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The CFC has adopted a number of management plans to help guide future actions that will lead to accomplishing the management priorities. In particular, there are plans for mallards, each of the five populations of Canada geese that occur in the flyway, lesser snow and greater white-fronted geese, swans, sandhill cranes and mourning doves. Most of these plans were written in coordination with the Mississippi and Pacific flyways. The Goal of most of these plans is: "Maximum recreational opportunity consistent the welfare of population, international treaties, habitat constraints and the interests of all Central Flyway provinces and states." Typically these plans contain sections on populations, distribution, use and research needs.

There is one notable exception to the other plans. In March 2000, the CFC adopted a plan entitled Large Canada Geese in the Central Flyway: Management of Depredation, Nuisance and Human Health and Safety Issues (See References for Plan availability). The Goal of that plan is: Manage resident Canada geese in the Central Flyway to achieve maximum benefits from these birds while minimizing conflicts between geese and humans. Since neither geese nor humans exist in a vacuum, it became necessary to address problems in places where Canada goose populations had grown too large.