A Natural Resource Management Guide for the County of Morris A ...

Bring Back the Natives (US Fish and Wildlife Service, National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, Bureau
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of Land Management, USDA Forest Service, Bureau of Reclamation, and Trout Unlimited) is a cooperative
effort working “to restore native aquatic species and their habitats through local and regional partnerships.” 12
Sites in Morris County include Beaver Brook, Rockaway Township and Primrose Brook in Harding
Township. Both sites feature streambank and habitat restoration.
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Habitat Restoration Program (US Fish and Wildlife Service) is a cooperative venture reaching out È to
governmental agencies, public and private organizations, and private landowners. Without infringing on
private ownership, this program strives to improve and protect fish and wildlife habitat by restoring the
ecosystem in which they are located. Restoration efforts target cleared, drained or otherwise degraded
freshwater and saltwater wetlands, riparian habitats, and habitats of neotropical migratory birds, endangered
and threatened species, and fish.
Partners for Fish and Wildlife Program (US Fish and Wildlife Service) promotes cooperative efforts
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between itself and other federal, state, tribal agencies, and private land owners to utilize bioengineering
techniques to restore habitat.
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Gap Analysis Project (New Jersey) is designed to identify and prioritize habitat relative to richness È of
biodiversity. Vertebrate distribution maps created via geographic information systems, are based on
vegetation community maps (derived from Landsat Thematic Mapper
imagery) and records of known animal locations. Ownership and
management maps will be created characterizing land by management status
for biodiversity ranging from one (highly managed for biodiversity, e.g., a
national park) to four (no management, e.g., an urbanized area). In using this
prioritization method, in terms of optimal habitat, it is hoped that cooperative
planning will incorporate these ecoregions into conservation management.
Landscape Project (New Jersey) was designed to preserve È wildlife
biodiversity by focusing on specific Landscape Protection Areas (LPA).
"Landscape Protection Areas are defined by existing public lands,
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physiographic boundaries and regions of high biodiversity." The project
includes creation of an inventory of State Endangered and Threatened species,
as well as those having special habitat needs. Major wildlife groups surveyed
are migratory birds, herptiles and invertebrates. The data are translated into
Geographic Information System generated maps of rare populations and
critical areas.
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US Fish and Wildlife Service, Bring Back the Natives Fact Sheet, Oct. 1998.
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You Want to do WHAT on my Land? Frequently Asked Questions and Answers About the US Fish and
Wildlife Service's Habitat Restoration Program, Partners for Wildlife, 6.
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Patrick J. Crist, Filling the GAP with Planning, Environment and Development, Dec. 1994, 1.
Jeanette Bowers-Altman, New Jersey's Landscape Project, Nongame News, Newsletter of the New Jersey
Endangered and Nongame Species Program, NJ DEPE, Division of Fish Game and Wildlife, Winter 1994. 7.
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Wildlife