Here are a few improvements we're working on getting into the next update of the Southeast Conservation Blueprint. These improvements will be particularly helpful when you want to use the South Atlantic Conservation Blueprint, but your questions also include areas it doesn't fully cover. We're hoping to have a draft of Version 4.0 of the [...]
Cross-posted with permission from SARP's online news. IT’s HERE! The Southeast Aquatic Resources Partnership (SARP) just released a NEW tool to prioritize dams and road-stream crossing barriers across the entire SARP region. This tool created by the Conservation Biology Institute and SARP allows partners to prioritize dams and road-stream crossings for potential removal or remediation [...]
As many of you know, the 2018 SARP request for aquatic habitat restoration ideas is out and forms are due Dec. 1. If you'd like help using the Conservation Blueprint to show how your proposal fits into a larger conservation strategy, feel free to get in touch with me or Hilary. We'd be glad to [...]
SARP is now accepting aquatic habitat restoration project ideas for FY 2016 funding through its Aquatic Habitat Restoration Program. This year, SARP, with funding from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service/National Fish Habitat Partnership (NFHP), will support projects in or associated with watersheds in the conservation focus areas throughout the SARP geography (see conservation focus [...]
A new 10-year Anniversary Report highlights the achievements of a decade-long regional effort in the Southeastern United States, led by the Southeast Aquatic Resources Partnership (SARP), to preserve globally significant aquatic species and the habitats they need to survive before they are lost forever. In 2004, 14 state fish and wildlife agencies signed a Memorandum of [...]
On February 19 and 20, the SARP Science and Data Committee (SDC) met in Birmingham, Alabama. Many topics were discussed including determining aquatic data gaps, providing products that are applicable to the states and the best way to engage the states, and how to function better as the SDC (roles and responsibilities). With the standing [...]