Conservation and Resource Assessments for the Tongass Land Management PlanRevision. A Conservation Assessment for the Marbled Murrelet in Southeast Alaska

摘要

This assessment summarizes available information on the marbled murrelet insoutheast Alaska and evaluates its current status. Marbled murrelets are broadly distributed across marine waters throughout southeast Alaska. Marbled murrelets are believed to be at increasing risk in biogeographic provinces of the Tongass National Forest subject to extensive harvest of old-growth forests, on which they are believed to be dependent for nesting. Forests on private lands in southeast Alaska are being rapidly clearcut, and murrelet nesting habitat is disappearing rapidly from these lands.