Breaking down the requested federal funding

From a US Fish and Wildlife Service press release (the bold font is mine):

Deputy Interior Secretary P. Lynn Scarlett said today the President is requesting more than $2.1 million to bolster the recovery effort for the endangered Ivory-billed Woodpecker that John James Audubon once called “the great chieftain of the woodpecker tribe.”

“The rediscovery of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker energized conservationists last year,” Scarlett said. “As the search of more than 550,000 acres intensifies, this funding will play a critical role in helping us ensure this second chance is not wasted. The work that is being done today will have lasting conservation benefits for this woodpecker, migratory birds and wildlife throughout the valley.”

Scarlett said the funding will benefit at least 28 species in the region in addition to this species of woodpecker, which had been thought to be extinct for more than 60 years before the April 28, 2005 announcement of its rediscovery at Cache River National Wildlife Refuge in the bottomland hardwood forests known as the Big Woods of Arkansas.
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The President is requesting $1.6 million for recovery planning, $396,000 for monitoring work the Lower Mississippi Valley Joint Venture is beginning, and $197,000 for law enforcement, for the fiscal year that begins Oct. 1.

I don't know very specifically how "planning", "monitoring" and "law enforcement" dollars would be spent. However, if a good portion of the "planning" money is to be spent flying people around to Ivory-bill meetings like this one, I'm having a hard time imagining much benefit to other wildlife species in the region.