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Great Plains Fish Habitat Partnership

Great Plains Fish Habitat Partnership. Habitat Assessment Steven Krentz USFWS Scott Roth USFWS. Mission : Creatively Work Together to Conserve Aquatic Resources of Rivers & Streams Throughout the Prairies of the Central United States. 10 States 636,833 square miles area 2 USFWS Regions

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Great Plains Fish Habitat Partnership

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  1. Great Plains Fish Habitat Partnership Habitat Assessment Steven Krentz USFWS Scott Roth USFWS

  2. Mission: Creatively Work Together to Conserve Aquatic Resources of Rivers & Streams Throughout the Prairies of the Central United States.

  3. 10 States • 636,833 square miles area • 2 USFWS Regions • 7 Landscape Conservation Cooperatives • 35 Native American Reservations • 6 Freshwater Ecoregions • 23,629 dams (NID) / 14,130 dams (NABD) • 51,865 Miles of streams and rivers • 405 HUC 8 Watersheds • 520,128 Catchments (HUC 12) • 3 sq km average catchment • 1,649,391 sq km • Approximately 668 Aquatic Species

  4. Great Plains FHP Species Guilds used for Habitat Assessment • Central / Northern Headwater Species Guild • Brassy Minnow, Finescale dace, Pearl dace, Plains topminnow • Southern Headwater Species Guild • Common shiner, Suckermouth minnow • Turbid River Species Guild • Plains Minnow, Shovelnose sturgeon, Western Silvery minnow, Sauger, Flathead chub, Shoal chub, Silver chub, Sicklefin chub, Sturgeon chub • Stonecat / Madtom Guild • Tadpole madtom, Freckled madtom, Slender madtom, Stonecat, Neosho madtom • Darter Guild • Iowa darter, Johnny darter, Orange Throat darter, Arkansas darter

  5. Restore • 309,315 sq km • 103,370 Catchments • Protect • 462,576 sq km • 159,950 Catchments

  6. Combined Restoration Catchment Priority for Five Guilds

  7. Combined Protection Priority Catchments for Five Guilds

  8. Protection/Restoration Priority • Expected Distribution

  9. Known A. Carp • Potential A. Carp

  10. 2010 -2013 Projects • Proposed Projects 2014

  11. Great Plains FHP Science and Assessment Team Maureen Gallagher USFWS Great Plains States Plains and Prairie Potholes Landscape Conservation Cooperative

  12. Healthy Habitat = Healthy Fish = Healthy Economies Great Plains Fish Habitat Partnership www.fishhabitat.org www.prairiefish.org midwestglaciallakes.org www.reservoirpartnership.org www.midwestfishhabitats.org

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