Type: report
Authors: Thomsen, Sarah; Perkins, Emily; Moore, Yvonne C.; Preston, Kris; Fisher, Robert N.;
Year: 2025
Purpose: The overall purpose of this document is to identify science-informed management strategies for the golden eagle in San Diego County based on analyses of data collected by USGS scientists and others. The SDMMP developed a Management and Monitoring Strategic Plan for Conserved Lands in Western San Diego County: A Strategic Habitat Conservation Roadmap (MSP Roadmap; SDMMP and TNC 2017) to provide regional goals and objectives for sensitive natural resources and threats/stressors on conserved lands within a 1.7 million-acre MSP Roadmap area (MSPA; See Definitions, SDMMP and TNC 2017). The MSP Roadmap provides a biologically based foundation that can support decision making that guides priorities for funding and managing the monitoring of prioritized species, vegetation communities, and threats/stressors across western San Diego County. The golden eagle was designated a “Category SO” species within the MSPA, defined as a species whose persistence at one or more significant occurrences in the planning area is at high risk of loss without immediate management action above and beyond that of daily maintenance activities (SDMMP and TNC 2017). This document has been prepared to provide science information and support for advancing and fulfilling the MSP Roadmap goals and objectives established for conservation of golden eagle in the MSPA. This document does not replace existing preserve level management plans, daily maintenance activities at existing preserves, or prior obligations negotiated with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), Forest Service, BLM, and CDFW (collectively “Wildlife Agencies/Public Lands Agencies”). Rather, this document provides a science-based framework to assist with regional conservation efforts by listing potential management strategies.
Prepared for: San Diego Association of Governments;
Keywords: golden eagle;
Species: Golden Eagle
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