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; <br />, <br />9. Future Section 7 consultations will consider actions and accomplishments of this <br />Program as reasonable and prudent alternatives that allow future federal actions to avoid <br />jeopardy and adverse modification of critical habitat in the Big Bend area. <br />2.1 LAND MANAGEMENT <br />Along with other Program elements, the land management element will create the conditions <br />needed to restore and conserve habitat for threatened and endangered species. Implementation <br />of the land management element will include acquisition of habitat, using a variety of inethods, <br />including voluntary agreements and where necessary, purchase of land. Land acquisition will <br />be made only on a voluntary basis. Land Management may include acquisition and protection <br />of existing lands to provide habitat for threatened and endangered species and the acquisition of <br />land which could be restored to meet threatened and endangered species needs. 2.1.1 The 7oint Study B1ock/Segment Plan <br /> <br />-Guidance for threatened and endangered species habitat management along the central Platte <br />River was developed by the Platte River Management 7oint Study (See Appendix 6.2). This <br />guidance recommended that management be done in large contiguous parcels of terrestrial and <br />aquatic habitats between bridge crossings along the Platte R.iver between Lexington and <br />Chapman, Nebraska, refened to as blocks and segments. The guidance included the <br />approximate locations, sizes, and features of these habitat blocks and segments. <br />The blocks and segments would be located between the 10 bridge crossings from Chapman to <br />Lexington, Nebraska. Between ea.ch bridge, there would be a habitat complex of open river <br />channel and wetland meadow, the principal habitats to be conserved. The Block/Segment Plan <br />entails an estimated 29,000 acres. A segment would include: <br />2,000 acres of wet meadows <br />250 acres of riverine roost <br />7