Implementing the 2012 North American waterfowl management plan : people conserving waterfowl and wetlands / Dale D. Humburg and Michael G. Anderson.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 340-342).

The North American Waterfowl Management Plan (NAWMP) is a continental
ecosystems model for wildlife conservation planning with worldwide implications.
Since established in 1986, NAWMP has undergone continual evolution as challenges
to waterfowl conservation have emerged and information available to support
conservation decisions has become available. In the 2012 revision, the waterfowl
management community revisited the fundamental basis for the Plan and placed
greater emphasis on sustaining the Plan’s conservation work and on integration across
disciplines of harvest and habitat management. Most notably, traditional and nontraditional
users (i.e. hunters and wildlife viewers) of the resource and other
conservation supporters are integrated into waterfowl conservation planning.
Challenges ahead for the waterfowl management enterprise include addressing
tradeoffs that emerge when habitat for waterfowl populations versus habitat for
humans are explicitly considered, how these objectives and decision problems can be
linked at various spatial and temporal scales, and most fundamentally how to sustain
NAWMP conservation work in the face of multi-faceted ecological and social change.