Common use of OTHER SPECIES INVOLVED Clause in Contracts

OTHER SPECIES INVOLVED. This Agreement is primarily designed to ensure the persistence of roundtail chub, bluehead sucker, and flannelmouth sucker within their respective distributions. This will be achieved through conservation actions to protect and enhance these species and their habitats. Although these actions will be designed to benefit the three species, they may also contribute to the conservation of other native species with similar distributions. Bonytail (Gila elegans), Colorado pikeminnow (Ptychocheilus lucius), humpback chub (Gila cypha), and razorback sucker (Xyrauchen texanus) are currently listed as endangered under the ESA. In the Upper Colorado River Basin, recovery of one or more of these species has been undertaken by the Recovery Implementation Program for Endangered Fish Species in the Upper Colorado River Basin and the San Xxxx River Basin Recovery Implementation Program. In the Lower Colorado River Basin, the Grand Canyon Monitoring and Research Center and the Lower Colorado River Multi-Species Conservation Plan have committed to recovery actions for these species. Conservation actions for native fish in the Virgin River Basin are occurring under the direction of the Virgin River Resource Management and Recovery Program in Utah and the Lower Virgin River Recovery Implementation Team in Nevada and Arizona. Fish managed under these programs include the federally endangered woundfin (Plagopterus argentissimus) and Virgin River chub (Gila seminuda), as well as the Virgin spinedace (Lepidomeda mollispinis mollispinis), desert sucker (Catostomus clarkii), and flannelmouth sucker. Virgin spinedace is the subject species of a conservation agreement and is listed as a “conservation species” in Utah; it is also listed as “protected” in Nevada. The programs described above focus primarily on mainstem rivers where, in some cases, the three species spend parts of their life cycles. Although the three species are also found in tributary streams, conservation actions in these habitats have received less emphasis to date. Such actions are, therefore, likely to be the focus of state conservation and management plans developed as part of this Agreement. Any conservation actions implemented through existing recovery programs and/or this Agreement may benefit both the endangered fishes mentioned as well as the three species. The signatories will commit to implement conservation actions under this Agreement and Strategy that neither conflict with nor replicate any conservation actions that have been implemented, are being implemented, or will be implemented under any existing recovery program or conservation agreement. Additionally, the Agreement may reduce threats to several native species that are not currently listed as threatened or endangered under the ESA, and thereby preclude the need for listing or re-listing in the future. Some of these native species include speckled dace (Rhinichthys osculus), Gila chub (Gila intermedia), headwater chub (Gila nigra), mountain sucker (Catostomus platyrhynchus), Zuni bluehead sucker (Catostomus discobolus yarrowi), Bonneville cutthroat trout (Oncorhynchus clarkii utah), Colorado River cutthroat trout (Oncorhynchus clarkii pleuriticus), Yellowstone cutthroat trout (Oncorhynchus clarkii bouvieri), mottled sculpin (Cottus bairdi), Paiute sculpin (Cottus beldingi), northern leopard frog (Rana pipiens), relict leopard frog (Rana onca), boreal toad (Bufo boreas boreas), Great Basin spadefoot (Spea intermontana), Great Plains toad (Bufo cognatus), New Mexico spadefoot (Spea multiplicata), red-spotted toad (Bufo punctatus), Xxxxxxxxx toad (Bufo woodhousei), canyon treefrog (Hyla arenicolor), and western chorus frog (Pseudacris triseriata).