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RALPH COSTA ( RCWO LLC & Milliken Forestry Co. ) JOEL CASTO ( Casto Environmental Services LLC & Milliken Forestry Co. ) WILL McDEARMAN ( U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service ) RCW Recovery Defined Criterion # ( Name ) # Pops. # PBGs #

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RALPH COSTA (RCWO LLC & Milliken Forestry Co.) JOEL CASTO (Casto Environmental Services LLC & Milliken Forestry Co.) WILL McDEARMAN (U.S. Fish &

Wildlife Service)

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RCW Recovery Defined

Criterion # (Name) # Pops. # PBGs # Pops. Available

1 (Primary Core) 10 350 12 1 (Primary Core) 1 1000 1 2 (Secondary Core) 9 250 10 3 (Essential Support) 6 40 ea.(250 in SCFRU) 10 4 (Essential Support) 3 100 ea.* 3

*The 3 populations are:

Northeast North Carolina & Southeast Virginia
Cumberlands/Ridge & Valley (Alabama)
Sandhills West (North Carolina)

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RCW Range-wide Recovery

Year of Data RCW Territory Source 1993/1994 4,694

Costa & Walker (1995)

2001 5,627

Costa (2004)

2003 5,800

Costa & Jordan (2003)

2005 5,903

USFWS (unpubl. data 2005; Costa)

2006 6,254

USFWS (unpubl. data 2006; Costa)

2011 7,000

USFWS (unpubl. data 2011; McDearman)

2012 7,100

USFWS (unpubl. data 2012; McDearman)

2013 7,250

USFWS (unpubl. data 2013; McDearman)

2016 7,730

USFWS (unpubl. data 2016; McDearman)

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SoCo Recipients’ Trends

Ownership # Properties States 2004 2016 Federal 8 AL, FL, MS 83 379 State 11 FL, GA 133 388 Private 3 FL, GA 3 56 TOTAL 22 4 states 219 823

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Federal: 8 partners (AL, FL, MS)

U.S. Forest Service (5) (AL, FL, MS)
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (2) (FL)
U.S. Air Force (1) (FL)

State: 11 partners (FL, GA)

FL Fish & Wildlife Conservation Comm. (4) (FL)
Florida Forest Service (3) (FL)
Florida Department of Military Affairs (1) (FL)
St. John’s Water Management District (1) (FL)
South Florida Water Management District (1) (FL)
Georgia Department of Natural Resources (1) (GA)

Private: 3 partners (FL, GA)

Disney’s Wilderness Preserve & Park (1) (FL)
Joseph W. Jones Ecological Research Center (1)

(GA)

St. Joe Land & Timber Company (1) (FL)

SoCo Impact: Partners

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Recipient Population Accom lishments

RCWs translocated
Total increase for 22

populations

5-year average annual

geometric growth rate for 22 populations

Estimated Recovery Plan

population goal for 2016

“Off-line” populations

349 since 2004: X = 27 per year 219 to 823 territories 7.6% vs. 5% in Recovery Plan 10 of 14 recovery populations exceed 2016 Goals: averaging 11.1 years “Ahead of Schedule” 11 of 20 (55%) were Power of Flight recipients

METRIC RESULT

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Southern Range Translocation Cooperative (SRTC) TOTAL PoF Contribution RCWs translocated (2004-2016)

1452 349 (25%)

RCW territories (1998)

262 192

RCW territories (2016)

1158 845

Recipient populations

N=33 N=22* (67%)

“Off-line” populations (2016)

20 11 (55%)

SoCo Impact: SRTC

*18 (82%) PoF recipients

designated recovery populations

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SoCo IMPACT: RECOVERY

Criterion #

(Name)

# Pops. # PBGs # Pops. Available SoCo Contribution 1

(Primary Core)

10 350 12

(2)

(4 recovered)

1