Proposed Authorized Take. [Insert a description of the specific take estimate for the area covered by the SHA. This is based on the species abundance, the total area of species habitat in the area covered by the SHA, and the effect of the conservation measures and routine land management activities carried out on the property on the species.] The Service recognizes that this level of take is consistent with the overall goal of providing a net conservation benefit to recovery of the species on the enrolled property.
Proposed Authorized Take. [Insert a description of the specific take estimate for the area covered by the CCAA. This is based on the species abundance, the total area of species habitat in the area covered by the CCAA, and the effect of the conservation measures and routine land management activities carried out on the property on the species.] The Service recognizes that this level of take is consistent with the overall goal of precluding the need to list the species, if it is assumed that the specified conservation measures were also to be implemented on other necessary properties.
Proposed Authorized Take. The activities covered under this Agreement may result in incidental take of the ocelot or may otherwise impact the ocelot population established under this Agreement. The San Antonio Viejo Ranch and other neighboring lands are working cattle ranches. Activities on these properties include normal ranch management activities, such as cattle grazing; development and maintenance of ranch infrastructure to manage livestock; activities related to nature tourism, hunting, and recreation; and wildlife research and management. Additionally, Participating Landowners or the subsurface owners of participating lands may engage in a suite of activities to support the creation, exploration, inspection, or transmission of solar, wind, oil and gas, or other energy sources. Incidental take resulting from ranch management activities is expected to be minimal and will likely only consist of modifying small amounts of habitat. Ranching is generally compatible with ocelot conservation; the Ranch Ocelot Population, which is found on private working ranchlands such as the East Foundation’s El Sauz cattle ranch, is the largest known ocelot population in Texas. Further, low traffic levels combined with low speed limits on ranch roads means that the risk of ocelot mortality due to vehicle strikes is low. In cases where a Participating Landowner is planning a major land conversion activity that will change the property’s primary land use from ranching to some other activity and the planned conversion is likely to modify or remove large amounts of ocelot habitat, the Participating Landowner must provide the East Foundation with a 30-day notice of the planned land conversion as well as the opportunity to, if determined by the East Foundation to be necessary, access the property for 90 days to capture and relocate ocelots present on the property. Additionally, if a Participating Landowner intends to conduct nonselective and potentially lethal predator control practices, such as trapping, that could directly take ocelots, the Participating Landowner must provide the East Foundation with a one-week notice of the activities to allow East Foundation to determine whether it should monitor the activity and attempt to remove ocelots from the property during the activity, or if Participating Landowners must either check for impacted ocelots daily or check every other day but provide drinking water at any capture devices to reduce the risk of an ocelot mortality due to overheating or lack of wa...
Proposed Authorized Take. The authorization for incidental take of Covered Species is contingent upon the Property Owners maintaining the amount of habitat at or above baseline conditions on the Property at the time the baseline was established during SHA development. The only take authorized is incidental take associated with loss of above-baseline habitat levels from Covered Activities described previously in section 3.5. Above-baseline habitat would include newly developed habitat that did not exist at the time the Property Owners enrolled. The voluntary habitat enhancement activities in section 4.2 above will increase the likelihood that the number of Covered Species and the total area of suitable habitat will increase by providing more complex forested stands for NSO and open xxxxxxx and habitat for wolves.
