| | Accession Number | 5004786 |
| | Title | Technical and scientific assistance for DOI land management units |
| | Project Description | Provide ongoing direct and indirect technical assistmnace to units of the National Park |
| | Service,especially but not limited to those in the coastal northeastern US such as Cape Cod |
| | National Seashore, Fire Island Natioanl Seashore, Gateway National Recreation Area, etc. |
| | Matters addressd include but are not limited to such topics as Piping Plover ecology and |
| | management; wildlife damage; off-road vehicles; bird and aircraft interactions; saltmarsh |
| | management; sealevel rise; gull control; damage by goose overpopulations; ticks and Lyme |
| | disease; birds and ticks; avian distribution, populations, and migration; avian taxonomy & |
| | evolution; effects of hurricanes and tropical storms; colonial waterbird population biology & census |
| | techniques; seabirds of the New York Bight; coastal ecology; development and management of |
| | barrier beaches and islands; etc. Advice is given in various ways, including but not limited to: site |
| | visits; onsite advice; attendance at meetings and workshops; participation in panels; lectures and |
| | training; publications; interactions with various Federal. state, and local land and resource |
| | management agencies; field work; rapid assessments; preparation of reports, scientific |
| | manuscripts, and papers for scientific and public meetings; contribution to NEPA compliance; |
| | NGO interactions, etc. |
| | Keywords | biodiversity, birds, coastal ecology, coastal parks, colonial waterbirds, fish wildlife service, goose |
| | overpopulations, gulls aircraft, hurricanes storms, migration distribution, national park service, |
| | orvs, piping plovers, shoreline erosion, wildlife, wildlife damage, |
| | Principal | P.A. Buckley, Patuxent Wildldife Research Center: pabuckley@usgs.gov; |
| | Investigators |
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