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Final Environmental Assessment: Sierra Pacific Land & Timber Comapny's Sierra Pacific Industries Forestland Management Program Habitat Conservation Plan and Safe Harbor Agreement: Sacramento River and Trinity River Basins, California
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Description:Sierra Pacific Land & Timber Company (SPL&T) is the largest private forest landowner in the state of California, with ownership currently encompassing approximately 1.79 million acres of timberland throughout the northern and central portions of the state. Sierra Pacific Industries (SPI) is the authorized representative and manager of SPL&T lands. Rivers and streams on portions of SPL&T lands in the Sacramento River and Trinity River basins currently provide habitat for anadromous salmonids, including species listed under the ESA. SPI forestland management activities have the potential to adversely affect fish species and their habitats that are listed, or may be at risk of listing, under the ESA.
SPL&T is applying to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) for an incidental take permit (ITP) under Endangered Species Act (ESA) Section 10(a)(1)(B) for a 50-year period. The ITP would authorize the incidental take of threatened Central Valley spring-run Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha), endangered Sacramento River winter-run Chinook salmon (O. tshawytscha), threatened California Central Valley steelhead (O. mykiss), and threatened Southern Oregon/Northern California Coast (SONCC) coho salmon (O. kisutch). Additionally, SPL&T’s ITP application includes Central Valley fall- and late fall-run Chinook salmon (O. tshawytscha), which are designated as species of concern by NMFS; the Upper Klamath/Trinity Rivers spring-run Chinook salmon (O. tshawytscha), which have been previously petitioned as threatened under the ESA and are currently petitioned for listing as threatened or endangered under the ESA and endangered under the California Endangered Species Act (CESA); and Klamath Mountains Province steelhead (O. mykiss), which have no current regulatory status. Collectively, these species are henceforth referred to as “Covered Species.”
SPL&T is also applying to NMFS for an enhancement of survival permit (ESP) under Section 10(a)(1)(A) of the ESA for a 50-year period. The ESP would authorize the potential future incidental take of species that NMFS proposes to reintroduce into rivers and streams on SPL&T lands that are upstream of constructed man-made barriers to anadromous fish in the Sacramento River and Trinity River basins during the permit term. Those species include Central Valley spring-run Chinook salmon, Sacramento River winter-run Chinook salmon, California Central Valley steelhead, and SONCC coho salmon.
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