Wildlife Operations: Structure and Function
This acronym is from the framework that is commonly used in the oil and gas industry to highlight the priorities in an emergency response.
What is PEAR
This section of the wildlife plan includes sections on introduction and scope, risk assessment, response strategy, equipment supplies and services, management human resources and training, communications and control, sections on activication, and funding
What is the strategy section?
They are responsible for recovering alive and dead oiled animals and transporting them to rehabilitation facilities.
What is the Wildlife Recovery and Transportation Unit?
This unit is responsible for ensuring that live animals exposed to oil receive the best achievable care and ensuring that oiled animals are propery documented, sampled, tracked, and release.
What is the Wildlife Rehabilitation Unit?
Documents the transfer of possession of live or dead wildlife or their parts. It serves as proof of lawful take and possession, ensuring compliance with regulations.
What is the Chain of Custody Form?
This is a standardized, flexible framework used to manage emergency response operations.
What is the Incident Command System
This operates under the Operations Section of the ICS and reports to the Operations Section Chief.
What is the ICS Wildlife Branch?
These species specific groups are responsible for the recover and rehabilitation of marine mammals and sea turtles.
What are Sea Turtle and Marine Mammal Recovery and Rehabilitation Group?
This type of facility is purpose-built and constructed specifically to support wildlife activities
What are permanent facilties?
An autopsy performed on an animal.
What is "Necropsy"?
These documents, created concurrently are used to create the wildlife plan
What are Site Safety and the Incident Action Plans
This fortified facility is located at the Texas State Aquarium's Center for Wildlife Rescue. IT is built to withstand extreme weather and equipped with full emergency and backup power systems
What is the Wildlife Response Operations Center (WROC)?
This plays a vital role in wildlife response operations. It serves as a foundational guide for response actions, ensuring that teams follow consistent procedures and make informed decisions during high-pressure situations.
What is documentation?
A scientific term to referring to groups of animals, forexample, in terms of their evolutionary, geographical or population relationship
What is "Taxon"?
The acronym is IMS
What is "Incident Management System"?
This outlines how to protect responders and wildlife during field operations involving hazards.
What is a site safety plan?
This person is responsible for all aspects of incident Response. Leads the decision-making process, organizes teams, and manages the overall incident response.
Who is the Incident Commander?
This unit is responsible for determining the location and the movement of animals that may be or perhaps already have been impacted by an event.
What is the Wildlife Survey Unit?
This is the process of releasing and returning resources no longer needed to support the incident or event
What is "demobilization"?
The organizational level having responsibility for a major functional area of incident management
What is a section?
This outlines the responsibilities of the Wildlife Branch within a unified command structure.
What is the wildlife plan?
This person oversees all operations within the wildlife branch within the ICS Framework and ensures that the wildlife branch objectives are achieved efficiently.
Who is the Wildlife Branch Director?
This unit has responsibilities encompassing determining when and if other animals' deterrence operations should take place.
What is the Wildlife Hazing Unit?
This is a standardized form describing the basic incident strategy, incident objectives, command emphasis/priorities, and safety considerations for use during the next operational period.
What is an ICS 202 Form?
This person reports to the branch director and works closely with the wildlife reconnaissance and recovery supervisor.
Who is the Wildlife Veternarian?