The 2012 NAWMP Revision recommended developing, revising, or reaffirming objectives so all facets of waterfowl management share a common benchmark. Work in 2013–14 produced this addendum, which sets revised objectives for populations, supporters, and habitat.

Three integrated goals

• Populations: Maintain long-term average breeding duck numbers (TSA 1955–2014; ESA 1990–2014) and periodically reach ≥40 million (TSA) and ≥2.7 million (ESA).
• Supporters: Increase active support (hunters, viewers, stamp buyers, landowners) to levels of the past two decades.
• Habitat: Conserve dynamic wetlands capable of sustaining long-term average populations, periodic abundance, and ecological/recreational benefits.

The addendum stresses the need to link these objectives through adaptive management, Joint Venture planning, and human-dimensions work — a key step in the implementation of the 2012 Revision.