Final Comprehensive Conservation Plan - U.S. Fish and Wildlife ...

Hakalau Forest National Wildlife Refuge
Comprehensive Conservation Plan
Table C-2. Recurring Costs Related to CCP Implementation.
Activity 5-year
intervals:
2015,
2020, 2025
CCP
Goals
Cost Estimate Potential fund
source
Operational (Recurring) Costs
Note that cost estimate = annual costs and Year 2025 indicates ongoing for 15 years
Threat mitigation:
Control or eradicate invasive
plants at both units
Control or eradicate pest animals
(e.g., ungulates, invertebrates,
cats/dogs, rats, mongooses, etc.)
at both units
Conduct hazardous fuels
treatment to reduce threats from
wildland fires at both units
Maintain fire prevention program
(includes fuel breaks and
education) at both units
Conduct annual surveys for
invasive species
(absence/presence and percent
cover) at both units
Conduct surveys for pest animals
such as ungulates, nonnative
mammalian predators,
invertebrates, cats and dogs at
both units
Species and Habitat restoration and protection:
Outplanting endangered plants at
both units
Outplant common native plants
for reforestation and restoration at
both units
2025 1-5 $150,000 annual;
$200,00 every 5 th
year;
USFS Forest Health,
USFWS/ISST, 1113
(ES), 1261,1262
2025 1-5 $250,000/year USFS Forest Health,
USFWS/ISST,1261,
1113(ES)
2025 1, 3 TBD 9264, 1262
2025 1, 3 $ 40,000/year 1262, USFS Forest
Health, 9264
2025 1-5 $35,000/year USFS Forest Health,
USFWS/ISST
2025 1-5 TBD USFS Forest Health,
USFWS/ISST,1261,
1113(ES)
2025 1, 3 $15,000/year USFS Forest Health,
USFWS/ISST, 1261,
1113(ES)
2025 1, 3 $10,000/year USFS Forest Health,
USFWS/ISST, 1261,
1113(ES)
Research: note additional projects in partnering projects section
Surveys, inventories, and monitoring:
Continue annual Hawai‘i Forest
Bird Surveys
2025 1-6 TBD USGS and partners
Survey for endemic invertebrates
at HFU ponds
2025 4 TBD 1261,1113(ES)
C-6 Appendix C. Plan Implementation