The ultimate product will be a web-based application to facilitate access to desert tortoise threat and recovery information such as data, maps, and reports as well as the use of SDSS models and functionality, through a standard web browser for authenticated users. Agency resource managers can use this system to understand, evaluate and monitor the cumulative effects, beneficial and adverse, of their management programs and policies on listed species.

USFWS DTRO will apply the system in several ways: to conduct structured, repeatable threats assessment; to inform recovery action planning; to monitor species population status; and as a framework for adaptive management of imperiled species. With the enhancements funded by BLM and CEC, the system will allow spatially-explicit and fully-documented cumulative impacts analyses for proposed solar energy projects in the Mojave desert.

Publications
Murphy, P.J., Li, N., Averill-Murray, R.C., Burgess, P., Strout, N. 2008. Smart Knowledge Capture for Developing Adaptive Management System. America’s Conference on Information Systems Proceedings. Paper 174.

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. 2008. Draft revised recovery plan for the Mojave population of the desert tortoise (Gopherus agassizii). U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, California and Nevada Region, Sacramento, California. 209 pp. http://www.fws.gov/nevada/desert_tortoise/documents/recovery_plan/DraftRevRP_Mojave_Desert_Tortoise.pdf