Take Minimization Measures Sample Clauses

Take Minimization Measures. To avoid unnecessary mortality of leopard frogs or deterioration of leopard frog habitat at aquatic sites on a Participating Neighbor’s lands, including stock tanks that support Chiricahua leopard frogs, Participating Neighbors agree: (i) Where practicable, to implement stock tank maintenance regimes, schedules, or techniques that maintain a portion of the tank as escape cover for resident frogs during maintenance activities; or, subject to the Participating Neighbor’s consent (b) to grant access to appropriate (e.g., Service, AGFD, or NMDGF) personnel to collect and hold leopard frogs from the tank during tank maintenance operations and to return the frogs to the tank upon completion of maintenance activities, and, in this event, to provide 30 days notice to such personnel prior to commencement of maintenance operations. Maintenance resulting from an emergency situation will be defined and treated consistent with the same situations for a Participating Landowner, described in section 2.5.4, paragraph (A)(ii). (ii) To manage livestock grazing in and around stock tanks supporting leopard frogs so as to avoid destruction or excessive deterioration of leopard frog habitat. This will include: 1) avoidance of excessive trampling in and around the tank, especially during frog breeding periods when egg masses are easily destroyed (i.e., March through April, September, and after heavy summer rains); 2) appropriate management of the numbers and seasonality of livestock use; and 3) any other appropriate measures to which the Participating Neighbor consents. All such measures must be compatible with necessary ranching operations. (iii) To minimize or prevent the introduction of non-native aquatic predators into leopard frog habitat by: 1) committing not to knowingly engage in releases of bullfrogs, non- native predatory fish, crayfish, or tiger salamanders into occupied leopard frog habitat on participating properties and not to knowingly permit any other person or organization to engage in such releases on participating properties; 2) subject to the Participating Neighbor’s discretion, reporting any observed occurrences of such species in leopard frog habitat on their properties to the Malpai; and 3) subject to the Participating Neighbor’s consent, permitting access to ranch lands by appropriate (e.g., Service, AGFD, or NMDGF) personnel to implement control programs for these species. Note, however, that only measure 1) above is a requirement of the Agreement.