Georgia Project
Assess Field- and Landscape-Level Effects of NRCS Conservation Practices on Gopher Tortoise Habitat
October 2016 - August 2020
Personnel
- Clinton Moore, Principal Investigator
- James Martin, Co-Principal Investigator
- Jeff Hepinstall-Cymerman, Co-Principal Investigator
- Lora Smith, Co-Principal Investigator
- Thomas Prebyl, Student / Post Doc
- Heather Gaya, Student / Post Doc
- Brian Crawford, Non-PI Collaborator
Participating Agencies
- USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service
The Working Lands for Wildlife (WLFW) program of the Natural Resources Conservation Service provides financial incentives for private landowners to manage their lands in ways that enhance habitat suitability for wildlife species of conservation concern, including the gopher tortoise. This project has two purposes: (1) assess how well WLFW has delivered conservation benefit on enrolled properties with respect to habitat and population metrics, and (2) develop enhancements in population assessment technology to more sensitively gauge how tortoise populations respond to conservation actions in short time frames.
| Theses and Dissertations | Publication Date |
|---|---|
| Gaya, H. E. 2019. Enhancing line-transect distance sampling to increase detectability of gopher tortoises (Gopherus polyphemus) in population surveys. M.S. Thesis, University of Georgia, Athens. | May 2019 |