Rose Atoll Comprehensive Conservation Plan (2014)

Cover reads Rose Atoll National Wildlife Refuge Comprehensive Conservation Plan. The cover shows seabirds flying around a rocky beach and three small boxes to the side with a tree, a white red-tailed tropicbird chick, and a giant clam with a turquois shell.
Rose Atoll NWR Final CCP_May 2014(1).pdf11.55 MB

The purpose of a Comprehensive Conservation Plan (CCP) is to specify a management direction for the Refuge for the next 15 years. The goals, objectives, and strategies for improving Refuge conditions, including the types of habitat we will provide, partnership opportunities, and management actions needed to achieve desired conditions are described in the CCP. The Service鈥檚 preferred alternative for managing the Refuge and its effects on the human environment, are described in the CCP as well.

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Frank Pendleton
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A school of yellow fish swim around a reef. Light breaks through the top and creates a glow in a sea that is deep blue.
Rose Atoll National Wildlife Refuge
The Refuge is located 180 miles east of Tutuila in American Samoa. Rose Atoll is one of the smallest atolls in world, with 21 acres of emergent land and 1,600 acres of lagoon. There are two low, sandy islands--Rose and Sand. The primary reef-building species at the atoll is coralline algae, giving...
National Wildlife Refuge
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Wildlife refuges