Missouri Coteau Habitat Conservation XVII
Implementing Organization
Ducks Unlimited, Inc.
Overview
DWH Project Funding
$1,000,000
Known Leveraged Funding
$0
Funding Organization
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS)
Funding Program
North American Wetlands Conservation Act NAWCA
Details
Project Category
Environmental
Project Actions
Land Acquisition/Protection
Targeted Resources
Wetlands/Marshes/Estuaries
Project Description
This is phase seventeen of an ongoing project designed to protect wetland and grassland communities using a landscape-level approach to planning and targeting. The grantee will acquire grassland and wetland easements and one fee donated tract in the Missouri Coteau Region of North Dakota to protect 4,054 acres of grassland and wetland habitat for migratory birds. The easements will become part of the National Wildlife Refuge System under the Small Wetlands Acquisition Program. Habitat losses have resulted in declines of many grassland and wetland-dependent birds that depend upon the Prairie Pothole Region for breeding and migratory habitat. Several species of grassland and wetland-dependent birds as well as plants and insects in the area are now listed as federally or state endangered, threatened, proposed, candidate or watch species because of habitat loss. Most of the remaining grassland habitat in the Missouri Coteau is native prairie. These grassland habitats are critically important components of the prairie pothole ecosystem and are largely responsible for maintaining the functions and values of adjacent prairie wetlands.
Contact
Randy Renner7013553526
rrenner@ducks.org
Project Website
Bass Pro Shops, Ducks Unlimited, Private Contributors
None