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Description: The first meeting of the South Atlantic Migratory Bird Initiative (SAMBI) occurred in June 1999. Biologists, managers, etc. from the five state area met to build the framework of SAMBI. Focus area maps for each major bird group by state were derived from expert opinion and drawn on to 1:250,000 topographic maps provided to the experts. These experts represented federal, state, and non-governmental organizations with expertise in each of the bird groups. The specific dates of the meeting where these maps were derived were June 22-23, 1999, and were held at the Webb Wildlife Center near Garnett, South Carolina. At this time, focus area maps for Florida and Virginia were not delineated, as the appropriate experts were not present at this meeting to do so. The maps delineated during this meeting were digitized by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service’s Coastal Program in the Charleston Ecological Services Office in Charleston, South Carolina. The focus area maps came to be known at “all bird” focus areas under the framework of the North American Bird Conservation Initiative (NABCI) and SAMBI (the first attempt at BCR planning within the ACJV). The purpose of this first meeting was to initiate bird conservation planning for “all birds across all habitats” under the framework of NABCI. The Management Board of the ACJV had recently met in Orlando, Florida and voted unanimously for the ACJV to become an “all bird” Joint Venture and begin the process of integrated bird conservation planning, that is integrating all the planning efforts of major bird conservation initiatives currently under way in North America. Those currently under way in the south Atlantic region were Partners In Flight, United States Shorebird Conservation Plan, Waterbirds for the Americas, and the North American Waterfowl Management Plan. To develop “all bird” focus area maps for the South Atlantic Coastal Plain geographies of Virginia and Florida, ACJV staff traveled to and met with the appropriate bird experts to delineate similar areas for these states in 2004. In the exercise with Florida, nearshore and offshore focus areas were also delineated, something that the other states did not attempt. Additionally, as some states developed initiatives and produced focus areas for Northern Bobwhite and other early successional/grassland species, these maps were incorporated into the SAMBI Implementation Plan. In 2002, the South Carolina SAMBI Working Group recognized that some of their “all bird” focus areas were not consistent with other states in the SAMBI planning area and initiated an effort to revise focus areas to be consistent with other SAMBI states and to reflect new knowledge and data sources to assist in revising SAMBI “all bird” focus areas. This meeting occurred in 2007. No changes were made to the waterfowl focus area for South Carolina. However, changes were made to the landbird, shorebird, waterbird, and early successional/grassland bird focus areas. Again, new knowledge, better land cover data, and input from other bird conservation organizations were used to revise these maps. Data used were the latest from SE ReGap land cover data, and Audubon SC focus area maps were used for input into the revision. The landbird map was made into four maps from the initial one map, being broke out my four major habitat types: forested wetlands, open pine, maritime forest, and early successional/grassland. These new focus areas were digitized by GIS staff for the ACJV. The result was South Carolina having 7 “all bird” focus areas, one for shorebirds, waterbirds, and waterfowl, and four habitat based focus areas for landbirds. Discussions were held to determine if other states should use this process to update focus areas for their state. It was decided that states could pursue this with the assistance of the ACJV, but the ACJV’s Designing Sustainable Landscapes Project would most likely provide a priority surface for conservation for priority species in all the major bird groups, and therefore, decided not to expend additional effort to follow the process that South Carolina followed. Finally, the waterfowl focus areas in the SAMBI Implementation Plan are identical to those in the ACJV Waterfowl Implementation Plan (WIP). During the process of writing the ACJV WIP, adjustments were made to waterfowl focus areas for the SAMBI states. States had previously identified focus areas, but under new guidance for what a waterfowl focus area should be in the new ACJV WIP, adjustments were made in many states, including those in the SAMBI region

Copyright Text: Atlantic Coast Joint Venture U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

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