Foundation 2002

From the Northwest Ecosystem Alliance
Proposal Drops National Forest Rules that Protect Wildlife :
In an effort to double the amount of logging in the Pacific Northwest's
old-growth forests, the Bush administration has worked out another deal
with the timber industry. This time the administration plans to
eliminate rules that protect the rare and sensitive plants and animals
that depend on the old forests of the Cascade and coastal mountains of
Washington, Oregon, and northern California. The "Survey and Manage"
rules require the government to conduct pre-logging surveys on national
forests and to protect the areas where rare and sensitive species are
found. The requirements have protected hundreds of sites across the
Northwest, including the largest known population of Larch Mountain
salamanders in the state as well as other species that literally run
the ecosystem. Without these rules, hundreds of species will face
extinction as their old-growth habitat is clearcut.

YELLOWSTONE GRIZZLY HABITAT CONSERVATION SCOPING:
On July 16, 2003, the Notice of Intent to prepare an environmental
impact statement was published in Federal Register Vol. 68, No. 136,
pages 41999 and 41220, for the proposal to amend six forest plans to
provide additional programmatic direction for management of grizzly
bear habitat security, developed sites, and livestock within the
Grizzly Bear Recovery Area. The 30-day comment period ended August 15,
2003. Interested parties have requested that the comment period be
extended so they can provide more substantive, researched comments. The
Forest Service has agreed to extend the comment period for an
additional 18 days until September 2, 2003.

ROADLESS RULE NOTICE OF PROPOSED RULEMAKING & TONGASS/CHUGACH ROADLESS
RULE EXEMPTION:
Notice is hereby given that the public comment period is being extended
for the advance notice of proposed rulemaking (ANPR) published on July
15, 2003 (68 FR 41864) to solicit public input concerning the
applicability of the roadless area conservation rule published on
January 12, 2001 (66 FR 3244) (the roadless rule), to both the Tongass
and the Chugach National Forests in Alaska. The original comment period
for this ANPR ended on August 14, 2003.

MOBILE BASIN LISTED MUSSELS PROPOSED CRITICAL HABITAT DEA:
We, the Fish and Wildlife Service, announce the availability of the
draft economic analysis for the proposed designation of critical
habitat for three threatened mussels and eight endangered mussels in
the Mobile River Basin. We also give notice of a public hearing. We are
reopening the comment period for the proposal to designate critical
habitat for these species to accommodate the public hearing and to
allow all interested parties to comment on the proposed rule and
associated draft economic analysis.

WHITE RIVER SPINEDACE SAFE HARBOR AGREEMENT:
Walter and Carrol Cripps (Applicant) have applied to the U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service (Service) for an enhancement of survival permit
pursuant to section 10(a)(1)(A) of the Endangered Species Act of 1973,
as amended (Act). The permit application includes a proposed Safe
Harbor Agreement (SHA) among the Applicant, Nevada Department of
Wildlife (NDOW), and the Service. The SHA provides for habitat
protection and the introduction of the White River Spinedace
(Lepidomeda albivallis) within approximately 3.5 acres of spring,
stream, and pond habitat on private property in White Pine County,
Nevada. The proposed duration of the SHA is for 5 years and the permit
is for 30 years.

ELDERBERRY LONGHORN BEETLE LOW-EFFECT HCP:
Mr. George Shimboff (Applicant) has applied to the U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service (we, Service) for a 1-year incidental take permit for
one covered species pursuant to section 10(a)(1)(B) of the Endangered
Species Act of 1973, as amended (Act). The application addresses the
potential for ``take'' of the threatened valley elderberry longhorn
beetle (Desmoncerus californicus dimorphus) associated with
construction of a swimming pool and perimeter fence, removal of an
interior fence, and landscaping within the remaining area of a 0.16-
acre partially developed parcel located on Christine Drive, Vacaville,
Solano County, California. A conservation program to minimize and
mitigate for the project activities would be implemented as described
in the proposed Shimboff Low Effect Habitat Conservation Plan (proposed
Plan), which would be implemented by the Applicant.

Editor's Note: This Federal Register notice is a particularly wonkish
but nevertheless a very important federal action and involves a renewed
effort to build a road and other transportation infrastructure in a
huge wildlife rich area and could impact a large number of plants and
animals, including the ESA listed Steller's eider and sea lion as well
as the imperiled Aleutian otter. Past efforts to build a road through
Izembek National Wildlife Refuge have been highly controversial and if
this latest attempt succeeds it would set a very bad precedent.
KING COVE ACCESS PROJECT DEIS:
The King Cove Health and Safety Act (Section 353) of the Omnibus
Consolidated and Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act of 1999
(Public Law 105-277) provided the Aleutians East Borough (AEB) with $20
million to construct a year-round marine-road transportation system
between the Cities of King Cove and Cold Bay, Alaska, on the Alaska
Peninsula. AEB proposes a 152-acre project consisting of a 17.2- mile
access road, two hovercraft ramps, and terminals located on the
Northeast Corner of Cold Bay and Cross Wind Cove, on the west side of
Cold Bay, and a hovercraft.

SHARK, SWORDFISH, TUNA MANAGEMENT:
NMFS will hold six public hearings to receive comments from fishery
participants and other members of the public regarding proposed shark
regulations and draft Amendment 1 to the Fishery Management Plan for
Atlantic Tunas, Swordfish and Sharks (Amendment 1). The proposed rule
for Amendment 1, published in the Federal Register on August 1, 2003,
and would change among other things, the rebuilding timeframe for LCS,
the commercial regulations, the recreational regulations, and implement
a number of measures to reduce bycatch. Additionally, Amendment 1 also
proposes updates to essential fish habitat (EFH) identifications for
sandbar, blacktip, finetooth, dusky, and nurse sharks.

HIGGINS' EYE PEARLY MUSSEL DRAFT REVISED RECOVERY PLAN:
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) announces availability for
public review of the draft revised recovery plan for the Higgins' eye
pearlymussel (Lampsilis higginsii), a species that is federally listed
as endangered under the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (Act). The
purpose of this plan is to recover this species so that it can be
removed from the list of Threatened and Endangered Species. This
species occurs in the Mississippi River and tributaries to the
Mississippi River in Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, and
Wisconsin.

FOREIGN SPECIES ESA ENHANCEMENT OF SURVIVAL PERMITS POLICY:
We, the Fish and Wildlife Service, (the FWS) announce a Draft Policy
for ``Enhancement of Survival'' permits for foreign species listed
under the Endangered Species Act of 1973, as amended (ESA). This policy
would provide guidance under which we will consider the issuance of
Section 10(a)(1)(A) enhancement-of-survival permits as incentives to
encourage conservation of foreign-listed species in the wild. Permits
to allow the import of foreign-listed species or their parts or
products would only be considered in certain limited situations if such
action enhances the survival of the species in the wild. Enhancement
must be demonstrated through support of a substantive conservation
program for that species in the range country with a positive benefit
for the species and/or its habitat.

LANDOWNER INCENTIVE PROGRAM GRANT PROPOSALS:
The Service is requesting proposals at this time under the Landowner
Incentive Program pending a Department of the Interior and Related
Agencies Appropriations Act 2004 allocation of funds for conservation
grants to States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, the
United States Virgin Islands, the Northern Mariana Islands, and
American Samoa (hereafter referred to collectively as States), and
Tribes.

KNEELAND PRAIRIE PENNY-CRESS RECOVERY PLAN:
We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, announce the availability of
the final Recovery Plan for Kneeland Prairie Penny-cress (Thlaspi
californicum). The plan includes specific criteria and measures to be
taken in order to effectively recover the species to the point where
delisting is warranted.

DOUBLE-CRESTED CORMORANT MANAGEMENT FEIS:
This notice advises the public of the availability of the Final
Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) on double-crested cormorant
management. The FEIS follows publication of a Draft Environmental
Impact Statement (DEIS) and a proposed rule, each of which had
extensive public comment periods. The FEIS analyzes the direct,
indirect, and cumulative impacts related to double-crested cormorant
management and provides the public with responses to comments received
on the DEIS.

IS IT NATURE OR DEVELOPMENT?: Irrigators and the Bureau of Reclamation
are presenting different explanations on the cause of "significant
reductions in channel width and other changes to the Platte River" to a
National Academy of Sciences panel which is "studying the science used
by the USFWS to designate the central and lower Platte River as
critical habitat for three birds - the whooping crane, least tern and
piping plover and a fish the pallid sturgeon" says the Casper Star-
Tribune 8/12. Irrigators maintain that "climactic change - alternating
wet and dry periods - may be responsible for perceived changes in the
river, not water development projects" as the BR claims. The hearings
come as Nebraska, Colorado and Wyoming are trying to hash out a
management plant "to increase river flows for endangered species while
maintaining water" supplies for farms and cities.

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