Habitat Management. Habitat management is necessary for maintaining and producing optimal or prime habitat that is crucial for producing viable populations at WEBR. Both game and non-game species benefit from properly performed habitat management. Habitats are generally managed for optimal conditions on public lands and support good wildlife populations. The greatest challenge to management derives from the heavy pressure and associated problems associated with high user demands. General habitat types are categorized as cropland, rangeland, timber/riparian, wetlands and reservoir. Each habitat type requires various management strategies in order to optimize the diversity and productiveness for different species. Croplands are managed to provide supplemental food, nesting and brooding areas, and winter cover. When the reservoir was at a near all time low in 1991, 1,160 acres were available for production. As the reservoir levels rose in 1993 and again in 1995, cropland acreage was lost. When the reservoir is at conservation pool there are 733 acres of cropland. The reservoir is presently 21 feet below conservation pool with 1,076 acres of total cropland (11%). Rangeland is the largest terrestrial habitat on the area. Total acreage is approximately 3,500 acres (37%) and consists of both warm and cool season grasses, annual and perennial forbs and scattered trees and shrubs. Included within these 3,500 acres of rangeland is 320 acres of CRP warm season grasses. The second largest terrestrial habitat on WEBR is timber/riparian areas. Timber/riparian areas vary with water levels and presently account for approximately 3,170 acres (33%). The predominate species on WEBR is cottonwood. Other species present are willows, hackberry, osage orange, ash, locust, Russian olive and Eastern red cedars. There are few mast producing trees (i.e. walnut and oak). Wetlands existing on WEBR are dependent on fluctuating water levels. At low water conditions, an area is a crop field; at intermediate reservoir levels, the area is a wetland; and at conservation pool or above, the area is part of the reservoir. When the reservoir is at conservation pool there are 3,766 surface acres and is the largest habitat (40%). At 21 feet below conservation level there are only 1754 surface acres and represents 18% of the area. In 1971 and 1991 the reservoir reached all-time lows with only 651 and 787 surface acres respectively. Since the high inflows of 1993 to 2000 the reservoir had been held at or over conserva...
Habitat Management. Grantor may conduct any activities to create, maintain, restore, or enhance wildlife habitat and native biological communities on the Property, provided that such activities do not have more than a limited, short-term adverse effect on the Conservation Values.
Habitat Management. This management plan relies in part on the ability of public lands to support bald eagles. Currently, approximately 33% of all known bald eagle nests in Florida occur on public lands (Xxxxxxxx et al. 2006, Xxxxxxx et al. in review). Public lands provide a high level of security for wildlife because of statutory provisions for long-term management funding and for guiding habitat management on those lands (Florida Statutes 259.105 and 259.032). The FWC encourages land management practices that benefit bald eagles by decreasing the risk of catastrophic wildfire, by maintaining healthy forests, and by providing suitable nest trees. These management practices include the use of prescribed fire, removal of exotic species, reduction of excess fuel loads, thinning of overstocked stands, replanting with native species (primarily pines), and uneven-aged timber management. Retaining large-diameter native pines will ensure that suitable potential nest trees may be available in the future. All of these land-management activities should use the appropriate protections outlined in the Permitting Framework. The FWC recommends siting high-impact recreational activities away from any active or alternate bald eagle nest and restricting activity and/or posting signs during the nesting season, where appropriate. The FWC will provide to managers of Florida’s public lands the resources to identify bald eagle nests on lands they manage. The FWC will also provide technical assistance in managing habitats within nest buffers, and will ensure that future Conceptual Management Plans of lands managed by FWC include a component that follows recommended management practices of habitats surrounding bald eagle nests. Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission - 15 - Chapter 4: Recommended Conservation Actions Bald Eagle Management Plan
Habitat Management. Following FORA’s Termination Date, the Participating Agency shall be solely responsible for carrying out any Habitat-Related Services or other similar requirements associated with the Covered Services.
Habitat Management. Grantor and Grantee each hold the right to develop and implement, at their own cost and expense, a Habitat Management Plan for the Property, which may provide for, but shall not be limited to, management through prescribed xxxxx, exotic species control and habitat restoration. The Habitat Management Plan and any subsequent amendment thereto shall be reviewed and approved by the other party in advance of its implementation, which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed.
Habitat Management. Under the No Action Alternative, on-refuge management at Xxxx NWR would be in accordance with the assumptions of the CVPIA Preferred Alternative. The CVPIA PEIS assumed that provision of Level 2 water supplies and the Level 4 increment would result in the acres of habitat identified in the Report on Refuge Water Supply Investigations (Reclamation 1989). Level 2 water supplies would support approximately 2,800 acres of seasonal wetland, of which 1,200 acres would be moist soil impoundments (Reclamation, 1989). The moist soil impoundments would be irrigated in the summer, but no summer water habitat would be provided (Table 4-3). Acres of Habitat Expected on Xxxx and Pixley NWRs under the No Action Alternative and Proposed Acation Summer water - - 200 Seasonal xxxxx 1,600 4,300 4,250 Moist soil impoundment 1,200 2,700 2,250 Summer water - - - Seasonal xxxxx - 550 238 Moist soil impoundment 310 400 517 Small grain/irrigated pasture - 650 545 aAmount of habitat acreage for the Proposed Action assumes full Level 4 water supplies. Habitat acreage for the Proposed Action are refinements of prior assumptions and are discussed in detail later in this section.
Habitat Management. Under the No Action Alternative, on-refuge management at Xxxxxx NWR is assumed to be in accordance with the assumptions of the preferred alternative resulting from the CVPIA PEIS. The acres of each habitat that would be managed using firm Level 2 water supplies and the Level 4 increment are shown in Table 4-3. Management using Level 2 water would consist of winter flooding of seasonal wetlands for wintering and migrating waterfowl. Existing wetland impoundments allow for a total of 950 wetland acres. However, Level 2 water could only support approximately 310 acres of seasonal wetland. No crops or irrigated pasture would be supported. The increase to Level 4 water supplies would increase wetland habitat availability in the fall and winter. In addition, more water would be available to irrigate moist soil impoundments and cropland. Irrigated uplands would consist of small grains and pasture, and would provide food resource for geese, sandhill cranes, and waterfowl. Mosquito-control activities have not been necessary on Xxxxxx NWR in the past. If control actions were necessary in the future they would be the same as those described for Xxxx NWR.
Habitat Management. Management objectives with full use of Level 4 water under the Proposed Action would emphasize moist soil impoundments to a greater degree than the No Action Alternative and would reduce the acreage maintained as unirrigated seasonal xxxxx. Current habitat objectives using full Level 4 deliveries are shown in Table 4-3. The change in the habitat acreages from those predicted in the Report on Refuge Water Supply Investigations results from recalculations of acreages within the units on the Refuge (X. Xxxxx, 2000) Mosquito-abatement practices would be the same as those described for the No Action Alternative.
Habitat Management. To conserve deer wintering habitat throughout Maine to achieve deer population objectives; and to improve the structural diversity of existing deer wintering habitat by fostering sound silvicultural practices within deer wintering areas. Organization Name and MDIFW agree that the objectives for BDWA management on the property are to: Provide winter habitat in at least 50% of the area of forest stands that are primary softwood sites in each HMA; Actively manage HMAs in order to achieve sustainable winter habitat for deer Include management considerations for the other species of wildlife that utilize mature coniferous forest habitat (Appendix C) and associated forest habitats; Improve forest stand health and quality; Ensure that these areas continue to provide a broad range of public values, consistent with maintaining and managing the BDWA; Produce a balanced forest age class structure, both within HMAs and outside them that will provide stable habitat levels to support a diversity of flora and fauna. Meet the requirements of P.L. 2011, c. 696, including all existing DWA and any lands intended to qualify as DWA within 20 years of the effective date of c. 696.
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