Hardwood Midstory Control Sample Clauses

Hardwood Midstory Control. ADCNR-WFF can enroll a landowner under a SHMA if that landowner agrees to control hardwood midstory encroachment in pine forest stands on the enrolled property through one of the following methods: a) mechanical or chemical methods or prescribed fire to control hardwoods in occupied habitat. Any of those actions would provide an immediate net conservation benefit for RCWs. b) mechanical or chemical methods or prescribed fire to control hardwoods in potentially suitable nesting or foraging habitat. Any of those actions would provide an immediate net conservation benefit to RCWs. c) mechanical or chemical methods on a regular or recurring basis to control hardwoods in habitat that is currently unsuitable for RCWs. However, under either of these actions, the landowner would be required to agree to control hardwoods for a period sufficient for the habitat either to become occupied by RCWs or to become potentially suitable nesting or foraging habitat. The net conservation benefit of either of these actions would not be achieved until the areas where hardwood control was conducted either became occupied by RCWs or became potentially suitable nesting or foraging habitat. d) lawn mowing methods to maintain herbaceous understory in pine forest stands on the enrolled property. Lawn mowing methods would include using tractors with xxxx hogs to cut hardwood saplings up to 1-inch. Lawn mowing in occupied and potentially suitable nesting or foraging habitat would provide an immediate net conservation benefit to RCWs. In unsuitable habitat, the landowner would be required to agree to mow for a period sufficient for the habitat either to become occupied by RCWs or to become potentially suitable nesting or foraging habitat. The net conservation benefit would not be achieved through this action until the areas where mowing was conducted either became occupied by RCWs or became potentially suitable nesting or foraging habitat. Under this action, the landowner also might be required to implement other conservation measures, such as a forest management strategy, to achieve a net conservation benefit to RCWs.

Hardwood Midstory Control. The Landowner agreed to control hardwood midstory encroachment in pine forest stands on the enrolled property through the use of mechanical or chemical methods or through the use of prescribed fire and the hardwood midstory control will occur under any of the following circumstances: