Central Valley Joint Venture 2020 Implementation Plan

​Excerpt from Executive Summary:
The Central Valley Joint Venture 2020 Implementation Plan uses the best available science to establish habitat and population objectives for the major groups of birds in the Central Valley of California. The Plan is intended to be useful to policy makers, regulators, agencies, conservation organizations and landowners working to further bird habitat conservation efforts in the Central Valley. The Plan represents the combined expertise of a wide range of professionals from conservation organizations, state and federal agencies and the private sector. 

In this Plan, the CVJV establishes conservation objectives for the following bird groups:
• non-breeding waterfowl
• breeding waterfowl
• non-breeding shorebirds
• breeding shorebirds
• breeding and non-breeding waterbirds
• breeding riparian landbirds
• breeding grassland-oak savannah landbirds
​• at-risk bird species