Conservation Goals and Objectives. Consistent with the Service’s “Candidate Conservation Agreement with Assurances Final Policy” (80 FR 95164), the conservation goals of this CCAA are to enhance population survival during implementation of AEPCO’s covered activities. This conservation goal will be met through AEPCPO’s implementation of the conservation measures and this plan. AEPCO will be provided regulatory certainty concerning land use restrictions that might otherwise apply should this species become listed under the Act. Through this CCAA, AEPCO, in collaboration with the Service, will implement conservation measures for the Sonoran desert tortoise, thereby reducing threats to the Sonoran desert tortoise and its habitat that are controllable within the defined CCAA Area (Figure 2). The implementation of the conservation measures will reduce the potential for direct fatalities resulting from AEPCO’s maintenance activities, and will limit new impacts to suitable habitat for the Sonoran desert tortoise to no more than an average of 6.5 acres annually. Emphasis given to protecting adult female tortoises should limit any potential adverse effects on adjacent tortoise populations by ensuring adult females continue to breed and produce future tortoises. Implementation of an early notification system for new nonnative grass patches which may colonize an area will help ensure these areas are not overcome by nonnative grasses. The majority of transmission line structures occur in medium or low value Sonoran desert tortoise habitat, which further limits potential adverse effects to Sonoran desert tortoise populations and habitat. This CCAA limits impacts to 162.5 acres of the 24 million acres of potential suitable Sonoran desert tortoise habitat across its range over the course of 25 years. This equates to only 0.0007 percent of the total Sonoran desert tortoise habitat expected to be potentially impacted by covered activities. These percentages are based on the Service’s 2015 SSA (Service 2015), in which it is cited that 24 million acres of potential Sonoran desert tortoise habitat is predicted rangewide, of which 64 percent occurs in the U.S. (Arizona) and 36 percent occurs in Mexico (Sonora).
Conservation Goals and Objectives. The goals of this Agreement are to facilitate conservation and recovery of Covered Species in North Carolina through species restoration efforts. The Parties recognize that many landowners are reluctant to participate in species reintroductions due to fear that regulatory mechanisms may interfere with otherwise legal use of their property. The Parties intend to allay this apprehension by providing assurances that the reintroduction or introduction of a Covered Species into waters on non-federal property or adjacent property will not limit otherwise lawful use of the property. With such assurances in place, it is our goal to conserve and recover species by working with non-federal property owners to manage populations of priority species, thereby reducing the risk of extinction in the future.
Conservation Goals and Objectives. The following goals and objectives define the management direction established by each Forest through the individual Forest's Arizona Bugbane Conservation Assessment and Strategy documents. Through the implementation of the provisions of this agreement, as based on the best available information on the species, these measures are believed to be sufficient to ensure the long-term survival and conservation of Arizona bugbane and its ecosystems throughout its natural range. These goals and objectives are to:
Conservation Goals and Objectives. The preliminary conservation goals of the NCCP/HCP are to provide for the conservation and management of the natural communities and species preliminarily identified in Exhibit B and, over the period of the NCCP/HCP, improve the native biodiversity on MRC’s lands. The preliminary conservation objectives of the NCCP/HCP are as follows:
4.5.1. Riparian habitat To preserve and enhance aquatic habitat, primarily by managing for streamside stands with large, dense conifer species, and specifically:
4.5.2. Water quality To minimize new anthropogenic sediment inputs and reduce historic anthropogenic sediment inputs to watercourses that can harm aquatic species.
4.5.3. Terrestrial habitat To retain a range of seral stages and conditions of native terrestrial communities, specifically including mature and late seral forests, and provide structural components of terrestrial habitat that are necessary for native species diversity and to conserve existing rare or unique habitats, and specifically:
Conservation Goals and Objectives. The conservation goals of this Agreement are to protect, enhance, and expand habitat availability and to reduce sediment and pollutant runoff. The attainment of these conservation goals and objectives is expected to enhance water quality and allow for subsequent natural population expansion or, if necessary, augmentation or reintroduction of the Covered Species in the Covered Watersheds. Under this Agreement, Cooperators adjacent to stream channels within the Covered Watersheds will make habitat available to the Covered Species and assist with habitat conservation for a minimum period of ten (10) years or for the remainder of the 30-year Agreement, whichever is the longer duration. For example, a Cooperator enrolling under this Agreement in Year 1 will be enrolled for a period of 30 years. Whereas, a Cooperator enrolling under this Agreement in Year 25 will be enrolled for a period of 10 years, which is the remainder of the period covered by the Permits (35 year permit duration). Unless the Agreement and Permit durations are extended, no Cooperators will be enrolled in the Agreement between Years 26 – 30. Cooperators within the Covered Watersheds, but not adjacent to a stream channel will manage their property in a manner which utilizes best management practices to reduce sediment and pollutant runoff. Such management will enhance water quality and habitat (water and stream bed) for the Covered Species. Cooperators will take inventory of their Enrolled Property and protect wet seepages and springs that may provide habitat for the terrestrial burrowing crayfish.
Conservation Goals and Objectives. The conservation goals of this Agreement are to protect, enhance, and expand habitat availability (stream bed and banks), reduce sediment and pollutant runoff thereby enhancing water quality and instream habitat (water and stream bed) and allow for subsequent natural population expansion or, if necessary, reintroduction of the covered species in the upper Little Red River watershed. Under this Agreement, Cooperators adjacent to the Xxxxxx, Middle, South, and Devils (including Turkey and Beech Forks) Forks will make habitat available to the covered species and will assist with habitat conservation for a (minimum) period of 10 years or the remainder of the 30-year Agreement, which ever is the longer duration. Cooperators within the watershed, but not adjacent to one of the forks, will manage their property in a manner which utilizes best management practices that reduce sediment and pollutant runoff thereby enhancing water quality and habitat (water and stream bed) for the covered species.
Conservation Goals and Objectives. The goals of the conservation agreement described in this document are to improve native fish habitat quality and quantity in the Duchesne River basin through multiple objectives of augmenting flows and facilitating natural movement of native fish species. Conservation objectives will result from two actions in the Duchesne River Basin:
