Assabet River NWR Final CCP - U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

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Wood Frog Eggs: Photo by Marijke Holtrop
Chapter 4: Management Direction
Strategy 1: Organize and host one or more annual events (such as National
Fishing Day, National Wildlife Refuge Week or Earth Day) designed to
promote wildlife-dependent recreation and natural resource education.
Strategy 2: Initiate programs to provide local communities and landowners
educational and informational material and strategies related to natural
resource protection and restoration. On-going refuge resource
management practices and habitat restoration areas will be incorporated in
all of these programs to serve as illustrations or demonstrations of resource
management concepts and techniques.
Strategy 3: Develop a refuge-specific informational brochure.
Strategy 4: Work with partners and local communities to place
informational kiosks related to the refuge and resource management at
three off-refuge locations.
Goal 4: Adequately protect cultural resources that occur in the
complex.
Strategy 1: Continue evaluations or surveys of cultural resources
(archeological and historical) on a refuge project-specific basis. Soil
disturbance requires resource evaluation and clearance. Federal cultural
resource protection laws and regulations would be enforced.
Strategy 2: Within 10 years, initiate and complete
cultural and historical resource surveys and
inventories on a refuge-wide basis. The
archeological survey portion of this work will be
designed to develop predictive models that could
be applied refuge-wide in evaluating the potential
of future projects to impact cultural resources.
Strategy 3: Comply with Section 106 of the
National Historic Preservation Act before
conducting any ground disturbing activities.
Compliance may require any or all of the following:
State Historic Preservation Records survey,
literature survey, or field survey. The Service has a legal responsibility
to
consider the effects its actions have on archeological and historic resources.
Goal
5: Maintain a well-trained, diverse staff working productively
toward a shared refuge vision.
We
will continue to utilize Service policy, training opportunities, and other
appropriate means to meet the staffing goals.
Assabet River NWR