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Master Plan Update (pdf) - Lansing/Capital City Airport

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<strong>Capital</strong> Region <strong>Airport</strong> Authority<br />

<strong>Capital</strong> <strong>City</strong> <strong>Airport</strong> <strong>Master</strong> <strong>Plan</strong> <strong>Update</strong><br />

through all or a significant portion of its range. Federal endangered and threatened species are<br />

afforded legal protection under the ESA, as amended. Threatened species are those members of<br />

the animal kingdom that are likely to become endangered within the foreseeable future. Candidate<br />

species are those members for which the USFWS has sufficient information on their biological<br />

status and threats to propose them as endangered or threatened under the ESA, but for which<br />

development of a proposed listing regulation is precluded by other higher priority listing activities.<br />

They are not afforded legal protection under the authorities of the Endangered Species Act;<br />

however, federal agencies are encouraged to consider potential impacts because the USFWS may<br />

proceed at anytime with listing actions for these species.<br />

The 1998 Environmental Assessment indicated one endangered species of plant, cattail sedge<br />

(Carex typhina), has been located on the <strong>Airport</strong> property. This was located in the northeast<br />

quadrant of the property and would be outside of the areas of the identified near-term projects.<br />

The Cattail Sedge is currently listed as a state-listed threatened species.<br />

Based on secondary-source data from the USFWS and MDNR, four federally listed species and 25<br />

state listed species were noted as being of possible occurrence in the immediate vicinity of <strong>Capital</strong><br />

<strong>City</strong> <strong>Airport</strong>. The four federal species identified by the USFWS are as follows:<br />

• Indiana bat* (Myotis sodalis – endangered)<br />

• Eastern massasauga rattlesnake, (Sistrurus catenatus catenatus – species of concern)<br />

• Prairie fringed orchid* (<strong>Plan</strong>tathera leuchophaea – threatened)<br />

• Copperbelly water snake* (Nerodia erythrogaster neglecta – threatened).<br />

The state listed species identified by the MDNR are as follows:<br />

• Cattail sedge (threatened)<br />

• Spotted turtle (Clemmys guttata – threatened)<br />

• Least shrew (Cryptotis parva – threatened)<br />

• White lady-slipper (Cypripedium candidum – threatened)<br />

• Dwarf spike-rush (Eleocharis parvula – threatened)<br />

• Showy orchis (Galearis spectabilis – threatened)<br />

• Goldenseal (Hydrastis candensis – threatened)<br />

• Prairie fringed orchid* (endangered)<br />

• King rail (Rallus elegans- endangered)<br />

• Olney’s bulrush (Scirpus olneyi – threatened)<br />

• Snow trillium (Trillium nivale – threatened)<br />

• Wholed pogonia (Istoria vertcillata – threatened)<br />

• Virginia flax (Linum virginianum – threatened)<br />

• Virginia bluebells (Mertensia virginica – threatened)<br />

• Indiana bat* (endangered)<br />

• Copperbelly water snake* (endangered)<br />

• False hop sedge ( Carex lupuliformis – threatened)<br />

• Raven’s-foot sedge (Carex crus-corvi – threatened)<br />

• Beak grass (Diarrhena americana – threatened)<br />

• Virginia water-horehound (Lycopus virginicus – threatened)<br />

• Red mulberry (Morus rubra – threatened)<br />

• Ginseng (Panax quinquefolius – threatened)<br />

• Bog bluegrass (Poa paludigena – threatened)<br />

• Small skullcap (Scutellaria parvula – threatened)<br />

Environmental Evaluation 5-8 Final

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