Sustaining healthy populations of waterbirds that migrate long distances (waterfowl, shorebirds, and wading birds) is a major challenge for land managers. How does a manager know which species to manage for at a specific site? How important is a single site in the big picture? How can many managers coordinate their actions across the landscape so that the birds have the right amount and quality of habitat, at the right time, in the right places? These questions are difficult to answer without understanding how all the pieces fit together.


Managers and scientists are working together in a new project to understand and optimally manage conservation lands along the Atlantic and Mississippi Flyways to support continental populations of waterbirds. They are using adaptive management and modeling in an innovative way that incorporates their management expertise as well as new conservation planning and modeling tools.

Fall 2012 Data Drop

I have begun the process of appending database from fall 2012 to the central IWMM database.  As I progress through the process, I will update this section to include the name of individuals whose databases have been added to the central database.  On behalf of the IWMM, I thank everyone who submitted a database from the fall. 

At this point, I have appended databases submitted by the following individuals:

Annie Larsen - Ben Carlson - Brian Stemper - Chelsea DiAntonio - Darrin Welchert - Eileen McGourty - Eric Dunton - Eric Tomasovic - Heidi Hanlon - Jamie O'Brien - Jeff Moore - Jennifer McAndrews -John Gallegos - Kacy Ray - Kathleen Carlyle - Ken Witkowski - Kris Vagos - Lisa Reid - Megan Karrick - Mick Hanan - Raeth Morgan - Paul Hess -Sarah Janson - Susan Campbell -Tyler Harms - Wendy Stanton - Zachary Cravens

Progress Reports

IWMM_2012_Progress_Report.pdf


Project Newsletters

IWMM Project Introduction June 2009

IWMM Fall 2010 updateOctober 2010

IWMM Fact Sheet June 2012