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assumption that habitat that is created or restored will indeed be occupied by breeding Golden-winged Warblers; however, this might not be the case in some areas. Regional and focal area population and habitat goals need to be stepped down to the state and MANAGEMENT GUIDELINES The management guidelines portion of this plan is divided into three parts. The first is a Quick Start Guide for Land Managers. The Quick Start Guide is meant to get land managers started quickly without having to wade through a prohibitive amount of background information. It is a summary of information presented in Part I: Comprehensive Management Guide for Creating and Maintaining Breeding Habitat and contains only the basic knowledge required for understanding the Golden-winged Warbler’s landscape-scale habitat requirements and manipulating habitat at the scales of the management site and patch. Information presented in the Quick Start Guide is repeated in other parts of this plan. For ease of use and to set the Quick Start Guide apart from the remainder of the plan, it is set in a box with a green background on multiple pages. 3–12 management site scales, as well. Land managers should assess current and potential habitat management options and estimate acreages. A site-level plan should be developed that includes goals, management practices, and a monitoring schedule. See the Example Management Plan (page 3–18) for how to set goals at the site level. Part I: Comprehensive Management Guide for Creating and Maintaining Breeding Habitat provides additional technical detail for managing Golden-winged Warbler habitat at the site scale, and discusses management techniques that can be used to achieve the desired habitat conditions. Part II: Focal Area Reference Guide provides spatially explicit overviews of habitat-use patterns within each of the plan’s 34 focal areas, and gives population and habitat goals for each focal area. With their high level of detail and georeferencing, Parts I and II can be used to answer conceptual questions about habitat management and guide large-scale conservation planning.
Quick Start Guide for Land Managers Breeding Golden-winged Warblers require a complex structure of habitat components that occur within a variety of ephemeral, young forest, and other ESHs that result from disturbances, like timber harvesting (Figure 3–4) or fire, and more permanent ecological conditions, such as alder swamps and oak barrens. Regardless of the habitat’s origin or degree of permanency, the basic conditions required by Golden-winged Warblers are approximately the same: Shrubby, young forest with limited canopy cover that is frequently interspersed with herbaceous areas of grasses and forbs, and includes widely spaced overstory trees for song perches (Figures 3–4 and 3–5). This basic patch-level configuration often borders more mature forest and is usually set within a landscape matrix of deciduous forest. Figure 3–4. This newly harvested aspen forest has a moderate density of residual canopy trees with a high proportion that are hardwoods (northern red oaks) dispersed throughout the stand. In a couple of years, when the understory has regrown, this site should provide excellent nesting habitat for Golden-winged Warblers. Photo by Laurie Smaglick Johnson. We highly recommend working within the pre-defined focal areas for your region and in places with limited co-occurrence of Blue-winged Warbler (Figures 3–6 to 3–10). See Part II (page 3–46) for maps and detailed descriptions of each focal area. We use four guiding principles to describe habitat associations and provide management guidelines: 1. Context—what is the landscape-scale context of the management site? 2. Configuration—how are the major habitat components configured at the scales of the management site and patch? 3. Content—what are the major habitat components within a patch or stand? 4. Composition—what are the key species or plant community associations within the region and habitat type? Context is discussed at the landscape scale, while Configuration, Content, and Composition are considered at the scales of the management site and patch or stand. 3–13
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