IWMM on Cold Springs National Wildlife Refuge
Map of Cold Spring [...]
IWMM mobile app (IMA) – Year 2 Report
Biologist performing a wetland delineation. Wildnotes Connection Blog In the first year of use (2018-19), nearly one-quarter (23%) of the total participants used the app for at least some of their data collection. Several new features and user [...]
Loess Bluffs National Wildlife Refuge
Oh the Places You Should Go! Darrin Welchert, Refuge Wildlife Biologist Have you ever wondered what a flock of one million snow geese actually looks like? Darrin Welchert, Wildlife Biologist at Loess Bluffs National Wildlife Refuge (LBNWR) can tell you. [...]
Documenting Management Actions
Documenting Management Actions: The “KEY” to Evaluating Habitat Management for Non-breeding Waterbirds Wetland managers need to monitor waterbirds and their habitats during the nonbreeding period to improve the efficacy of management decision making (Lyons et al. 2008), but are often [...]
Recording Management Actions: Easy as 1-2-3
Recording Management Actions is a key element of the IWMM Protocol. Your best source of information on recording Management Actions can be found in the IWMM Monitoring Manual under SOP 6: Recording Management Actions. To begin recording management actions, print [...]
Enhance Your Refuge’s Role in Waterbird Conservation
IWMM was recently featured in the Division of Natural Resources and Conservation Planning Science Support Digest. If you are trying to understand how your Refuge can contribute to Waterbird Conservation, read the article "HOW CAN I ENHANCE MY REFUGES ROLE [...]
Full Participation in IWMM Equals Full Benefits!
Integrated Waterbird Management and Monitoring (IWMM) provides managers a transparent and defensible conservation decision-making framework linked across multiple scales. This conservation approach integrates monitoring, modeling and decision support to optimize local wetland management while supporting continental waterbird populations. Local decision [...]
Getting started with IWMM
Establishing Survey Units and Observation Points The first step in getting started with IWMM is to define your survey unit where waterbird counts, unit conditions, annual vegetation assessments and the recording of management actions will be conducted. In the simplest [...]
Monitoring and Competing Objectives Between Waterbird Guilds
At many locations managed to provide habitat for waterbirds, managers recognize that maximizing benefits for one group of birds may not necessarily maximize them for another. In fact, without careful planning, efforts undertaken for one group of birds may negatively [...]