FORT PECK TRIBES’ MANNING LAKE WETLAND COMPLEX …
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FORT PECK TRIBES’ MANNING LAKE WETLAND COMPLEX
AND TRIBAL WILDLIFE REFUGE
Jeanne Spaur Wetland Coordinator/Non-game Biologist
EPA National Tribal Water Quality Conference November 15. 2011
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Open water: 452 ac
Cropland: 1, 200 ac
Grasslands: 12, 517 ac
Total : 21, 204 acres
Emergent wetland: 7,035 ac
Complex consists of:
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Wetland Complex Provides: reproduction and stopover sites for thousands of waterfowl, migratory birds, songbirds, and other species of conservation concern
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1. Designation of Tribal Wildlife Refuge
2. Development of water quality monitoring methods
3. Determine hydrologic functionality
4. Development of habitat and wildlife species monitoring strategies
Provide baseline information to help monitor condition and health of the ecosystem
Link between WQ and health of habitat and inhabitants
PROTECTION, MANAGEMENT, & RESTORATION OF COMPLEX THROUGH….
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1. DESIGNATION of REFUGE:
All Tribal land within 4,882 acre boundary
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17%
35%
48%
Fee
Tribal
Allotted
640 acres
1285 acres
1760 acres
Refuge Ownership
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Temperature pH Dissolved oxygen Conductivity Salinity Depth Invertebrates Nitrates
2. WATER QUALITY MONITORING
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3. DETERMINING HYDROLOGIC FUNCTIONALITY
• Establish evaporation rate-class A evaporation pan • Determine surface and ground water interactions- shallow 2” observation wells piezometers surface water monitoring locations
• Establish precipitation rates-tipping bucket rain gauge next to the evaporation pan.
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4. DEVELOPMENT OF HABITAT AND WILDLIFE SPECIES MONITORING STRATEGIES
Percent primary cover type Vertical vegetation density Average height of both live and dead vegetation- determines nesting/cover habitat “Patty” counts-presence/absence of livestock
One site will be randomly selected per each vegetation community and 5 points will be surveyed within a 100 meter radius of this point.
Map vegetation communities/associations
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Breeding birds: 5 points per vegetation community, 6 minute survey of activity within 100 m radius
Amphibians: auditory and visual survey
Colonial nesting birds: estimated nest count survey before fledge
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Small mammal diversity
Not much is known about ne Montana small mammal populations, especially in wetland communities
Quantitative data is virtually lacking from most EPA regions as well
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3 transects each in main habitat types of mixed grass prairie, foxtail barley, and needle and thread grass
1 each in alkali bulrush, hardstem bulrush, and tufted hair grass
1-100 meter transect consisting of 10 stations
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14 transects: Mice: 39 Voles: 37 Shrews: 6 Least weasel: 1 13-lined ground squirrel: 1 Birds: 9 marsh wrens, 2 chicks Herps: leopard frogs tiger salamanders
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Habitat # Transects Mice Vole Shrew Bird Other
Tufted hair grass 1 2 1 1 0 tiger salamanders
leopard frogs
smooth green snake*
Clustered field sedge 1 0 3 0 0 0
Alkali bulrush 1 10 5 0 tiger salamanders
leopard frogs
Hardstem bulrush 1 9 6 1 11 tiger salamanders
leopard frogs
MG Prairie 3 16 1 0 0 Least weasel
13-lined ground squirrel*
tiger salamanders
Saline flat 1 0 0 0 0 0
Foxtail barley 3 1 14 4 0 0 Needle and thread grass 3 1 7 0 0 0
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PARTNERS INCLUDE: US Fish & Wildlife Service Environmental Protection Agency MT Audubon Natural Resource Conservation Service University of Montana Philip L. Wright Zoological Museum MT Natural Heritage Program MT Fish, Wildlife, & Parks Medicine Lake NWR Red Rock Lakes NWR Bureau of Land Management Glasgow Chamber of Commerce Army Corps of Engineers Native Plant Society
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QUESTIONS?