KENTUCKY DEPARTMENT of
FISH & WILDLIFE RESOURCES

2013 Wildlife Action Plan Revision

• 2013 Wildlife Action Plan Revision Overview
• Taxonomic Group Addition: Crayfish (25 species)
• Addition of 9 fish species 3 amphibian species, and 13 bird species
  • Fish - MAPS
  • Amphibians - MAPS
  • Birds - MAPS
• Addition of 4 Conservation Actions
• Action Plan to Respond to Climate Change in Kentucky: A Strategy of Resilience
• Revision of the Caves, Rock Shelters, and Cliffline Terrestrial Guild
• Species Index

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• RECOMMENDED CITATION

• FOREWARD

• EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

• ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

• LIST OF APPENDICES

• GLOSSARY OF ACRONYMS

• 1.0 VOLUME I: PREFACE

  • 1.1 INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND
    • 1.1.1 How to use this Document
    • 1.1.2 Purpose and Need
    • 1.1.3 Guide to the 8-Elements
    • 1.1.4 Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources
  • 1.2 OVERVIEW OF KENTUCKY
    • 1.2.1 Land Ownership, Human Population, and Economics
    • 1.2.2 Physiography
    • 1.2.3 Climate
    • 1.2.4 Habitats, Vegetation, and Natural Communities
    • 1.2.5 Kentucky’s Ecoregions
    • 1.2.6 Kentucky’s Watersheds
  • 1.3 PLANNING
  • 1.4 COORDINATION
  • 1.5 PUBLIC PARTICIPATION
    • 1.5.1 Public Participation Prior to CWCS Planning Process
    • 1.5.2 Public Participation During the CWCS Planning Process
  • 1.6 IMPLEMENTATION
  • 1.7 LITERATURE CITED

• 2.0 VOLUME II: DISTRIBUTION and ABUNDANCE OF WILDLIFE: SPECIES ACCOUNTS

  • 2.1 INTRODUCTION
    • 2.1.1 Species Selection Process
    • 2.1.2 Sources of Information
    • 2.1.3 How to use the Species Accounts
  • 2.2 AQUATIC SPECIES ACCOUNTS
    • 2.2.1 Fishes and Lampreys (Class Actinopterygii and Cephalaspidomorphi) Overview
    • 2.2.2 Fishes and Lampreys (Class Actinopterygii and Cephalaspidomorphi) Species Accounts
    • 2.2.3 Mussels (Class Bivalvia) Overview
    • 2.2.4 Mussels (Class Bivalvia) Species Accounts
    • Crayfish Overview and Speceis Accounts
  • 2.3 TERRESTRIAL SPECIES ACCOUNTS
    • 2.3.1 Amphibians (Class Amphibia) Overview
    • 2.3.2 Amphibians (Class Amphibia) Species Accounts
    • 2.3.3 Birds (Class Aves) Overview
    • 2.3.4 Birds (Class Aves) Species Accounts
    • 2.3.5 Mammals (Class Mammalia) Overview
    • 2.3.6 Mammals (Class Mammalia) Species Accounts
    • 2.3.7 Reptiles (Class Reptilia) Overview
    • 2.3.8 Reptiles (Class Reptilia) Species Accounts
  • 2.4 LITERATURE CITED
  • Fish - MAPS
  • Mussels - MAPS
  • Crayfish - MAPS
  • Amphibans - MAPS
  • Birds - MAPS
  • Mammals - MAPS
  • Reptiles - MAPS

• 3.0 VOLUME III: CONSERVATION ISSUES & ACTIONS, GUILDS, and PERFORMANCE MEASURES

  • 3.1 INTRODUCTION
  • 3.2 CONSERVATION ISSUES AND ACTIONS
  • 3.3 HABITAT GUILDS
    • 3.3.1 Aquatic Guilds
    • 3.3.2 Terrestrial Guilds
  • 3.4 MONITORING AND ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT
  • 3.5 LITERATURE CITED

• 4.0 VOLUME IV: PRIORITY AREAS

  • 4.1 INTRODUCTION
  • 4.2 PRIORITY CONSERVATION AREA METHODS AND DATA SOURCES
  • 4.3 AQUATIC CONSERVATION AREAS
    • 4.3.1 Mussel (Class Bivalvia) Conservation Areas
    • 4.3.2 Fish (Class Actinopterygii) and Lamprey (Class Cephalaspidomorphi) Conservation Areas
    • 4.3.3 Combined Aquatic Conservation Areas
  • 4.4 TERRESTRIAL CONSERVATION AREAS
    • 4.4.1 Amphibian (Class Amphibia) Conservation Areas
    • 4.4.2 Bird (Class Aves) Conservation Areas
    • 4.4.3 Mammal (Class Mammalia) Conservation Areas
    • 4.4.4 Reptile (Class Reptilia) Conservation Areas
    • 4.4.5 Combined Terrestrial Areas
  • 4.5 COMBINED TERRESTRIAL AND AQUATIC PRIORITY CONSERVATION AREAS
  • 4.6 LITERATURE CITED

Key: T = Table, F = Figure, M = Map

• Volume I Appendices
  • 1.1 Kentucky's Species of Greatest Conservation Need and their statuses. (T)
  • 1.2 Kentucky County Map (M)
  • 1.3 Kentucky Public Lands (M)
  • 1.4 Ownership of Kentucky's public land. (T)
  • 1.5 Population density and change in Kentucky (M)
  • 1.6 Physiographic regions of Kentucky (M)
  • 1.7 Description of the physiographic regions of Kentucky (T)
  • 1.8 Kentucky then and now (M)
  • 1.9 Level III Ecoregions (M)
  • 1.10 Level IV Ecoregions (M)
  • 1.11 Description of Level III and Level IV Ecoregions of Kentucky (T)
  • 1.12 HUC 8-digit watersheds (M)
  • 1.13 Species experts solicited for comments on Kentucky's CWCS (T)
  • 1.71 Current Karst Classifications
• Volume II Appendices
  • 2.1 Count of Kentucky's species by taxonomic class (T)
  • 2.2 Count of Kentucky's Species of Greatest Conservation Need by taxonomic class and Heritage status (T)
  • 2.3 Count of Kentucky's Species of Greatest Conservation Need by taxonomic class and simplified global rank (T)
  • 2.4 Count of Kentucky's Species of Greatest Conservation Need by taxonomic class and Federal status (T)
  • 2.5 Count of Kentucky's Species of Greatest Conservation Need by taxonomic class and simplified state rank (T)
  • 2.6 Count of observations (1984 or later) for Kentucky's Species of Greatest Conservation Need by data source. (T)
  • 2.7 Count by taxonomic class of Kentucky’s Species of Greatest Conservation Need observations dated 1984 or later (T)
  • 2.8 Number of mussel species by state (F)
  • 2.9 Life cycle of the round hickorynut, Obovaria subrotunda (F)
  • 2.10 Status of Kentucky’s 103 species of freshwater mussels (F)
  • 2.11 Kentucky’s major river systems and relative numbers of mussels per drainage (F)
  • 2.12 Bird Conservation Regions in Kentucky (M)
  • 2.13 Explanation of fields used in species accounts (F)
  • 2.14 Legend for species occurrence maps (F)
• Volume III Appendices
  • 3.1 Kentucky’s 79 conservation issues and associated actions (T)
  • 3.2 Kentucky’s priority research and survey needs by taxonomic class (T)
  • 3.3 Kentucky’s Comprehensive Wildlife Comprehensive Conservation Strategy conservation actions (T)
  • 3.4 Kentucky’s prioritized taxa-specific conservation actions (T)
  • 3.5 Kentucky’s Comprehensive Wildlife Conservation Strategy habitat guilds (T)
  • 3.6 Kentucky’s aquatic habitat guild descriptions and prioritized conservation actions (T)
  • 3.7 Objectives, conservation actions and performance measures for Kentucky’s aquatic Species of Greatest Conservation Need (T)
  • 3.8 Kentucky’s terrestrial habitat guild descriptions, prioritized conservation actions, objectives, and performance measures (T)
  • 3.9 Kentucky’s Comprehensive Wildlife Conservation Strategy priority monitoring needs by taxonomic class (T)
  • 3.10 Evaluating the effectiveness of Kentucky’s Comprehensive Wildlife Conservation Strategy (T)
• Volume IV Appendices
  • 4.1 Conservation Area Selection Process (F)
  • 4.2 Mussel Species of Greatest Conservation Need richness by 8-digit watersheds (M)
  • 4.3 Mussel Species of Greatest Conservation Need richness by 14-digit watersheds (M)
  • 4.4 Mussel Conservation Areas (M)
  • 4.5 Mussel Species of Greatest Conservation Need found in nine 8-digit Conservation Areas (T)
  • 4.6 Fish & Lamprey Species of Greatest Conservation Need richness by 8-digit watersheds (M)
  • 4.7 Fish & Lamprey Species of Greatest Conservation Need richness by 14-digit watersheds (M)
  • 4.8 Fish & Lamprey Conservation Areas (M)
  • 4.9 Fish and Lamprey Species of Greatest Conservation Need found in 8-digit Conservation Areas (T)
  • 4.10 Overlapping conservation areas for fishes, lampreys, & mussels (M)
  • 4.11 Aquatic Conservation Areas (M)
  • 4.12 Amphibian Species of Greatest Conservation Need richness by Level IV Ecoregions (M)
  • 4.13 Amphibian Conservation Areas (M)
  • 4.14 Count of Species of Greatest Conservation Need by taxonomic class conservation area (T)
  • 4.15 Bird Species of Greatest Conservation Need richness by Level IV Ecoregions (M)
  • 4.16 Kentucky's bird Species of Greatest Conservation Need by habitat association (T)
  • 4.17 Bird Conservation Areas (Forestland) (M)
  • 4.18 Bird Conservation Areas (Grassland) (M)
  • 4.19 Bird Conservation Areas (Wetlands) (M)
  • 4.20 Overlapping Conservation Areas for Grassland, Forestland & Wetland Birds (M)
  • 4.21 Mammal Species of Greatest Conservation Need richness by Level IV Ecoregions (M)
  • 4.22 Mammal Conservation Areas (M)
  • 4.23 Reptile Species of Greatest Conservation Need richness by Level IV Ecoregions (M)
  • 4.24 Reptile Conservation Areas (M)
  • 4.25 Overlapping Conservation Areas for Mammals, Birds, Reptiles & Amphibians (M)
  • 4.26 Overlapping Conservation Areas for Mussels, Fishes & Lampreys, Mammals, Birds, Reptiles & Amphibians (M)
  • 4.27 Area by number of overlapping taxonomic specific conservation areas (T)
  • 4.28 Species list by taxonomic class for Tier I Conservation Areas (T)
  • 4.29 Percent of Kentucky’s Comprehensive Wildlife Conservation Strategy species by taxonomic class in each Tier I Conservation Area (T)
  • 4.30 Total area and public land ownership of the Tier I Priority Conservation Areas
  • 4.31 Mississippi-Ohio Valley Plains Priority Conservation Area (M)
  • 4.32 Interior Low Plateau Karst Priority Conservation Area (M)
  • 4.33 Southwestern Appalachian Priority Conservation Area (M)
  • 4.34 Area (acres) and percent cover of GAP vegetation types for Tier I Priority Conservation Areas (T)
  • 4.35 Crayfish Conservation Areas (M)