PURPOSE OF THE CCA. The primary purpose of this CCA is to: • develop, coordinate, and implement conservation actions to reduce and/or eliminate known threats to the LPC and SDL within the current and historic range of both species in New Mexico, • support ongoing efforts, especially those of New Mexico Department of Game and Fish (NMDGF) to establish/re-establish and maintain viable populations of both species in occupied and suitable, but unoccupied habitats, • serve as a landscape-scale umbrella document for conservation measures implemented by CEHMM and Participating Cooperators, • encourage development and protection of suitable LPC and SDL habitat by giving Participating Cooperators incentives to implement specific conservation measures (as described in their CP), • provide Participating Cooperators a high degree of certainty that the conservation measures agreed to in the CP would be considered in the biological opinion, and thus, would reduce the likelihood of additional land use restrictions to Participating Cooperators that might otherwise apply should the LPC and/or SDL become listed, and • allow industry to continue most of their operations while protecting and improving habitat conditions for the LPC and/or SDL.
PURPOSE OF THE CCA. The primary purpose of this CCA is to: • Develop, coordinate, and implement Conservation Measures to reduce and/or eliminate potential threats to the Covered Species in New Mexico and Texas; • Maintain viable populations of the Covered Species in Occupied Habitat; • Support ongoing efforts to re-establish populations of the Covered Species in currently unoccupied but historic, suitable habitats (i.e., Delaware River); • Serve as a landscape-scale umbrella document for Conservation Measures implemented by CEHMM and Participants; • Encourage development and protection of suitable habitat for Covered Species by giving Participants incentives to implement specific Conservation Measures (as described in their CP); • Provide Participants a high degree of certainty for the duration of this CCA that additional Conservation Measures above and beyond those contained in the agreement will not be required and that additional land, water, or resource use limitations will not be imposed upon them should one or more of the Covered Species become listed in the future, so long as Participants properly implement their CPs; and, • Allow industrial and agricultural development to continue while protecting and improving habitat conditions for the Covered Species.
PURPOSE OF THE CCA. The primary purpose of the CCA is to promote grazing practices that reduce or eliminate potential threats to sage-grouse and their habitats on enrolled allotments and to ensure that existing neutral or beneficial grazing practices are likely to continue uninterrupted if the species is listed in the future. The allotment-level CCA cannot be used as an instrument to bring an allotment into compliance with BLM regulations and policies (e.g., BLM Land Health Standards). Furthermore, a permittee or lessee’s participation in a CCA does not by itself change or otherwise modify their existing grazing permit or Allotment Management Plan. The CCA provides a framework for authorized Permittees/Lessees to voluntarily implement, or continue to implement, grazing practices and associated conservation measures that benefit sage-grouse on their BLM-administered allotments. The conservation measures of the CCA are intended to describe the voluntary measures that go beyond those already required by permit, lease, or regulation. More specifically, the CCA will accomplish the following: Develop, coordinate, and facilitate conservation measures and actions to reduce and/or eliminate known threats to sage-grouse; Support implementation of the Wyoming Governor’s Executive Order (2011-5 as updated), mandating conservation of sagebrush habitats within the State of Wyoming. Serve as an important component of a larger, landscape-level approach to address the conservation needs of sage-grouse in Wyoming by providing more seamless management across private and public lands; Identify conservation measures for rangeland management activities in Wyoming that are beneficial for sage-grouse, based on best available science; Support the continuation of livestock operations on public lands while protecting and improving habitat conditions for sage-grouse; and Recognize the interrelated nature of public and private land and the contribution to sage- grouse conservation made by working ranches.
PURPOSE OF THE CCA. The primary purpose of this CCA is to: • develop, coordinate, and implement conservation actions to reduce and/or eliminate known threats to the LPC and SDL within the current and historic range of both species in New Mexico, • support ongoing efforts to establish/re-establish and maintain viable populations of both species in currently occupied and suitable, but currently unoccupied habitats, • serve as a landscape-scale umbrella document for conservation measures implemented by CEHMM and Participating Cooperators, • encourage development and protection of suitable LPC and SDL habitat by giving Participating Cooperators incentives to implement specific conservation measures (as described in their CP), and • provide Participating Cooperators a high degree of certainty that the conservation measures agreed to in the CP would be considered in the biological opinion, and thus, would reduce the likelihood of additional land use restrictions to Participating Cooperators that might otherwise apply should the LPC and/or SDL become listed.
