8111

• UCREFRP Catalog Number: 8111
• Author: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and National Marine Fisheries Service.
• Title: Endangered Species Consultation Handbook
• USFW Year: 1998.
• USFW - Doc Type: Procedures for Conducting Consultation and Conference Activities Under Section 7 of the Endangered Species Act.
• Copyright Material: NO

* * * * * * Final ESA Section 7 Consultation Handbook, March 1998 * * * * * *
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• resilience to allow for the potential recovery from endangerment. Said another way, survival
is the condition in which a species continues to exist into the future while retaining the
potential for recovery. This condition is characterized by a species with a sufficient
population, represented by all necessary age classes, genetic heterogeneity, and number of
sexually mature individuals producing viable offspring, which exists in an environment
providing all requirements for completion of the species' entire life cycle, including
reproduction, sustenance, and shelter. [Clarification of usage]
Take - to harass, harm, pursue, hunt, shoot, wound, kill, trap, capture, or collect or attempt to
engage in any such conduct. [ESA §3(19)] Harm is further defined by FWS to include
significant habitat modification or degradation that results in death or injury to listed species
by significantly impairing behavioral patterns such as breeding, feeding, or sheltering.
Harass is defined by FWS as actions that create the likelihood of injury to listed species to
such an extent as to significantly disrupt normal behavior patterns which include, but are not
limited to, breeding, feeding or sheltering. [50 CFR § 17.3]
Threatened species - any species which is likely to become an endangered species within the
foreseeable future throughout all or a significant portion of its range. [ESA §3(20)]
Unoccupied critical habitat - critical habitat not occupied (i.e., not permanently or
seasonally occupied) by the listed species at the time of the project analysis. The habitat may
• be suitable, but the species has been extirpated from this portion of its range. Conversely,
critical habitat may have been designated in areas unsuitable for the species, but restorable to
suitability with proper management, if the area is necessary to either stabilize the population
or assure eventual recovery of a listed species. As recovery proceeds, this formerly
unoccupied habitat may become occupied.
Some designated, unoccupied habitat may never be occupied by the species, but was
designated since it is essential for conserving the species because it maintains factors
constituting the species' habitat. For example, critical habitat may be designated for an
upstream area maintaining the hydrology of the species' habitat downstream. [Clarification
of usage]
Wildlife - See "fish or wildlife".
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