# Presentation: 090121

## Future Challenges

**The Initial Workshop on USGS/FWS Future Challenges**
**Summary of Global Change Breakout Session**

## Science Needed to Address Challenge

**Long-term Monitoring and Documentation**
**Indicators**
**Synthesis and dissemination of existing information**
**Identify schemes, species, areas already showing short-term change for long-term monitoring due to global change**
**Integrated Studies of Multiple Stressors**

## Science Needed to Address Change

**Models**
**Model uncertainty**
**Reduce uncertainty when possible**
**Multiple scales**
**Couple GSMs to ecosystems**
**Couple GSMs to species level**
**Land Use/Cover Implications**
**Ecosystems**
**Environmental**

## Science Needed to Address Change

**Evolutionary Potential of Species**
**Nitrogen Availability and Affect**
**Extinction Projections**
**Vulnerable species**
**Impact on ecosystem**
**Data Management**

## Science Needed to Address Change

**Vulnerable Ecosystems**
**Tundra**
**Boreal forests**
**Temperate forests**
**Alpine meadows**
**Barrier islands**
**Near shore marine systems**
**Coastal and other wetlands**
**River stream systems**
**Island surface water**

## Science Needed to Address Change

**Threshold Conditions for Ecosystem Health**
**Indicators of change**
**Fertilization Affect of CO****2**
**Assessment of secondary affects**
**Sentinal Species**

## Resource Management Strategies Needed

**Extend/Expand Mission and Functions**
**Adaptive/Mitigation Management Strategies**
**Appropriate risk levels**
**Cost/benefit analyses**
**Ecosystem Level Goals**
**Reflect Global Change in Management Plans**
**CCPs**
**Ecosystem focus **

## Resource Management Strategies Needed

**Promote Evolutionary Potential of Species**
**Management Priorities**
**Eliminate administrivia**
**Information Dissemination Strategy**
**Scientists to end users**
**Build capacity within FWS**
**Acquisition**
**Ecosystem Teams (****e.g., Chesapeake Bay Team****)**

## Resource Management Strategies Needed

**Adaptive Management Strategies**
**Appropriate risk levels**
**Cost/benefit analyses**
**Habitat loss**
**Long-term time component in management plans**
**Gap Analysis**
**On the ground**
**Land acquisition to mitigate losses**

## Resource Management Strategies Needed

**Science-based Changes in Management Goals**
**Population goals**
**Identify Implementation Sites for National Goals**

## Partnerships

**FWS, NPS, BLM manage holistically**
**NOAA**
**Coastal status and trends**
**Others needed for monitoring moving species**
**States**
**Tribes**
**Other Feds**
**GIO/CIO**

## Partnerships

**Hydrologic monitoring partners/network**
**State cooperators**
**Army Corps of Engineers**
**National Program Coordinators USGS/FWS**
**FWS ecosystem teams with USGS**
**International partners**
**Non-friendly stakeholders**

## Pearls of Wisdom

**Issue is global change of which climate change is a subset**
**Exchanging spatial for temporal**
**When you come to a fork in the road, take it! **

## Top Priorities/Next Steps: Short-term

**Develop a Comprehensive Communication Strategy**
**Existing information **
**Fact sheets aimed at refuge management**
**Needs sharing specific to Service programs**
**Bring NGOs on Board**

## Top Priorities/Next Steps: Short-term

**Establish Collaborative Teams at Regional Scale and Refuge Scale **
**Identify next steps**
**Develop an Education Plan**
**Assess state of knowledge and understanding (on-going)**
**Establish a Working Group **
**Distill and clarify next steps**

## Top Priorities/Next Steps: Short-term

**Identify Budget Resources **
**All short-term/ long-term plans**
**Provide Guidance, Policies and Framing**
**Develop Tools/Mechanisms for Capturing and Sharing Lessons Learned**
**Identify Areas Lacking Science Expertise for Monitoring**

## Top Priorities/Next Steps: Short-term

**Develop Catalog of Studies Already Done **
**Provide a Synthesis of Information**
**Holistic, ecosystem scale**
**Impacts of global change on regional species**
**Develop a framework**
**Prepare an ‘06 Budget Initiative**
**Monitoring strategies across Bureaus**

## Top Priorities/Next Steps: Long-term

**Establish an Inter-Bureau Strategic Think Tank**
**Build Capacity **
**Models and applications**
**Acquiring and translating science information**
**Track Flora and Fauna**
**Develop a strategy among agencies and partners**
**Develop Enabling Legislation for Refuges **
**Vis a vis global change initiatives**