Plans & Initiatives

CVJV Plans

CVJV 2006 Implementation Plan

In 1990 the Joint Venture partnership developed its first strategic plan to deliver partnership-based waterfowl conservation, the Central Valley Habitat Joint Venture Implementation Plan. The 2006 Central Valley Joint Venture Implementation Plan incorporates new information and broadens the scope of conservation activities to include objectives for shorebirds, waterbirds, and riparian songbirds.

1990 Implementation Plan (PDF)
2006 Implementation Plan (PDF)
2006 Implementation Plan Fact Sheet (PDF)

Monitoring and evaluation plans identify priority information needs necessary to strategically advance conservation planning and implementation of CVJV objectives.

CVJV Monitoring and Evaluation Plan for Shorebirds and Waterbirds

The Central Valley of California supports one of the largest wintering shorebird populations of any inland site in North America (Shuford et al. 1998,Hickey et al. 2003), and also sustains widespread breeding populations of Black-necked stilts, American Avocets, and Killdeer (Shuford et al. 2007). In addition, large and varied populations of waterbirds (egrets, herons, ibis, bitterns, rails, grebes, pelicans and cormorants) also depend on the Central Valley during the wintering and breeding periods (Kushlan et al. 2002, Shuford 2010). While shorebird and waterbird conservation was not targeted in the original 1990 Central Valley Habitat Joint Venture Implementation Plan, these bird groups undoubtedly benefited from many of the habitat conservation achievements generated by the plan.

CVJV Monitoring and Evaluation Plan for Shorebirds and Waterbirds (PDF)

CVJV Monitoring and Evaluation Plan for Riparian Songbirds

The Central Valley of California has lost over 98% of its riparian habitat in the past 150 years (Smith 1977, Katibah 1984) and riparian habitat loss may be the most important cause of population declines among songbird species in western North America (DeSante and George 1994). Several once common species are now extirpated from the Central Valley. The Central Valley Joint Venture (CVJV) is seeking to reverse this decline, and in its 2006 Implementation Plan (IP) has developed population objectives for a suite of focal species.

CVJV Monitoring and Evaluation Plan for Riparian Songbirds (PDF)

CVJV Monitoring and Evaluation Plan for Wintering Waterfowl

The Monitoring & Evaluation Plan for wintering waterfowl consists of the highest priority information needs to advance conservation planning and implementation in the Central Valley Joint Venture. The issues in this plan contribute to strengthening the CVJV's biological foundation by testing key assumptions of the 2006 Implementation Plan, refining bio-energetic models, informing habitat management and evaluating program effectiveness.

CVJV Monitoring and Evaluation Plan for Wintering Waterfowl (PDF)

CVJV Monitoring and Evaluation Plan for Breeding Waterfowl

The Monitoring & Evaluation Plan for breeding waterfowl consists of the highest priority information needs to advance conservation planning and implementation in the Central Valley Joint Venture. The issues in this plan contribute to strengthening the CVJV's biological foundation for breeding waterfowl and focus on inventory and assessment of key habitats, and evaluation of the relationship among vital rates, habitat parameters and population response.

CVJV Monitoring and Evaluation Plan for Breeding Waterfowl (PDF)