Sauvie Island Hunting Dog Training Advisory Committee (DTAC)

The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife has established the Sauvie Island Hunting Dog Training Advisory Committee (DTAC), to seek collaborative solutions for how the Department can best meet the Goals and Objectives of the Sauvie Island Wildlife Area (SIWA) Draft Management Plan related to habitat and species conservation, while also meeting public desires for hunting dog training activities at SIWA.

ODFW has retained The Mary Orton Company, LLC, to provide convening and facilitation services for the DTAC. The Department is asking the DTAC to focus on aspects of the Draft Management Plan pertinent to hunting dog training and habitat issues, and not to reopen other parts of the Plan. To that end, the DTAC will focus their work on the Sauvie Island Dog Trial Plan and Individual Dog Training Plan, and the following two objectives from the Draft Management Plan:

• Objective 3.2: Provide opportunities for individual dog training and dog field trials which will not conflict with wildlife habitat management objectives or Objective 3.1.
  
  
• Objective 2.4: Protect, enhance and manage approximately 2,230 acres of pasture/grassland habitats to benefit wildlife species, with emphasis on ground nesting songbirds.

The DTAC meetings will be open to the public, and we will be soliciting input from people interested in this topic during an open comment period at each meeting. In addition, anyone can submit written comments at these public meetings; send emails to: odfw.comments@state.or.us (note: when sending emails to odfw.comments, please put ‘DTAC’ in the subject line); fax us at: (503) 621-3025; or by mail to: ODFW 3406 Cherry Ave NE, Salem, OR 97303. Public comments will become part of the public record, posted on this web site and included in materials submitted to the Fish and Wildlife Commission.

DTAC Committee Members

Meetings

DTAC Public Comments

• 02/03/12 Hogan e-mail (pdf)
• 02/20/12 ORTC letter (pdf)
• 01/23/12 Hogan e-mail (pdf)
• 01/07/12 Hogan e-mail (pdf)
• 01/04/12 Borine document (pdf)
• 11/30/11 Hawley email (pdf)
  

Background Information

Sauvie Island Wildlife Area Dog Training Advisory Committee – Conflict Assessment, The Mary Orton Company LLC, November 8, 2011 (pdf)

Sauvie Island Wildlife Area material (pdfs)

• Draft  2010 SIWA Management Plan
• 2011 Sauvie Island Dog Trial Plan
• 2011 Individual Dog Training Plan
• Map of current SIWA dog training areas
• Sauvie Island DTAC tour, hunting dog training/field trial, grassland habitat, goose pasture, waterfowl food crop maps
  • SIWA DTAC Tour Stops
  • Grassland Habitats Ground Nesting Birds
  • SIWA Goose Pasture High Low Use Areas
  • SIWA Dog Training Areas
  • SIWA Pasture Grassland Habitats
  • SIWA Waterfowl Food Crops
• July  2010 Letter to SIWA Dog Trainers and Field Trial Groups
• Oregon Administrative Rules (OARs) for SIWA
• 1993 SIWA Management Plan
• 2010 and 2011 Grazing Permits

Oregon Conservation Strategy

Pacific Flyway Goose Management Plans

• Cackling Goose Plan
• Dusky Canada Goose Plan
• Wrangel Island Population of Lesser Snow Geese Plan
• Pacific Population of Western Canada Geese Plan
• NW Oregon / SW Washington / Canada Goose Agricultural Depredation Control Plan
• Goose Depredation Task Force - Final Recommendations

Studies and Related Information (pdfs)

• The Willamette Valley Landowner’s Guide to Creating Habitat for Grassland Birds (ODFW)
• Altman, B. M. 1997. Distribution, abundance and habitat associations of declining and state sensitive bird species breeding in Willamette Valley grasslands, Unpublished report prepared for Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, Corvallis
• Altman, B., M. 2000. Conservation Strategy for Landbirds in Lowlands and Valleys of Western Oregon and Washington. American Bird Conservancy and Oregon-Washington Partners in Flight , Corvallis.
• Altman, B. M. 2011; Historical and Current Distribution and Populations of Bird Species in Prairie Oak Habitats in the Pacific Northwest. Northwest Science, Vol. 85 No.2: 194-222 
• Altman, B., M. Hayes, S. Janes, and R. Forbes. 2001. Wildlife communities of westside grassland and chaparral habitats. In D. Johnson and T. O'Neil (editors), Wildlife-habitat Relationships in Oregon and Washington. Oregon State University Press, Corvallis. Pp. 261–291.
• Cornell University Cooperative Extension, 2005. Enhancing Pastures for Grassland Bird Habitat. Cornell Cooperative Extension of Schuyler County, New York
• Moore, R. Distribution, Abundance, and Reproductive Success of Streaked Horned Larks in Multnomah County, OR: Breeding Season, 2009. WWC, Corvallis.
• Myers, A. M., and D. A. Kreager. 2010. Declining and state sensitive bird species breeding in Willamette valley grasslands: status update. Unpublished report prepared for Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, Corvallis, and The Oregon Zoo, Portland.
• Natural Resource Conservation Service Wildlife Habitat Management Institute, 1999. Grassland Birds: Fish and Wildlife Habitat Management Leaflet Number 8. Wildlife Habitat Management Institute, Madison.
• Oregon Wildlife Institute (OWI), Corvallis. Grassland Species Accounts:
  • Streaked Horned Lark
  • Western Meadowlark
  • Oregon Vesper Sparrow
• Veseley, D. G. and D.K. Rosenberg, 2010. Wildlife Conservation in the Willamette Valley’s Remnant Prairie and Oak Habitats: A Research Synthesis. Oregon Wildlife Institute, Corvallis, for Interagency Special Status/Sensitive Species Program US Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management, Portland

Disturbance

• Wildlife Disturbance Literature Summary