Summary

Description

Included within this plan are recommendations to minimize conflicts and take advantage of opportunities to provide a balance between natural resources and man at NAF Midway. Implementation of this plan will take advantage of the cooperative efforts of the U.S. Navy, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, base contractor, volunteers, and researchers. Although this plan is divided into several management areas, because of NAF Midways small size and density of wildlife resources, most of the specific management recommendations are interrelated and are thus difficult to lump into one area. For example, in order to reduce bird aircraft strike hazards, cleared areas near the airfield should be replanted with native shrubs to provide less desirable habitat for albatross nesting. In order to encourage these plants, herbivorous rodents and competing introduced plants must be controlled.