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SUMMARY:Climate Watch Spring Season
DESCRIPTION:Climate Watch Spring Season \nClimate Watch is sponsored by the National Audubon Society (NAS) & takes place during two distinct seasons—winter (January 15-February 15) and summer (May 15-June 15). Below is the alert for any season (winter or summer) . \nLike the Christmas bird count this is a chance to help create “citizen science” for birds. Climate Watch focuses on these target species: Eastern Bluebird\, Mountain Bluebird\, Western Bluebird\, White-breasted Nuthatch\, Red-breasted Nuthatch\, Brown-headed Nuthatch\, Pygmy Nuthatch\, American Goldfinch\, Lesser Goldfinch\, Painted Bunting\, Eastern Towhee\, and Spotted Towhee. \nThese birds are easy to identify\, have an enthusiastic constituency\, and Audubon’s climate models for these species offer strong predictions for range shifts for us to test. In future years\, Climate Watch may include additional target species threatened by climate change. We believe that western bluebird and painted bunting are not normally in SD. All the other birds occur in all or parts of SD. \nVisit this page to see where these birds are in SD\, and which are near you: \nhttps://www.sdakotabirds.com/species_main.htm\nLocation Climate Watch focuses on areas of predicted change for these 12 species at each location across the continent. Audubon provides volunteers with online mapping tools with a grid of 10 km x 10 km squares showing species-specific predictions for each square based on the climate models. A Climate Watch Coordinator can help select your location and survey square. If you are participating on your own\, use the online maps to decide in which square to do your surveys. You will be able to see which squares are already “claimed”. \nHow to count Volunteers should first make sure to read through all of the materials including the full protocol manual. The Climate Watch protocol is different than any other birding program. Then using the planning done with the online maps\, volunteers survey appropriate habitat for the target species within a square and conduct 12 point counts of five minutes each within one morning\, then record the number and species of all birds seen or heard within 100 meters. Participants send the data to the National Audubon Society. \nHow data will be used  Audubon’s 2019 climate change report\, ‘Survival By Degrees\, – https://www.audubon.org/climate/survivalbydegrees – reveals that up to two-thirds of North American birds are vulnerable to extinction due to climate change. For example\, the beautiful Mountain Bluebird is vulnerable because in the vast majority of its summer range\, the climate conditions that this bird needs—temperature\, amount of rainfall\, and other environmental factors—will shift northward and eastward. This bird may be able to move into new areas over time\, or it may struggle to adapt. To test the report’s predictions\, Audubon has developed Climate Watch\, which aims to document species’ responses to climate change and test Audubon’s climate models by having volunteers in the field look for birds where Audubon’s climate models predict they will be in the 2020s. This information helps Audubon target our conservation work to protect birds. See the Climate Watch results page here to see our early reports and results from the data received by Climate Watch volunteers so far! \nLink to the Climate-watch program on the National Audubon Society web page \nhttps://www.audubon.org/conservation/climate-watch \nClimate watch instructions for participants \nhttps://www.audubon.org/news/participant-resources-climate-watch\nClimate watch for beginners webinar\, – this has much of the same info as our November meeting \nhttps://audubon.zoom.us/rec/share/xe9NAZTe6WVOf7fz2kbRAYAQMI66eaa8hCFL_fNZn0k3a8uNjHkvp4-EZzq7vlq_?startTime=1588186808000\n\n\nOur web page on community science efforts: \n https://phas-wsd.org/citizen-science/ \n 
URL:https://phas-wsd.org/event/climate-watch-spring-season/
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SUMMARY:Deadline for written comments to the SDGFP Commission June meeting
DESCRIPTION:The written comment deadline for SDGFP Commission meetings is 72 hours before the day of the meeting\, which normally are on Thursdays\, \nSunday\, June 1st just before midnight CT is the June Written comment deadline. \nYou go to SDGFP web site\, under Commission drop down menu https://gfp.sd.gov/commission/ to the submit public comment portal https://gfp.sd.gov/forms/positions/and submit comments there. \n  \nPlease go to the notice posted for June 5-6th Commission meeting for more details on subjects to comment on. I do not have time yet\,  to re-enter the information here also \nWe are asking folks to at least support \n\na moratorium on beaver hunting/trapping in the Black Hills and\nto comment on the  Northern River Otter Action Plan and ask it to plan to reintroduce river otters to western SD and to improve riparian and aquatic habitat along the major tributaries leading from the Missouri River to western SD.  We have river otter in eastern SD\, but if river otter exist in western SD\, they are anecdotal reports on occassional isolated individuals\,  not known to be breeding.\nWe also need for the corridors along the rivers to be more hospitable to otter by improving the riparian habitat along their edges or creating beaver habitat in side tributaries.   The proposed plan does not provide for these objectives. Please ask for them to be added.\nPlease ask for the eastern SD population to be managed to be robust enough to send migrating individuals to western SD or support capture of some otters to translocate to western SD\nAcknowledge that “wildlife watching” of beavers & otters is an important use of both species\, and certainly not less important than commercial activity of trapping/hunting for furs to sell\n\nThere is also the comment deadline of May 23rd to comment to the staff’s version of the Norther River Otter Action Plan DRAFT. As the Commission approves the staff’s version at it’s June meeting\, you can also still comment to the Commission on the Draft Plan. \nThere is also a  July 2nd deadline to comment on the Staff’s version of a Beaver Action Plan DRAFT\, which is the deadline for submitting forstaff review\, with July 10th and July 6th as written deadlines for the Commission review of Staff’s decisions. https://phas-wsd.org/event/comments-due-on-sdgfp-beaver-action-plan-july-2nd-2025/ \nGo to those deadline dates on the event calendar or to our web page on –  Beaver Alert for all the relevant guides\, talking points and links.  Basically GFP is willing to have a moratorium on beaver hunting/trapping in the Black Hills for a while and work to rebuild the population and its’ distribution (which is good)\, but is not addressing the issues with beaver in the rest of SD and the associated northern river otter issues (trapping beaver results in incidental take of otters\, as otter are strongly associated with the habitat that beavers provide).
URL:https://phas-wsd.org/event/deadline-for-written-comments-to-the-sdgfp-commission-june-meeting/
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