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 [...]
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 [...]
The goal of Joint Venture planning efforts is to inform and catalyze conservation on the ground. With our partners, we are actively pursuing opportunities to accelerate implementation projects that address the highest priority plan objectives at a regional scale. Over the past year, our plans have helped to bring in several large grants. The past two [...]
American Black Duck Conservation Plan The American Black Duck was once the most abundant dabbling duck in eastern North America. Black duck populations began declining steadily in the 1950s and reached an all-time low by the 1980s, having lost more than half of their historical population. Populations have stabilized since then, but they remain below [...]
Red Knot. USFWS The Georgia Dept of Natural Resources (GADNR), with many conservation partners, is in the process of protecting 26,278 acres of salt marshes, tidal creeks, freshwater wetlands, maritime forests, and longleaf pine and wiregrass savannah in coastal Georgia. Located just across the Intracoastal Waterway from Cumberland Island National Seashore, Cabin Bluff [...]
The Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources is working with partners to permanently protect 8,884 acres of land--the largest privately-held land holding--on the Eastern Shore of Virginia. The Delmarva Peninsula is a hemispherically-significant region that supports migratory stopover habitat for millions of birds each year. Newly protected land on the Delmarva Peninsula. VADWR Heralded [...]
