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Looking into the Future: Five Year Strategic Plan for the Program

The U.S. Geological Survey Wildlife: Terrestrial and Endangered Resources Program (Wildlife Program) is the largest USGS Program in the Biology Discipline and represents an annual effort of more than $40 million. The program supports the investigation of such scientific issues as migratory wildlife, marine mammals, threatened and endangered species, and wildlife disease. It supports the development of tools and technologies for the conservation of wildlife on federally managed lands such as National Parks, National Wildlife Refuges, and Bureau of Land Management areas. To keep pace with these and other emerging wildlife issues will require a continued investment of resources.
This Five Year Program Plan was developed by scientists, managers, regulators, and policy-makers representing the USGS, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the National Park Service, State Fish and Wildlife agencies, Native American tribes, and nongovernmental organizations. Wildlife Advisory Teams were established based upon broad areas of program activities to develop the goals and objectives for this plan, and to help guide the Wildlife Program in the future. Each team developed a set of goals and objectives in one of the following thematic areas:

• Migratory Birds and Habitat Linkages,
• Marine and Freshwater Wildlife,
• Imperiled Species and Conservation Genetics,
• Wildlife Diseases and Zoonoses,
• Science for International Conservation,
• Large Mammals and Predators,
• Human Dimensions and Traditional Knowledge, and
• Modeling and Emerging Technologies.

Strategic Plan for Wildlife: Terrestrial and Endangered Resources Program of the US Geological Survey, 2005-2009 (September 30, 2004) (1.93 MB, PDF--get Adobe Reader)