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Best Management Practices

Region 3 National Wildlife Refuge System Pollinator Guidance for Grassland Management Activities

Service des pêches et de la faune

Country
United States

Land Use / Land Cover
Catégories multiples, Farm or adjacent

Agency Type
Federal

Target or Affiliated Species or Habitat
Pollinisateurs

Publication Type
Report

Original Language
English

This report introduces prescriptive National Wildlife Refuge lands BMP guidance for pollinator conservation, directed toward field station land managers. Recommendations are outlined for a range of management practices, including mowing or haying, grazing, prescribed burning, invasive plant removal, pesticide application, and agricultural production. Land managers are instructed to identify specific pollinators that are present and using project areas, to determine applicable practices. Haying and grazing BMPs are required elements for new or updated compatibility determinations.

Consideration of the effects of conservation measures on pollinators, including documentation, is required for existing compatibility determinations. BMPs outline the appropriate timing, extent, frequency and methods for management activities with respect to pollinators and pollinator habitat. Guidelines are somewhat specific and brief. Monarch habitat is not specifically addressed (USFWS 2015).

  • US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS). 2015. Region 3 National Wildlife Refuge System pollinator guidance for grassland management activities. Unpublished report.

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