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Anchorage FY08 Priorities


Field Office:  Anchorage

Fiscal Year:  2007

Submitted by:  Crystal Leonetti, District Conservationist

Date:  March 28, 2007

Question WHIP Criteria LWG Priority
1 This project has a benefit to the highest priority locally identified wildlife species. Moose, salmon
2 This project has a benefit to a secondary priority locally identified wildlife species. Waterfowl, snowshoe hare, beluga whales, dolly varden, rainbow trout, dall sheep, bears, porcupine, muskrat
3 This project addresses one or more locally identified subsistence species. Moose, salmon, berries, edible and medicinal plants, birch, alder
4 This project has a benefit to a plant species identified as a local priority. General Plants: any endemic berry plant

Rare Plants: Amica lessingii ssp. norbergii, Cochlearia sessilifolia, Draba kananaskis, Poa norbergii
5 This project addresses locally identified noxious or invasive species of concern Invasive Plants: Myriophyllum spicatum, Fallopia japonica, Fallopia sachalinensis, Fallopia X bohemica, Centaurea Biebersteinii, Euphorbia esula, Lythrum salicaria, Lythrum virgatum, Phalaris arundinacea, Impatiens glandifulifera Royle, Melilotus alba, Hieracium aurantiacum, Hieracium caespitosum, Bromus tectorum, Cirsium arvense, Prunus padus, Vicia cracca, Lepidium latifolium, Bachypodium sylvaticum, Ranunculus repens

Pest Animals: Black Bear

Insects/Pathogens: Wooly alder sawfly, birch leaf miner, imported current worm.
6 This project occurs in, or within three miles of, or locally identified special ecological management area Increase moose habitat east and south of Hillside Drive in the Anchorage Bowl, as well as in the Eklutna and Tyonek areas; moose habitat should not be encouraged in the more urban parts of Anchorage and along highways or other fast road/rail corridors.


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