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• Conway, C. J. 2004. Evaluating the effects of fire on Yuma Clapper Rails and California Black Rails. Sonny Bono-Salton Sea National Wildlife Refuge, Brawley, CA. 19 April 2004 .

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Marsh Bird Monitoring Protocols

During the course of developing the field protocols for this project, we saw a need to make our field protocols available to land management agencies across the country. Hence, we developed a stand-alone set of field protocols for use by others so that data could be pooled across the country to examine the effects of fire (and other management actions) on secretive marsh birds. This subsequently led to the development a national program for monitoring marsh birds. The protocols developed by this project are being used by over 100 field offices representing 40 state and federal land management agencies. For more information please vist the website for that project at: www.ag.arizona.edu/srnr/research/coop/azfwru/NationalMarshBird