Douglas H. Johnson,^1,* James P. Gibbs,² Mark Herzog,³ Socheata Lor,⁴ Neal D. Niemuth,⁵ Christine A. Ribic,⁶ Mark Seamans,⁷ Terry L. Shaffer,⁸ W. Gregory Shriver,⁹ Stephen V. Stehman,² William L. Thompson<sup>10

1</sup>1U-S. Geological Survey, Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center, Saint Paul, MN, 55108, USA
²2State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse, NY, 13210, US
³3PRBO Conservation Science, Petaluma, CA, 94954, USA
⁴4U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Biological Monitoring Team, 2630 Fanta Reed Road, La Crosse, WI, 54
⁵5U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Habitat and Population Evaluation Team, Bismarck, ND, 58501, USA
⁶6U.S. Geological Survey, Wisconsin Cooperative Wildlife Research Unit, Department of Forest and Wild
⁷7U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Division of Migratory Birds, Laurel, MD, 20708, USA
⁸8U.S. Geological Survey, Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center, Jamestown, ND, 58401, USA
⁹9Department of Entomology and Wildlife Ecology, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, 19717, USA
¹⁰10National Park Service, Southwest Alaska Inventory and Monitoring Network, Anchorage, AK, 99501, US

^*Corresponding author; E-mail: Douglas_H_Johnson@usgs.gov