• Purpose of the Statewide Assessments The statewide assessments offer the context in which threats and issues are occuring in Michigan, as well as specifically how these threats and issues are affecting wildlife and landscape features.

• Value of Wildlife to Michigan

• Social & Economic Overview

• Ecological Overview

• Literature Cited in Statewide Assessments 

• Introduction to Priority Threats Identifies and addresses 14 threats to wildlife and landscape features that were evaluated by natural resource professionals as medium to high severity throughout the State.

• Highest Priority:
Invasive Plants & Animals

• Highest Priority:
Fragmentation

• Wetland Modifications

• Channelization

• Riparian Modifications

• Dams

• Non-consumptive Recreation

• Altered Sediment Loads

• Disease & Pathogens

• Altered Hydrologic Regimes

• Altered Fire Regimes

• Social Attitudes

• Lack of Scientific Knowledge

• Introduction to Priority Issues Six additional issues identified as important to wildlife, but that are not adequately addressed in the landscape feature or SGCN summaries. They generally occur at scales considerably larger than most individual landscape features, ecoregions and lake basins, or are associated with multiple SGCN.

• Landscape Mosaics

• Ecosystem Representation & Networks

• Bird Migration & Wintering

• Hybridization

• Rarity

• Urban, Municipal & Industrial Pollution

• Introduction to Statewide Research Needs Provides information on research and monitoring that will help to address wildlife threats and issues, and information on how the effectiveness of recommended actions should be evaluated.

• Research & Surveys

• Standards for Monitoring

• Program Assessment

• Threat Monitoring

• Landscape Feature Condition Monitoring

• Species Monitoring

• Existing Monitoring & Research Efforts

• Adaptive Management

• Priority Research & Monitoring Needs

• Introduction to Priority Conservation Needs Conservation actions, research and monitoring that, if implemented, have the potential for the widest-reaching benefits for wildlife in Michigan.

• Conservation Needs to Address Priority Threats & Issues

• Conservation Needs Specific to Invasive Species

• Conservation Needs Specific to Fragmentation

• Priority Research & Monitoring Needs