Work Plan for the Wildlife Component

Conservation Effects Assessment Project (CEAP) National Assessment

Missouri Wetlands Reserve Program (WRP) habitat monitoring

Through a partnership between USDA Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS) and the Missouri Department of Conservation, ecological and compliance monitoring data were collected on approximately 600 separate Wetlands Reserve Program (WRP) easements throughout Missouri during 2003-2005.  Ecological data were also collected on a variety of non-WRP wetland restoration projects in Missouri through efforts funded by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the North American Wetlands Conservation Act.  Analysis of these data sets has the potential to help document the effects of WRP and other wetland restoration practices on a variety of wildlife species.  This project supports a detailed evaluation of existing WRP monitoring data and, to the extent feasible, a synthesis of common data elements among WRP and other wetland restoration ecological monitoring data sets available in Missouri.  Results will be used to document wildlife benefits of wetland restoration pursuant to CEAP Components and inform future ecological monitoring efforts in Missouri. 

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