Work Plan for the Wildlife Component

Conservation Effects Assessment Project (CEAP) National Assessment

The Nature Conservancy (TNC) Intergovernmental Personnel Assignment (IPA)

Through the efforts of its scientists and associates, The Nature Conservancy (TNC) has been studying the effects of various agricultural practices on stream biota in several watersheds in the Midwest (Rankin and Armitage 2004).  USDA Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS) has entered into an Intergovernmental Personnel Act (IPA) agreement with TNC to assign an NRCS employee in one of TNC’s Midwest offices to leverage on-going assessment work and seek other opportunities to assess aquatic biota response to conservation practices.  Specific priorities include developing approaches to using soil and water quality model output from the CEAP Cropland Component to make inferences on stream habitat quality and aquatic biota and to explore opportunities to modify CEAP modeling to include stream habitat quality parameters.

Literature Cited

Rankin, E. T., and B. J. Armitage.  2004.  Protection, restoration, and aquatic life potential in Nature Conservancy Areas in the agricultural Midwest: French Creek (New York), St. Joseph River and Fish Creek (Indiana, Michigan and Ohio), and the Mackinaw River (Illinois).  Midwest Biodiversity Institute, Inc.

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