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9 <br />The Cottonwood Ranch Property has one identified bald eagle roosting area. This area <br />has been delineated (Figure 2) and will not be subjected to any clearing activities. All <br />planned developments in Section 4 of this Pian will be outside the known bald eagie ? <br />roosting area. As development and enhancement measures aze reviewed by the - <br />Oversight Committee the potential for impacts -on bald eagle roost and perch sites will <br />- be considered and minimized to the extent possible. While no mitigation of impacts to <br />_ bald eagle roost and perch sites is expected to be needed, if it becomes necessary, it <br />-would be considered a development and enhancement cost. <br />In addition, all commonly used perch trees and any other trees agreed to by the <br />Oversight Committee will be left standing as eagle perch sites, unless written clearance <br />is given by the FWS and NGPC to remove known perch trees. <br />3.7 Agricultural Uses <br />Objective: Restore agricultural areas to a more natural or historic state and utilize <br />agricultural practices to enhance the value of the Property for the target species. <br />There are currently approximately 240 acres of cultivated row crops and 50 acres of <br />alfalfa. Both of these crops are known to be used by foraging whooping cranes and will <br />be retained as cropland with the following stipulations: A) cropland may be altered in <br />areas necessary to connect historic swales; B) cropland may be converted to wetland <br />areas where such conversion is a restoration of identifiable wetlands or desirable to <br />restore drainage patterns on the Property; C) croplands may also be restored to native <br />prairie; D) any conversion of cropland to other habitat witl include an objective of <br />documenting use by target species. 4 <br />. The current grazing regime on the Property is to utilize an 80 acre warm season pasture <br />= as a calving area from approximately March tcr. May for 150 cows. The cow-calf pairs <br />are then allowed to access mosf of the remaining non-agricultural areas of the Property <br />from May until approximately October when they are removed. This grazing regime <br />creates low vegetation conditions desirable for whooping cranes but may reduce the <br />amount of biodiversity found on the Property. It also selects for cool season plant <br />species, which are able to grow before and after the grazing period. The Development <br />and Enhancement Oversight Committee will develop a grazing protocol. <br />3.8 Recreation, Education, Public Access <br />Objective: Provide for recreation, education, and public access while taking all <br />necessary precautions to reduce liability to NPPD and the Program. <br />NPPD will retain all access rights to the Property. NPPD agrees to allow access to the <br />Property for any development or enhancement, studies, survey work, research and/or <br />monitoring and education uses required by the Program. All such access to the Property <br />will be coordinated through NPPD.