Dredged Material as a Tool for Management of Tern and Skimmer Nesting Habitats; Technical note

摘要

This technical note was written at the request of the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC), Environmental Laboratory (EL) following a presentation made by the senior author at a workshop coordinated by American Bird Conservancy (ABC) working with ERDC, held February 1 4, 2005 at Jekyll Island, Georgia (Guilfoyle et al. 2006). The ERDC and ABC hosted a series of three workshops dealing with coastal Corps activities and bird conservation. The Jekyll Island workshop covered the South Atlantic Coast, essentially from the Virginia-North Carolina border to south Florida. Subsequent workshops covered the North Atlantic and Gulf Coasts. Workshop objectives were to expand capabilities of the Corps to contribute to various bird conservation plans, to make the bird conservation community aware of opportunities that exist through working with the Corps, to address and hopefully reduce some areas of conflict, and to improve interagency and organization cooperation for bird conservation in these coastal regions. This report, which provides guidance on how to create and manage dredged-material islands as early-successional bird habitat, supports the objectives and was funded from a research work unit under the Corps of Engineers Dredging Operations and Environmental Research (DOER) Program titled, Reducing conflicts between coastal engineering projects and bird habitat needs. (http://el.erdc. usace.army.mil/dots/ coastalbirds.html).