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Please check out the Mat-Su Salmon Habitat Partnership’s newest publication – a progress report that highlights and celebrates the collective work of the Partnership over the last nine years. Although all accomplishments of partners could not be included in these few pages, it is none-the-less impressive!
Well done to the many individuals and organizations whose hard work and vision built these successes!
Find an electronic version on the Partnership website at www.matsusalmon.org.
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AKOATS statewide stream and lake temperature monitoring inventory is underway! Got data? Need data?
Through a grant from the US Fish and Wildlife Service’s Western Alaska Landscape Conservation Cooperative (LCC), University of Alaska Anchorage’s Alaska Natural Heritage Program is developing a comprehensive statewide inventory of current and historic continuous monitoring locations for stream and lake temperature. This project is one component of the LCC’s strategy to understand potential climate impacts to freshwater systems across Alaska.
Project Details
WHAT: This project is compiling a statewide catalog of monitoring locations using a common set of attributes. Future Landscape Conservation Cooperative LCC projects will entail gathering the aquatic temperature measurement data.
Please view our DRAFT version web map to see the current inventory which we are updating as data become available.
WHERE: All waters of Alaska.
WHO: AKOATS hopes to gather data from federal, state, local, tribal, academic, and non-governmental agencies monitoring aquatic temperatures.
HOW: Through a grant from the US Fish and Wildlife Service on behalf of the Western Alaska Landscape Conservation Cooperative (WALCC), we are developing a comprehensive statewide inventory of current and historic continuous monitoring locations for stream and lake temperature. This project is one component of the LCC’s strategy to understand potential climate impacts to freshwater systems across Alaska.
DATA CONTACT: If you: have collected (past), are collecting (present), or plan to collect (future) stream or lake temperature data and would like to have your sensors incorporated into AKOATS, please contact Marcus Geist at mageist@uaa.alaska.edu or 907-786-6325. We have developed domain driven (“picklists”) standards and templates to facilitate data compilation making your participation as easy as possible.
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Since 2006, the Mat-Su Salmon Habitat Partnership, a National Fish Habitat Partnership, has offered funds in support of salmon habitat conservation activities and priorities, as identified in the Mat-Su Salmon Partnership Strategic Action Plan . This summer the Partnership will again be requesting proposals for funding for fiscal year 2015. Stay tuned for the announcement on this website www.matsusalmon.org, the Partnership facebook page and email list serve. To sign up for email updates contact jspeed@tnc.org.
Learn more by reading the detailed guidelines applicable to proposals submitted in 2013 for fiscal year 2014 funds.
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The Mat-Su Salmon Habitat Partnership has an updated Strategic Action Plan! Originally an 18 month long process involving many individuals and organizations that was completed in 2008, we have updated our Strategic Action Plan following five years of implementation.
This Strategic Plan, identifies some primary conservation threats to salmon and their habitats in the Mat-Su Basin, and lays out conservation goals and strategies that the Partnership, or anyone else can do to help keep wild abundant salmon the basin.
Find the Mat-Su Salmon Partnership’s 2013 Strategic Action Plan, Executive Summary and Appendices here.
Click here to learn about some of our efforts to meet the goals of the Strategic Action Plan.
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We need your thoughts on what the Partnership can do to achieve our vision of thriving fish, healthy habitats, and vital communities in the Mat-Su. Please review the Strategic Action Plan Final Draft and send your comments to corinne_smith@tnc.org by February 20th, 2014.
