NRCS National Easement Assessment Project (NEAP)

10/28/2011

The NEAP Team has concluded the vegetation assessment and soil classification for the North Carolina Pilot Study of Wetland Reserve Program easements. We look forward to crunching the numbers. Thanks to our feild assistants for their dedication to our project!

09/19/2011

On 19 August 2011, Dr. Matthew Gray was invited to speak at a meeting of the Steering Committee of the NRCS Conservation Effects Assessment Project (CEAP) in Beltsville, MD. Dr. Gray presented an overview of NEAP, outlined strategies for development of bioassessment and economic valuation models, and discussed possible collaborative studies between CEAP and NEAP during Phase II of NEAP.

The presentation can be viewed at:

http://fwf.ag.utk.edu/mgray/NEAP/NEAPandCEAPPresentation.pdf

09/08/2011

http://www.fishwildlife.org/index.php?section=annual-meeting&activator=20

Dr. Edwards and Dr. Osborne will be attending the Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies 101st Annual Conference in Omaha, NE during 11-14 September 2011. We will be hosting an Exhibit Booth. Please come by and see us.

09/04/2011

NEAP Team members captured a mud snake, which is rarely seen in the wild because it spends most of its time underground during daylight, on a Wetland Reserve Program Easement that serves as a floodplain protection area for the Roanake River in eastern North Carolina.

09/01/2011

Conservation easement signs, like this one in eastern North Carolina, are installed along the boundaries of all properties that are protected by NRCS Easements.

08/22/2011

NEAP Team members are testing wetland sampling protocols for the North Carolina pilot study.

08/19/2011

NEAP Team members will be traveling to eastern North Carolina early next week to kick-off the "Habitat Classification and Remote Sensing Pilot Study".

08/08/2011

http://www.bringbackbobwhites.org/

Brief description of the decline of eastern grasslands, the bobwhite quail and the suite of wildlife species and pollinating insects that utilize the same habitat. NBCI is the National Bobwhite Conservation Initiative.

08/08/2011

Efforts are underway to restore bobwhite quail populations to historic densities! Check out the National Bobwhite Conservation Initiative.

An effort by 25 state wildlife agencies and others, NBGI is the most comprehensive interstate grassland habitat effort on behalf of a resident game bird in the history of wildlife management.

08/07/2011

Overview of the National Easement Assessment Project (NEAP)

08/07/2011

Wetland/Grassland Reserve Program poster presented at the Midwest Bird Conservation and Monitoring Conference in Zion Illinois Aug 1-4, 2011.

http://midwestbirdmonitoring.ning.com/events/2011-midwest-bird-conservation

07/27/2011

NEAP exhibit booth at the Soil and Water Conservation Society Conference in Washington D.C. during 17-20 July 2011.