Assessment of Training Noise Impacts on the Red-cockaded Woodpecker: Preliminary Results
Pater LD, Delaney DK, Hayden TJ, Lohr B, Dooling R. 1999. Assessment of Training Noise Impacts on the Red-cockaded Woodpecker: Preliminary Results. CERL Technical Report 99/51RL. US Army Corps of Engineers, Construction Engineering Research Laboratory
This report is submitted as partial fulfillment of the terms of the Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP) funded project CS-1083. The purpose of this research is to ass the effects of military training noise on the endangered Red-cockaded Woodpecker (RCW) and to develop assessment methodology. The results of this research will provide a scientific basis for RCW management protocols, and will partially satisfy requirements of a 1996 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) boilogical opinion that requires the Army to assess effects of implementing the 1996 'Management Guidelines for the RCW on Army Installations.' Implementing these new guidelines will significantly reduce restrictions on training for military installations on which RCWs are present. These installations include Fort Steward, Fort Bragg, Fort Benning, Fort Polk, Fort Gordon, Fort Jackson, Camp Lajeune, Eglin Air Force Base (AFB), and Camp Blanding. This research is being conducted jointly by the U.S. Army Construction Engineering Research laboratory (CERL), Fort Stewart, and the U.S. Army Forces Command (FORSCOM). The project was developed by CERL in coordination with FORSCOM, the USFWS RCW recovery Coordinator and Region 4 office, the Fort Stewart Directore of training, the Fort Stewart Department of Public Works (DPW) Fish and Wildlife Brance, and the Army Threatened and Endangered Species (TES) User Group.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Pater, Larry; Delaney, David; Hayden, Timothy; Lohr, Bernard; Dooling, Robert
- Date of Issue
- 1999-06
- Publisher
- US Army Corps of Engineers, Construction Engineering Research Laboratory
- Units
- ARD
- Keywords
- Behavior, Bioacoustics, Birds, CERL, flush response, Military, military noise, Nesting, Red-cockaded Woodpecker, serdp, sound threshold, SOUNDBIB