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TABLE OF CONTENTS TABLE OF CONTENTS ..................................................................................................................................... I EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ................................................................................................................................. V INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................................................................ 1 CAMP RIPLEY TRAINING SITE ..................................................................................................................... 1 ARDEN HILLS ARMY TRAINING SITE ........................................................................................................ 3 RESPONSIBILITIES........................................................................................................................................... 3 PARTNERSHIPS ................................................................................................................................................. 4 PROGRAM AREAS ............................................................................................................................................ 4 CULTURAL RESOURCES ............................................................................................................................. 4 NATURAL RESOURCES ................................................................................................................................ 6 FORESTRY .................................................................................................................................................... 6 Forest Inventory ......................................................................................................................................................... 6 Forest Inventory and Analysis – Northern Research Station ...................................................................................... 6 Timber Sales ............................................................................................................................................................... 9 Fuelwood Permits ..................................................................................................................................................... 14 Tree Planting ............................................................................................................................................................ 15 Insects and Disease ................................................................................................................................................... 15 Land Fund ................................................................................................................................................................ 15 Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) .................................................................................................................... 17 LiDAR Forest Metrics ......................................................................................................................................... 18 VEGETATION MANAGEMENT .................................................................................................................. 20 Camp Ripley Prescribed Fire .................................................................................................................................... 20 Arden Hills Army Training Site Prescribed Fire ...................................................................................................... 23 Camp Ripley and Arden Hills Army Training Sites Invasive Plants ........................................................................ 24 Camp Ripley Common Tansy Chemical Herbicide Treatments .......................................................................... 25 Camp Ripley Spotted Knapweed and Leafy Spurge Chemical Herbicide Treatment .......................................... 27 Biological Control ............................................................................................................................................... 28 Website ................................................................................................................................................................ 29 Future Research ................................................................................................................................................... 30 CAMP RIPLEY WATER RESOURCES........................................................................................................ 30 Sylvan Dam Reservoir Water Quality Analysis ....................................................................................................... 30 WILDLIFE ................................................................................................................................................... 32 Species in Greatest Conservation Need .................................................................................................................... 32 Camp Ripley Birds ................................................................................................................................................... 33 Christmas Bird Count .......................................................................................................................................... 33 Songbirds ............................................................................................................................................................. 33 Totals and Trends ........................................................................................................................................... 34 Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) Songbird Models (Restani and Newton 2009) .................................. 38 Eastern Bluebird (Sialis sialis) Nest Boxes ......................................................................................................... 40 Trumpeter Swan (Cygnus buccinator) ................................................................................................................. 42 Wood Duck (Aix sponsa) Nest Boxes .................................................................................................................. 43 Bald Eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) ............................................................................................................... 43 Osprey (Pandion haleaetus) ................................................................................................................................ 47 Page i 2009 Conservation Program Report
Page 1 and 2: This document is made available ele
Page 3 and 4: Camp Ripley and Arden Hills Minneso
Page 8 and 9: Owl Surveys .......................
Page 10 and 11: APPENDIX J: OCCURRENCES OF SPECIES
Page 12 and 13: quality testing continued at Sylvan
Page 17 and 18: INTRODUCTION The purpose of this re
Page 19 and 20: Since 1994, when Camp Ripley first
Page 21 and 22: on TCCAP land, and that the four si
Page 23 and 24: Figure 2. Culturally evaluated area
Page 25 and 26: and one sample point is measured wi
Page 27 and 28: The status of 2009 timber sale perm
Page 29 and 30: Table 3. Timber sale update at Camp
Page 31 and 32: Tree Planting Reforestation activit
Page 33 and 34: Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR)
Page 35 and 36: Canopy hits are then classified int
Page 37 and 38: Potential prescribed fire units for
Page 39 and 40: Arden Hills Army Training Site Pres
Page 41 and 42: environmental damage to native comm
Page 43 and 44: Camp Ripley Spotted Knapweed and Le
Page 45 and 46: knapweed biological control sites.
Page 47 and 48: In most Minnesota lakes, phosphorus
Page 49 and 50: 1,200 animal species in Minnesota t
Page 51 and 52: Figure 21. Permanent songbird surve
Page 53 and 54: Birds per Plot 4.00 3.50 3.00 2.50
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typically two-dimensional (XY) and
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Figure 25. Location of eastern blue
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Wood Duck (Aix sponsa) Nest Boxes W
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Bald eagles are closely monitored a
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Osprey (Pandion haleaetus) Ospreys
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2004-2006 and more than were heard
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Figure 32. Red-shouldered hawk call
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Figure 34. Red-shouldered hawk call
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Figure 36. Ruffed grouse spring dru
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Wild Turkey (Meleagris gallopavo) A
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Wolf Monitoring Background Section
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Table 11. Gray wolves captured at C
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Figure 41. Locations for Wolf #29 a
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Figure 42. Locations for Wolf #28 a
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Figure 43. Locations for black bear
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Bear #2081 (ten years old in 2009)
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Figure 46. Bear #2105‟s locations
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Figure 47. Scent post survey routes
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Figure 48. Canada lynx sightings, M
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lure (either cougar urine or catnip
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Table 14. Capture data for species
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Figure 52. Using location point wit
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Figure 53. Locations of beaver trea
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Over the past several years, six of
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Figure 55. Observations and nest lo
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Figure 57. Survey Hours and Number
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Figure 61. Reflective tape marked B
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Average Index Value per Stop Figure
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Figure 64. Average anuran index val
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Table 18. Summary of songbird surve
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Table 19. Most abundant songbirds o
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nine American kestrel (Falco sparve
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Figure 68. Plains pocket mouse trea
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Figure 69. Locations of ANABAT surv
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Table 23. Number of butterflies at
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Figure 70. Ferrell Lake is managed
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coming back. Of the 53,000 acres th
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Minnesota Department of Natural Res
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Minnesota Board of Water and Soil R
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at AHATS. These sites will be rehab
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Training Requirements Integration (
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To support visibility and analysis
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server and the software licenses fo
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Camp Ripley Disabled American Veter
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November 1. For the sixth year, hun
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AHATS Deployed Soldiers Archery Wil
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The projects in th
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Dorff Hall, C. and F. J. Cuthbert.
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Minnesota Department of Natural Res
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Appendix A: Camp Ripley Integrated
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Section INRMP Goal Goal Created 200
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Section INRMP Goal Forestry Maintai
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Section INRMP Goal Forestry Balance
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Section INRMP Goal Forestry Clearly
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Section INRMP Goal Grasslands Resto
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Section INRMP Goal Goal Created 200
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Section INRMP Goal Section INRMP Go
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Section INRMP Goal Wildlife Monitor
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Section INRMP Goal Wildlife Control
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Section INRMP Goal T & E Species Ma
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Section INRMP Goal T & E Species Pr
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Section INRMP Goal RTLA-Fauna Monit
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Section INRMP Goal GIS Ensure geosp
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Section INRMP Goal Section INRMP Go
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Appendix B: Arden Hills Army Traini
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Section INRMP Goal Goal Created ADM
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RTLA-GIS Section INRMP Goal Goal 20
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Section INRMP Goal Goal Created TRI
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VEGETATION MANAGEMENT Section INRMP
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FISH AND WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT (Mamma
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Section INRMP Goal Goal Created Son
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Section INRMP Goal Goal Created Mon
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Appendix C: Camp Ripley Interagency
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Page 185 2009 Conservation Program
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Appendix D: Arden Hills Army Traini
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Appendix E: Camp Ripley annual meet
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Vegetation: (Flora) 1. Re-inventory
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Appendix F: Arden Hills Army Traini
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Appendix G: Camp Ripley and Deploye
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Appendix H: Camp Ripley Land Fund L
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Appendix I: Camp Ripley Land Fund B
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ARTICLE IV Membership The members o
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Section 4 - Fund Manager: The Fund
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Appendix J: Occurrences of Species
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# of ECS subsections Tax Scientific
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# of ECS subsections Tax Scientific
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Appendix K. Winter food habits of w
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I will determine frequency of occur
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Pekins, P. J. 2007. Winter bioenerg
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Appendix L. Camp Ripley fisher proj
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1981). Other preferred features are
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Hair Snaring: Hair samples have bee
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Clawges, R., K. Vierling, L. Vierli
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Appendix M: Arden Hills Army Traini
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Project Title: AHATS Hydrology Stud
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Appendix N. GIS Data Layer Updates,
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airfield_surface_point airspace_obs
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