Archbold Expeditions, Inc.

By Leveraging Archbold's Existing Relationships Within the Sentinel Landscape and Beyond, This Partnership Builds on Regional Successes to Inform Classification, Recovery and Regulatory Decisions and Promote Mission Flexibility and Military Readiness at Avon Park Air Force Range (apafr). Archbold Biological Station Will: 1. Lead Population Monitoring and Research Efforts for Three Threatened and Endangered Species at Apafr: Florida Grasshopper Sparrow (FGSP), Florida Scrub-jay (FSJ), and Red-cockaded Woodpecker (RCW). Population Monitoring Services Will Include Providing Estimates of Population Size and Occupied Habitat and May Include Banding and Resighting to Estimate Survival, Productivity, and Other Demographic Metrics. Monitoring Also May Include Nest Searching and Monitoring. 2. Assess Habitat Quality for These Species and Provide Management Recommendations to Improve Habitat Quality, Quantity, and Increase Dispersal. 3. Lead Population Management, Including Inter- And/or Intra- Population Translocations for RCWS and Fgsps as Agreed Upon With Usfws, and Nest Protection for Fgsps. 4. Lead Resource Management for RCWS Including the Installation and Maintenance of Artificial Nest Cavities for RCWS. 5. Participate in Regional Conservation Planning Through Numerous Long-term and Ongoing Relationships and Collaborations. 6. Employ Its Social Media Networks and Its Long-established Connections Within the Local Community and With Science Journalists to Highlight Apafr's Role in Successful, Collaborative Conservation and the Local, Regional, National, and International Implications of Those Successes. 7. Assist Usfws Personnel With Research and Conservation Activities. Deliverables Will Include: 1. Copies of Relational Databases With Queries to Summarize Banding Activities, Population Monitoring, Estimates of Survival, Productivity, and Dispersal Where Possible, and Population or Resource Management Activities Completed. 2. Reports Summarizing the Results of the Habitat Assessments and Habitat Management Recommendations Based on These Assessments. 3. Up-to-date Locations of Individuals, Their Nests, or Cavities, Shared on Arcgis Online With Usfws and Apafr Environmental Flight Staff. 4. Sections of Component Plans for Fgsps, FSJS, and RCWS Including Species-specific Current Status, Management Goals and Objectives, Species-level Monitoring and Management, and Habitat-level Monitoring and Management. the Expected Outcomes of This Work Are: 1. Current Information on the Population Size and Population Trends of Fgsps, FSJS, and RCWS on Apafr. 2. Current Information on Habitat Quality and Improved Habitat Management for Fgsps, FSJS, and RCWS. 3. Progress Toward Recovery Goals for Fgsps, FSJS, and RCWS. 4. Development of Component Plans That Promote Species Recovery and Provide Mission Flexibility at Apafr. This Work Will Help Usfws Meet Recovery Goals for FGSP, FSJ, and RCW at Apafr. Healthy Populations of These Species Provide Mission Flexibility for the Us Department of Defense Enabling Them to Train and Maintain Military Readiness. Archbold Advances Its Mission by Conducting the Science That Promotes on the Ground Conservation.