Land Management Plan - Part 2 Los Padres National Forest Strategy

Land Management Plan Part 2
Los Padres National Forest Strategy
Lands 2 - Non-Recreation Special Use Authorizations
Administer special-use authorizations (SUAs) to standard:
• Upon termination of SUA restore areas to a specified condition.
September 2005
• Administer existing SUAs in threatened, endangered, proposed, candidate, and sensitive
species habitats to ensure they avoid or minimize impacts to threatened, endangered,
proposed, candidate, and sensitive species and their habitats.
• Work with special-use authorization holders to better administer National Forest System land
and reduce administrative cost.
• Maximize opportunities to co-locate facilities and minimize encumbrance of National Forest
System land.
• Phase out groundwater and surface water diversion authorizations that adversely
affect
threatened, endangered, proposed, candidate, and sensitive species.
• Work
to amend existing authorizations as necessary to provide suitable water flows for
threatened, endangered, proposed, candidate, and sensitive
species in threatened, endangered,
proposed, candidate, and sensitive species habitat that has been degraded by water
withdrawals.
• Where overhead transmission lines occur in high-use California condor flyways work with
utility companies or authorization holders to install high-visibility or avoidance devices and
raptor guards on poles and other structures potentially used as perching sites by California
condors.
• For special-use authorization holders operating within threatened, endangered, proposed,
candidate, and sensitive species key and occupied habitats, develop and provide information
and education (e.g., workshops, annual meetings) on ways to avoid and minimize effects of
their activities on occupied threatened, endangered, proposed, candidate, and sensitive
species habitat.
• Use signing, barriers, or other suitable measures to protect threatened, endangered, proposed,
candidate, and sensitive species, and key and occupied habitats within special-use
authorization areas.
• Utilize existing designated communication sites as noted in Appendix C.
Linked to National Strategic Plan
Goal 6 - Mission related work in addition to that which supports the agency goals,
objective 3, and
Goal 4 - Help meet energy resource needs, objective 1.
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