Read Michigan's Wildlife Action Plan

Michigan's Wildlife Action Plan contains four major sections, each of which has multiple chapters. Below you will find links to the Wildlife Action Plan as well as some explanation of what each section contains to help you in finding those sections most relevant to you.

Executive Summary and Table of Contents
This section provides a quick summary of the information in the action plan and the full table of contents.

Executive Summary and Table of Contents

Introductory Text & Statewide Assessments
This section provides background information and context for the strategy, the general approach, methods employed, and statewide assessments of threats and conservation needs. This section will be most valuable to conservation partners interested in ecosystem management and wildlife conservation at statewide or larger scales in Michigan.

Introduction & Statewide Assessments

Landscape Features & Conservation Needs

This section contains summaries of information specific to individual components of the landscape used by wildlife within four Great Lakes basins and four terrestrial ecoregions of the state. Information includes general condition, associated species of greatest conservation need, associated threats, associated natural communities, conservation needs, and research and monitoring needs. This section will be most valuable to conservation partners interested in specific types of landscape features and/or local, lake basin or ecoregional conservation. This section will also be useful to people that are interested in learning more about Michigan's ecosystems. Readers should refer to the ecoregion(s), lake basin(s), or landscape feature type(s) most applicable to their conservation interests.

Landscape Features Introduction and References

Aquatic Systems

Terrestrial Systems

SGCN Status & Species-Specific Issues

This section contains brief summaries of information specific to individual species of greatest conservation need. Information includes distribution, abundance, habitat use, conservation threats, gaps in knowledge, and other issues of importance to conservation of these species in Michigan. This section will be most valuable to conservation partners interested in particular species or taxonomic groups. This section will also be useful to people interested in learning more about the animals in Michigan.

Introduction to Species Summaries

Mussels

Snails

Crayfish

Insects

Fish

Amphibians

Reptiles

Birds

Mammals

Species References

Accompanying Materials
This section contains the acknowledgments, glossary and appendices.

Acknowledgements and Glossary

Appendices