Transcript Expectations and Mission: Interagency Biologists on Air

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Expectations and Mission:
Interagency Biologists on
Air Force Property
Mr. Jason Gibbons
AFCEC/CZOW
5Mar15
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Overview
• Air Force Leadership - One Mission
• Wildlife Services - Federal Leadership
• Managing Expectations and Expertise
o Air Force Safety Center
o Air Force Civil Engineer Center
o Wildlife Services
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Mission
• Air Force Leadership - One Mission
Fly, fight, and win in air, space, and cyberspace
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Mission
• Air Force Leadership - One Mission
o Bird/Wildlife Aircraft Strike Hazards
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Air Force Safety Center
Air Force Civil Engineer Center
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Mission
• Air Force Leadership - One Mission
o Bird/Wildlife Aircraft Strike Hazards
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Air Force Safety Center – BASH Team
 Goal is the preservation of war fighting capabilities
through the reduction of wildlife hazards to aircraft
operations.
 Air Force's point-of-contact for worldwide on-site and
remote technical BASH assistance.
 Coordinate and develop policy, collect and analyze wildlife
strike data through AFSAS, provide the BAM/AHAS for
low-level BASH awareness, and coordinate for BASH
equipment approval.
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Mission
• Air Force Leadership - One Mission
o Bird/Wildlife Aircraft Strike Hazards
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Air Force Civil Engineer Center – Environmental
Management Directorate, Operations Division
 Provides direct installation support by planning and
programming environmental requirements, developing
permits and plans, and executing projects.
 Installation Support Teams (ISTs) serve as installation
advocates and are the office of primary responsibility for
execution, addressing regional issues or leading regional
enterprise initiatives.
 ISTs also develop, acquire, and oversee environmentalfunded contracts in their regions.
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PACAF Region
Eielson AFB
Installation Support Team (IST)
Regions
Clear AFS
611 CES
JB Elmendorf
Richardson
Alconbury
Aviano
Croughton
Fairford
Incirlik
Izmir
Lajes
Lakenheath
Menwith Hill
Mildenhall
Molesworth
Moron
Ramstein
Spangdahlem
USAFE Region
All overseas US Space Assets (Central Contracted @ Peterson)
Kadena
Kunsan
Misawa
Osan
Yokota
Midwest Region
(EPA 5, 7, 8 and 10)
Fairchild AFB
Minot AFB
Grand Forks AFB
Malmstrom AFB
Minneapolis-St Paul ARS
Mountain Home AFB
Ellsworth AFB
Hill AFB
Beale AFB
Travis AFB
Edwards AFB
Vandenberg AFB
March ARB
BMGR (Range)
Luke AFB
Whiteman AFB
Vance AFB
Kirtland AFB
Holloman AFB
Tinker AFB
Dyess AFB
Goodfellow AFB
Scott AFB
Pittsburgh
Dover AFB
JB Andrews
Arnold AFB
Poinsett (Range)
Shaw AFB
JB Langley-Eustis
Seymour Johnson AFB
JB Charleston
Columbus AFB
Dobbins
Barksdale AFB
Robins AFB
Maxwell/
Moody
AFB
Gunter AFB
Carswell ARS
Claiborne Range
Laughlin AFB
JB San Antonio
Willow Grove
Little Rock AFB
Sheppard AFB
(EPA 4, 6 and 9)
a/o 15 Jul 14
McConnell AFB
Altus AFB
Cannon AFB
Davis -Monthan AFB
West Region
Grissom ARB
Wright-Patterson AFB
Air Force Schriever AFB
Academy
Cheyenne
Mnt AFS
Peterson AFB
Nellis AFB
Los Angeles AFB
Youngstown ARS
Offutt AFB
Buckley AFB
UTTR (Range)
Creech AFB
F.E. Warren AFB
Westover ARB
Rome Lab
JB Cape Cod
Niagara Falls
JB McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst
Tyndall AFB
Eglin AFB
Keesler AFB
Hurlburt
MacDill AFB
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Cape Canaveral
Patrick AFB
Avon Park AFS
Homestead ARB
East Region
(EPA 1, 2, 3 and 4)
Mission
• Air Force Leadership - One Mission
o Air Force Instruction 32-7064 (Natural Resources):
“The primary objective of AF natural resources
programs is to sustain, restore and modernize
natural, statutory and workforce infrastructure to
ensure operational capability.”
o Air Force Instruction 91-202 (Mishap Prevention):
“Minimize loss of Air Force resources and protect Air
Force personnel from death, injuries or occupational
illnesses by managing risks on- and off-duty.
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Mission
• Air Force Leadership - One Mission
o Air Force Instruction 32-7064 (Natural Resources):
“The primary objective of AF natural resources
programs is to sustain, restore and modernize
natural, statutory and workforce infrastructure to
ensure operational capability.”
o Air Force Instruction 91-202 (Mishap Prevention):
“Minimize loss of Air Force resources and protect Air
Force personnel from death, injuries or occupational
illnesses by managing risks on- and off-duty.
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USDA-APHIS-WS
• Wildlife Services – Federal Leadership
Authorized by Congress to provide leadership
and assistance in wildlife damage management
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USDA-APHIS-WS
• Wildlife Services – Federal Leadership
Authorized by Congress:
 Animal Damage Control Act (1931):
“The Secretary of Agriculture is authorized and directed to conduct
such investigations, experiments, and tests as he may deem
necessary in order to determine, demonstrate, and promulgate the best
methods of eradication, suppression, or bringing under control on
national forests and other areas of the public domain as well as on State,
Territory or privately owned lands of (a long list of wildlife)… and other
animals injurious to agriculture, horticulture, forestry, animal
husbandry, wild game animals, furbearing animals, and birds, and
for the protection of livestock and other domestic animals through the
suppression of rabies and tularemia in predatory or other wild animals;
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USDA-APHIS-WS
• Wildlife Services – Federal Leadership
Authorized by Congress:
 Animal Damage Control Act (1931):
“and to conduct campaigns for the destruction or control of such
animals. Provided that in carrying out the provisions of this Section,
the Secretary of Agriculture may cooperate with States,
individuals, and public and private agencies, organizations, and
institutions.”
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USDA-APHIS-WS
• Wildlife Services – Federal Leadership
Authorized by Congress:
 Animal Damage Control Act (1931):
o Strengthened in 1988 with the Rural Development, Agriculture,
and Related Agencies Appropriations Act.
“… authorized to conduct activities… in the control of nuisance
mammals and birds and those mammal and bird species that are
reservoirs for zoonotic diseases…”
o Amended in FY2001 Agriculture Appropriations Bill
“… The Secretary of Agriculture may conduct a program of wildlife
services with respect to injurious animal species…”
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USDA-APHIS-WS
• Wildlife Services – Federal Leadership
Authorized by Congress to provide leadership
and assistance in wildlife damage management
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USDA-APHIS-WS
• Wildlife Services – Federal Leadership
Provide leadership and assistance:
 Since 1931, with changes in societal values, WS’
policies and programs place greater emphasis on
the part of the Act discussing “bringing (damage)
under control,” rather than “eradication” and
“suppression” of wildlife populations
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USDA-APHIS-WS
• Wildlife Services – Federal Leadership
Provide leadership and assistance:
 USDA National Wildlife Research Center, Fort
Collins, CO
o Evaluates damage situations and develops methods and tools
o Designs studies to ensure that the methods developed to
alleviate animal damage are biologically sound, effective, safe,
economical, and acceptable to the public.
o Produce the appropriate methods, technology, and materials
for reducing animal damage.
o Through the publication of results and the exchange of
technical information, the Center provides valuable data and
expertise to the public and the scientific community, as well as
to the operational WS program.
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USDA-APHIS-WS
• Wildlife Services – Federal Leadership
Provide leadership and assistance:
 WS Operations
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USDA-APHIS-WS
• Wildlife Services – Federal Leadership
Provide leadership and assistance:
 WS Operations
o Provide BASH or other WDM support at ~ 24 USAF
installations nationwide
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Eglin
Shaw
Avon Park AFR
JBLE-Eustis
Tyndall
Hickam
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Wake Is
Bellows
Malmstrom
Minot
Buckley
Scott
• Whiteman
• JB ElmendorfRichardson
• Beale
• Travis
• March
• Sheppard
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Vance
Columbus
Laughlin
Luke
JB San Antonio
Eielson
Eareckson
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Expectations and Expertise
• Identifying appropriate projects
• Accepting respective roles and
responsibilities
• Communication – internal and external
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Expectations and Expertise
• Identifying appropriate projects
o What is wildlife damage management?
“The reduction or alleviation of damage or
other problems caused by, or related to, the
presence of wildlife”
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Expectations and Expertise
• Identifying appropriate projects
o What is wildlife damage management?
INRMP emphasis:
 Ecosystem
classification
 Vegetation
 Fish and Wildlife
Management
 Invasive Species
 Threatened and
Endangered Species
 Forest Management
 Wetlands
 Floodplains
 Coastal and Marine
Resources
 Grounds Maintenance
 Wildland Fire
Management
 Outdoor Recreation
 Agriculture Outleasing
 BASH
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Expectations and Expertise
• Identifying appropriate projects
o What is wildlife damage management?
 Fish and Wildlife Management
 Baseline presence/absence surveys (12 months)
 Nuisance wildlife capture/removal and surveillance
 Invasive Species
 Vertebrates-only; capture/removal and surveillance
 Threatened and Endangered Species
 Focus on predators and T&E species protection
 USFWS/NOAA BiOp compliance
 BASH
 Hazard assessment, wildlife hazing and depredation
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Expectations and Expertise
• Identifying appropriate projects
o What is NOT wildlife damage management?
 Reconsider if needing:
 Tree planting or habitat restoration
(National Public Lands Day, Arbor Day, Earth Day…)
 Recreation
(Kid’s Fishing Day, other hunting/fishing programs)
 Invasive plants/weed spraying
 Wetland – 404 permit compliance
 Building goose-nest boxes
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Expectations and Expertise
• Accepting respective roles and
responsibilities
Environmental
Safety
Wildlife
Services
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Expectations and Expertise
• Accepting respective roles and
responsibilities
o Safety
 Ensure airmen and aircraft operate in
the safest possible environment
 Identify, defend and communicate
acceptable levels of risk
 Implement programs and procedures
to maintain that acceptable level
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Expectations and Expertise
• Accepting respective roles and
responsibilities
o Environmental
 Ensure the installation is in compliance
with federal and state laws, including
those for fish and wildlife, cultural, air,
water, hazardous waste and solid
waste, ensuring operational capability
 Acquire appropriate staff to implement
and maintain compliance
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Expectations and Expertise
• Accepting respective roles and
responsibilities
o Wildlife Services
 Embrace One-Mission approach: each
squadron plays a role
 Assistance on USAF property will
increase with understanding and
acceptance of roles and responsibilities
 WS is the Subject Matter Expert in
wildlife damage management (WDM)
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Expectations and Expertise
• Communication – internal and external
o Information flow process:
How do we change
this…
Safety
Wildlife
Services
CES/Natural
Resources
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Expectations and Expertise
• Communication – internal and external
o Information flow process:
Safety
To this?
Wildlife
Services
CES/Natural
Resources
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Expectations and Expertise
• Communication – internal and external
o Information flow process:
 Is there a working relationship
between installation Safety and
Environmental?
 What level of support from AFSEC and
AFCEC would benefit both parties?
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Expectations and Expertise
• Communication – internal and external
o Safety and Environmental
 Recognize and accept each other’s BASH
roles and responsibilities
 Depredation Permits are typically assigned
by the Installation Commander
 Non-USAF personal should not make
policy or speak on behalf of the USAF
 We can never allow our management
approach to become emotional or
personal
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Expectations and Expertise
• Communication – internal and external
o Wildlife Services
 Recognize and accept each USAF
squadron’s role in BASH, regardless of
who’s funding the program
 On USAF property, incorporate Air Force
Instructions into planning documents
 Ensure mitigation recommendations are
attainable and in accordance with
applicable regulations
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Summary
USAF Team Concept:
“A diverse group of individuals working
together with complementary skills who are
committed to a common purpose, have group
goals, and take an approach for which they
are mutually accountable (AFI 91-202)”
BASH
Safety, Environmental - One Mission
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QUESTIONS?
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