{
  "projectDescription": "MSRP is re-establishing the Cassin’s Auklet breeding population and restoring the state-threatened Scripps’s Murrelet on Santa Barbara Island (SBI). The Cassin’s Auklet population was decimated by cats that were introduced to the island in the late 1800s. Efforts to re-establish the Cassin’s Auklet colony include using social attraction methods, installing nest boxes, and improving habitat through the removal of non-native vegetation from historical nesting areas and revegetation with native plants.SBI is home to the largest colony of Scripps’s Murrelets in California despite a documented population decline over the last 20 years. Some Scripps’s Murrelet nest sites have been lost due to a reduction in shrub cover on Santa Barbara Island. This restoration project aims to increase the amount of suitable nesting habitat for this species.",
  "program": "DARRP",
  "name": "Montrose - Santa Barbara Island Seabird Restoration",
  "id": "2196",
  "state": "California",
  "state_abbr": "CA",
  "region": "SWR - Southwest",
  "darrpResponsibility": "NOAA",
  "orrId": "2632",
  "constructionStartDate": "2006-12-30 00:00:00.0",
  "nepaStatus": "Complete",
  "nepaCompliance": "Other programmatic EA",
  "fedLeverage": "0",
  "nonFedLeverage": "0",
  "accompReportStatus": "Completed",
  "accompReportDate": "2018-12-30 00:00:00.0",
  "accompAcresMilesFlag": "N",
  "accompVolFlag": "Y",
  "accompDebrisFlag": "N",
  "status": "Completed",
  "locations": [
    {
      "latitude": "33.4801",
      "longitude": "-119.047",
      "county": "Plymouth County",
      "city": "Wareham",
      "congDistrict": "9",
      "riverBasin": "Weweantic River",
      "huc": "10900020302"
    }
  ],
  "species": [
    {
      "species": "hypoleucus",
      "genus": "Synthliboramphus",
      "commonName": "Murrelet, xantus's",
      "nmfsManagedFlag": "N"
    },
    {
      "species": "aleuticus",
      "genus": "Ptychoramphus",
      "commonName": "Auklet, cassin's",
      "nmfsManagedFlag": "N"
    }
  ],
  "partners": [
    {
      "name": "Simon Fraser University"
    },
    {
      "name": "US Geological Survey"
    },
    {
      "name": "Carter Biological Consulting"
    },
    {
      "name": "Pomona College"
    },
    {
      "name": "National Park Service"
    },
    {
      "name": "California Institute of Environmental Sciences"
    },
    {
      "name": "Institute for Wildlife Studies"
    },
    {
      "name": "Growing Solutions"
    }
  ],
  "strategies": [
    {
      "name": "Does not fall under a strategy",
      "primaryFlag": "Y"
    }
  ],
  "photos": [
    {
      "id": "238927",
      "name": "238927_SCMMU nest site Apr 2015 SBI.jpg",
      "webpageNumber": "11",
      "caption": "Scripps's Murrelet nesting site within restored habitat area 2015",
      "date": "4/12/2015",
      "imageType": "Project Photo",
      "feature": "N",
      "creditIndividual": "Gabby Keeler"
    },
    {
      "id": "238928",
      "name": "238928_SCCMU egg Apr 2015.jpg",
      "webpageNumber": "10",
      "caption": "First nesting egg of Scripps's Murrelet in a restoration site on Santa Barbara Island.",
      "date": "4/12/2015",
      "imageType": "Project Photo",
      "feature": "N",
      "creditIndividual": "Gabby Keeler"
    },
    {
      "id": "238915",
      "name": "238915_brood patch_cassins_LH copy.jpg",
      "webpageNumber": "5",
      "caption": "Biologists look for the brood patch on a Cassin's Auklet during a monitoring survey.",
      "credit": "Laurie Harvey, NPS",
      "date": "4/1/2010",
      "imageType": "Project Photo",
      "feature": "N"
    },
    {
      "id": "238916",
      "name": "238916_Xamu adults in nest_LH.jpg",
      "webpageNumber": "8",
      "caption": "Adult Xantus's Murrelets in nest with egg.",
      "credit": "Laurie Harvey, NPS",
      "date": "5/1/2009",
      "imageType": "Project Photo",
      "feature": "Y"
    },
    {
      "id": "238912",
      "name": "238912_cassins nest_LH.jpg",
      "webpageNumber": "7",
      "caption": "Cassin's Auklet nest found on Santa Barbara Island.",
      "credit": "Laurie Harvey, NPS",
      "date": "4/1/2010",
      "imageType": "Project Photo",
      "feature": "N"
    },
    {
      "id": "238913",
      "name": "238913_sasha and kevin weighing cassins_LH.jpg",
      "webpageNumber": "6",
      "caption": "Biologists weigh a Cassin's Auklet during a monitoring survey on Santa Barbara Island.",
      "credit": "Laurie Harvey, NPS",
      "date": "4/1/2010",
      "imageType": "Project Photo",
      "feature": "N"
    },
    {
      "id": "238914",
      "name": "238914_elephant seal cove 1.jpg",
      "webpageNumber": "4",
      "caption": "Water barrels delivered by helicopter are used to water plants.",
      "credit": "Laurie Harvery, NPS",
      "date": "12/1/2009",
      "imageType": "Project Photo",
      "feature": "N"
    },
    {
      "id": "238920",
      "name": "238920_elephant seal cove 3.jpg",
      "webpageNumber": "3",
      "caption": "Helicopter delivers plants and water barrels to remote part of island.",
      "credit": "Laurie Harvey, NPS",
      "date": "12/1/2009",
      "imageType": "Project Photo",
      "feature": "N"
    },
    {
      "id": "238918",
      "name": "238918_SBI shade house.jpg",
      "webpageNumber": "1",
      "caption": "Nursery on Santa Barbara Island where all native plants are grown for revegetation project.",
      "credit": "Laurie Harvey, NPS",
      "date": "10/1/2009",
      "imageType": "Project Photo",
      "feature": "N"
    },
    {
      "id": "238919",
      "name": "238919_100_2224.jpg",
      "webpageNumber": "9",
      "caption": "Scientists perform plankton tows to measure seabird prey availability.",
      "credit": "Jennifer Boyce, NOAA",
      "date": "5/1/2009",
      "imageType": "Project Photo",
      "feature": "N"
    },
    {
      "id": "238917",
      "name": "238917_2008_12_10 Santa Barbara Island27.jpg",
      "webpageNumber": "2",
      "caption": "Volunteers planting native plants that provide nesting habitat for seabirds on Santa Barbara Island.",
      "credit": "David Witting, NOAA",
      "date": "12/1/2008",
      "imageType": "Project Photo",
      "feature": "N"
    }
  ],
  "volunteers": [
    {
      "fiscalYear": "2014",
      "count": "61",
      "hours": "2,456.0"
    },
    {
      "fiscalYear": "2013",
      "hours": "2,000.0"
    },
    {
      "count": "159",
      "hours": "11,292.0"
    }
  ],
  "techniques": [
    {
      "name": "Planting"
    },
    {
      "name": "Invasives removal: vegetation"
    },
    {
      "name": "Bird habitat enhancement"
    }
  ],
  "monitoring": [
    {
      "monitorResultId": "01E157EA-1402-F111-8407-001DD803DE12",
      "tier1Agreement": "N",
      "tier1CompleteDt": "2020-04-01 00:00:00.0",
      "tier1CompleteFlag": "Y",
      "tier1Flag": "Y",
      "tier2Flag": "N",
      "monitorConductFlag": "Y"
    }
  ],
  "accomplishments": [
    {
      "units": "pounds removed",
      "description": "Crystalline Ice plant and grasses",
      "name": "Invasive plants removed",
      "category": "Flora"
    },
    {
      "description": "Biologists and volunteers have planted over 30,000 plants within five restoration sites comprising approximately 7 acres. All native plants are grown from seed collected on the island. A permanent, new nursery retrofitted with the latest water conservation technology was completed in 2011. Plant restoration efforts have focused on re-establishing native plant communities along the island perimeter adjacent to currently and historically occupied seabird habitat to maximize restoration of Scripps’s Murrelets and Cassin’s Auklets.",
      "name": "Habitat enhancement (describe)",
      "category": "Fauna"
    },
    {
      "quantity": "19,000.0",
      "units": "count",
      "description": "coreopsis (Coreopsis gigantea), silverlace (Eriophyllum nevinii), Santa Barbara Island buckwheat (Eriogonum giganteum var. compactum), tarweed (Hemizonia clementina), suaeda (Suaeda taxifolia), sage (Artemisia nesiotica), yarrow (Achilleamillefolium), purple needlegrass (Nasella pulchra),coyote bush (Baccharis pilularis) and boxthorn (Lycium californicum)All plants were grown from seed collected on the island. A permanent, new nursery retrofitted with the latest water conservation technology was completed in 2011.",
      "name": "Plants added",
      "category": "Flora"
    },
    {
      "quantity": "1.0",
      "units": "number of nests",
      "description": "On April 10, 2015 the first nesting Scripps's Murrelet was found in a restoration site.In 2014, biologists rearranged the artificial habitat at the Landing Cove site and placed them under large shrubs that will provide additional protection and cover from predators like Barn Owls. In 2011 and 2012, biologists documented a small number of Cassin’s Auklets nesting in a recently restored site near the Landing Cove!",
      "name": "Nests",
      "category": "Birds"
    },
    {
      "quantity": "1.0",
      "units": "number of breeding pairs",
      "name": "Breeding pairs",
      "category": "Fauna"
    }
  ],
  "funding": [
    {
      "mechanism": "DARRP Settlement Funds",
      "activityType": "Restoration",
      "fyAwarded": "2014",
      "noaaFundingFlag": "N",
      "partnerContribution": "350,555.0",
      "sourceProgram": "DARRP - Damage Assessment, Remediation & Restoration Program"
    }
  ]
}