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| 2017 Noxious Weed and Invasive Plant Treatment | Noxious weed and invasive plant treatments in ESA listed species habitat; Programmatic formal consultation for eight species. | Unpublished Material (ie reports, white paper, field worksheets) |
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| Applying and Interpreting Assessment, Inventory, and Monitoring (AIM) Data at the Field Office Level_Technical Note 455 | This technical note serves as a companion to BLM Technical Note 453, "Guide to Using AIM and LMF Data in Land Health Evaluations and Authorizations of Permitted Uses," by providing an example of using AIM data, along with other available data, to answer management questions at the field office level. | Case Study |
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| BCI-BLM Bats and Mines BMPs | BMPs for managing bats at mine sites. | Published Material or Subject Matter Website |
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| BCI-BLM Bats and Oil-Gas BMPs | Case Study |
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| Better Conservation More Efficiently: A Guide for Federal Agency Compliance with Section 7(a)(1) of the Endangered Species Act | This regional guide for section 7(a)(1) consultations and attached memo stress the importance of proactive, strategic, landscape-level planning in order to increase regulatory efficiency and streamline 7(a)(2) consultations for individual projects. To that end, the guide includes principles for the development of a 7(a)(1) program, criteria for meeting 7(a)(1) requirements, contents of a 7(a)(1) program, and the responsibilities of both the FWS and the action agency. | Unpublished Material (ie reports, white paper, field worksheets) |
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| BLM Guidelines for Implementing Greater Sage-grouse Habitat Objectives (supplement to WO IM 2018-25) | These guidelines supplement the BLM policy set forth in WO IM 2018-025 (effective until 9/30/2021). BLM state offices (SOs) must follow the steps described in the policy when evaluating, in an interdisciplinary setting, if there are data and science to use as alternatives to the indicators and/or values (desired conditions) found in the Habitat Objectives Table unless the applicable GRSG Plan outlines an alternative process. | Policy (note: rules yet not law) |
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| BLM Guidelines for Implementing the Sage-Grouse Habitat Assessment Framework (supplement to WO-IM 2018-21) | After calendar year 2018, a specific section of WO IM 2018-021 expired. This expired section provided guidance, and temporary accommodation, for scenarios where sage-grouse habitat assessments were required by policy but sage-grouse seasonal habitat mapping and/or fine-scale HAF boundaries were incomplete. This document provides new guidelines (to replace those that have expired) and reviews existing (non-expired) guidelines. New guidelines primarily address site-scale assessments. | Policy (note: rules yet not law) |
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| BLM National Policy for the Federal Advisory Committee Act | Any time a Federal agency intends to establish, control, or manage a group that gives advice as a group and has at least one member who is not a Federal, Tribal, State, or local government employee, the agency must comply with FACA and the related administrative guidelines developed by the General Services Administration (GSA). For the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), there are additional requirements for administering advisory committees covered in this resource. | Law or Regulation |
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| Endangered Species Act Document Library | Whether you are looking for a specific document pertaining to species listing, sections of the Endangered Species Act, or anything else related to Endangered Species policy, you can find it in the ESA document Library. General topics include: Endangered Species Act, Endangered Species Bulletin, Laws & Policies, Species, Candidate Conservation, Consultations, Grants, Habitat Conservation Plans (HCPs), Listing and Critical Habitat, Recovery, Working with Tribes, Permits, Partnerships, etc. | Published Material or Subject Matter Website |
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| Guide to Using AIM and LMF Data for Land Health Evaluations and Authorizations of Permitted Uses - Technical Note 453.PDF (PDF / 2.4 MB) | This technical note serves as a guide for using AIM data, along with other available data, to complete evaluations of land health and related authorizations of permitted uses as required by BLM policy (43 CFR Subpart 4180). | Case Study |
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| IAM NSHT Technical References, Methodology and Field Guide | The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) offers this Inventory, Assessment, and Monitoring Methodology and Field Guide to advance a consistent and repeatable approach for collecting resource integrated baseline data for these trails and trails of all kinds. |
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| Landscape-scale Restoration: Applications of Batched Programmatic Approaches to Right-Sizing Consultations to the Ecological Context and the Scope of the Actions | This paper provides several tools which may guide in the preparation of individual and programmatic section 7 products. | Unpublished Material (ie reports, white paper, field worksheets) |
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| Level 1 Team Guidance in Idaho | Example of operating guidelines for Level 1 Team. Also included are templates for making ESA determinations and documenting baseline habitat conditions for ESA-listed fish and plants. | Unpublished Material (ie reports, white paper, field worksheets) |
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| Long-Term Strategy for Streamlining Consultations under the Endangered Species Act in Arizona and New Mexico | This long-term strategy for streamlining section 7 consultations is intended to shorten consultation time frames and result in more scientifically and legally sound documents. This document describes tools, components, and processes that are important to streamlining consultations. | Unpublished Material (ie reports, white paper, field worksheets) |
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| Programmatic Consultation Guidance for Threatened and Endangered Species and Designated Critical Habitat | This document lays out a stepwise process for several types of consultations, such as conservation reviews and individual and programmatic section 7(a)(2) consultations. In addition, the paper provides specific guidance for emergency consultations and for consultations concerning experimental populations, proposed species and proposed critical habitat, and candidate species. | Unpublished Material (ie reports, white paper, field worksheets) |
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| Restoration/Recovery Projects (RRP) Streamlining Guidance | This guidance package includes a suite of tools for Restoration/Recovery Project (RRP) streamlining, including templates for BAs and BOs, a training video, and a Q&A. To be eligible for the expedited consultation process, a proposed Federal action must meet several criteria as enumerated in the attached RRP guidance document. | Unpublished Material (ie reports, white paper, field worksheets) |
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| Section 7 Consultation Guidance for Preparing a Biological Assessment | This site described elements of a proper BA. Use it to help guide document analyses to determine whether their actions may affect listed or propose species, designated species, and proposed critical habitat (aka, protected resources). This is a requirement of Federal agencies. Federal agency must 1) request USFWS concurrence with a “may affect, but not likely to adversely affect” finding; or 2) request initiation of formal consultation. Both require a written analysis to be submitted. | Published Material or Subject Matter Website |
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