegetation and reopen habitats for Black Rails. Susan McRae Black Rail Management Guidance Document Released The Black Rail Conservation Plan indicates the urgent need to focus habitat work in non-tidal locations where birds are relatively safe from regular flooding [...]
American Black Duck. Hal Trachtenberg Ducks Unlimited Secures Funds for Farm Bill Engineering Technician Ducks Unlimited (DU) was awarded an America the Beautiful Challenge Grant for $348,315 through NFWF to hire a Farm Bill engineering technician. This person will work with DU’s existing Farm Bill Biologist to implement NRCS wetland projects through [...]
Letter from the Coordinator What a year it has been! We have enjoyed the opportunity to meet face to face with our partners again - at meetings, conferences and in the marsh! This year was filled with exciting changes, long-awaited accomplishments and bittersweet goodbyes. Our longest-running and much beloved JV staff member, Craig [...]
Saltmarsh Sparrow survey efforts. Mo Correll Saltmarsh Sparrow Surveys Last summer, partners completed the second year of the 10-year resurvey effort for tidal marsh birds in coastal marshes from Maine to Virginia. Surveys occurred in all 10 states, where technicians revisited survey points originally visited in 2011 – 2014. This is part [...]
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, every NAWCA and National Coastal Wetland Conservation Grant proposal submitted by ACJV partners was funded! Read more about all [...]
From the Coordinator Aimee Weldon, ACJV Coordinator As 2020 bled into 2021, it became clear that pandemic life - remote working, zoom meetings and the longest travel drought most of us have ever experienced in our professional careers - was to continue as the new normal. We have missed dinners out with our [...]
Learn about conservation and restoration activities led by the Partnership for the Delaware Estuary that highlight the interactive nature of monitoring, tool development, and interventions to inform goal-based site management. Presenters Dr. Joshua Moody is the Restoration Programs Manager at the Partnership for the Delaware Estuary. In this role he plans and manages a variety of projects including the [...]
Learn the scientific basis of the UnVegetated-Vegetated marsh Ratio (UVVR), the methods used to derive it, and how it can be used to identify vulnerable marshes and appropriate restoration strategies. We will also demonstrate how to access the data via multiple platforms. Presenter: Neil Ganju is the lead of the Estuarine Processes, Hazards, and Ecosystems project at [...]
Ditch remediation. USFWS/Aimee Weldon A newly approved NAWCA grant will enable The Trustees of Reservations and several partners to restore 916 acres of the Great Marsh, spanning several ownerships, using a combination of innovative, low-impact restoration strategies identified in the ACJV’s Saltmarsh Sparrow Conservation Plan. Restoration strategies include ditch remediation, runneling (digging shallow [...]
Black Rail Conservation Plan The ACJV published the Black Rail Conservation Plan in July 2020. This is the first ever comprehensive plan to conserve Black Rails. The plan lays out six priority strategies needed to achieve a sustainable population of 2,500 breeding pairs of Black Rails. Of particular note is that the plan focuses most [...]
