TN10070 SOUTHERN BOG LEMMING SYNAPTOMYS COOPERI
| Result | Management Action | ||
| Adverse | Draining wetlands, marshes, ponds, lakes | ||
| Adverse | Reforestation | ||
| Adverse | Suppressing wildfire | ||
| Adverse | Controlling grazing of domestic livestock | ||
| Adverse | Applying herbicides | ||
| Adverse | Applying pesticides | ||
| Adverse | Applying insecticides | ||
| Adverse | Clean farming | ||
| Adverse | Haying/mowing | ||
| Beneficial | Maintaining undisturbed/undeveloped areas | ||
| Beneficial | Maintaining early stages of ecological succession | ||
| Beneficial | Maintaining wilderness environment | ||
| Beneficial | Developing/maintaining edge [ecotones] | ||
| Beneficial | Maintaining unique or special habitat features [wetlands, caves, etc.] | ||
| Beneficial | Developing/maintaining greenspace [wildlife corridors] | ||
| Beneficial | Rights-of-way management for wildlife | ||
| Beneficial | Developing/maintaining brackish marsh | ||
| Beneficial | Developing/maintaining freshwater marsh | ||
| Beneficial | Maintaining bogs | ||
| Beneficial | Developing/maintaining/protecting wetlands | ||
| Beneficial | Timber harvesting - selection cuts | ||
| Beneficial | Timber harvesting - shelterwood cuts | ||
| Beneficial | Prescribed/controlled burning of habitat | ||
| Beneficial | Controlling grazing of domestic livestock | ||
| Beneficial | Timber harvesting - clearcutting | ||
| Beneficial | Timber harvesting - seed tree cuts | ||
| Beneficial | Other management practices [specified in comments] | ||
| Adverse | Other management practices [specified in comments] |
| References/Result | Reference Numbers |
| Adverse | 90, 141, 151, 5881, 5265, PA5231, 6037, 6203, 5407, PA7639, PA4764, PA8491, PA8813, PA10819, 152, 252 |
| Beneficial | 90, 141, 151, 152, 252, 5881, 5265, PA4899, PA5231, 6203, PA7639, PA4764, PA8491, PA8813, PA10819, 6037, 5407, 9329 |
| Existing | 151, 90, PA4899, PA11380, 3854, PA10176, 84, |
Comments on Management Practices
TO PROTECT SPECIES THE PRESERVATION OF CANE BRAKES AND SPHAGNUM BOGS WITHIN THE DISMAL SWAMP IS NECESSARY *151*. CONTROL INDUSTRIAL POLLUTION *90*. DEVELOP AND MAINTAIN NATURAL VEGETATION. IT IS FOUND IN UNDISTURBED HABITATS AND IS DISCONTINUOUSLY DISTRIBUTED AMONG SUITABLE SITES. PRACTICES THAT ALTER OR DESTROY HABITAT ADVERSELY AFFECT THE SPECIES BY ELIMINATING LOCAL POPULATIONS AND/OR SEPARATING POPULATIONS WITH UNSUITABLE HABITATS *PA4899*. The southern bog lemming occurs in such scattered colonies and usually in fallow fields or unproductive lands that it is considered unimportant economically to man *PA11380:165, 3854:342*. Therefore no management strategies seem necassary. However, any damage to ground cover, and particularly sphagnum in areas where it is found would seem to surely endanger its survival. Similarly a sudden large increase in Microtus populations might reduce or eliminate the species locally *PA10176:4, PA11380:165, 84;106-107*. Protection of this species means that the preservation of cane brakes and sphagnum bogs within the Dismal Swamp is necessary *151*. Industrial pollu- tion is adverse *90*.